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Topological insulators are materials with a bulk excitation gap generated by the spin orbit interaction, and which are different from conventional insulators. This distinction is characterized by Z_2 topological invariants, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Topological Insulators (TIs) present an interesting materials platform for nanoscale, high frequency devices because they support high mobility, low scattering electronic transport within confined surface states. However, a robust…

One of the main goals and challenges of materials discovery is to find the best candidates for each interest property or application. Machine learning rises in this context to efficiently optimize this search, exploring the immense…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-04 Gabriel R. Schleder , Bruno Focassio , Adalberto Fazzio

The search for inversion asymmetric topological insulators (IATIs) persists as an effect for realizing new topological phenomena. However, so for only a few IATIs have been discovered and there is no IATI exhibiting a large band gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-02 Yandong Ma , Liangzhi Kou , Binghai Yan , Chengwang Niu , Ying Dai , Thomas Heine

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Highly crystalline and easily feasible topological insulator-superconductor (TI-SC) heterostructures are crucial for the development of practical topological qubit devices. The optimal superconducting layer for TI-SC heterostructures should…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Renjie Xie , Min Ge , Shaozhu Xiao , Jiahui Zhang , Jiachang Bi , Xiaoyu Yuan , Hee Taek Yi , Baomin Wang , Seongshik Oh , Yanwei Cao , Xiong Yao

Topological insulators (TIs) represent a novel quantum state of matter, characterized by edge or surface-states, showing up on the topological character of the bulk wave functions. Allowing electrons to move along their surface, but not…

Photonic topological insulators (PTIs) have been widely studied due to the robustness of energy transport via supported edge modes immune to structural disorder. In this work, a topological gap waveguide is constructed by introducing line…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Yan Ren , Hai Lin , Rui Zhou , Xintong Shi , Jing Jin , Y. Liu

In the past few years there has been a surge in the material science engineering in order to synthesize bulk insulating and surface metallic Topological Insulating (TI) materials. This quest is not only theoretically important but also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-10 Sourabh Singh , R K Gopal , Jit Sarkar , C. Mitra

Topological insulators (TIs) are expected to be a promising platform for novel quantum phenomena, whose experimental realizations require sophisticated devices. In this Technical Review, we discuss four topics of particular interest for TI…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Oliver Breunig , Yoichi Ando

Robustness against small perturbations is a crucial feature of topological properties. This robustness is both a source of theoretical interest and a drive for technological applications, but presents a challenge when looking for new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Cyrill Bösch , Tena Dubček , Frank Schindler , Andreas Fichtner , Marc Serra-Garcia

Topological materials host fascinating low dimensional gapless states at the boundary. As a prominent example, helical topological edge states (TESs) of two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs) and their stacked three-dimensional (3D)…

The unique surface edge states make topological insulators a primary focus among different applications. In this article, we synthesized a large single crystal of Niobium(Nb)-doped Bi2Se3 topological insulator (TI) with a formula…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Prince Sharma1 , M. M Sharma , Mahesh Kumar , V. P. S Awana

Topological insulators and semimetals as well as unconventional iron-based superconductors have attracted major recent attention in condensed matter physics. Previously, however, little overlap has been identified between these two vibrant…

Crystalline symmetries play an important role in the classification of band structures, and the rich variety of spatial symmetries in solids leads to various topological crystalline phases (TCPs). However, compared with topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Feng Tang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xiangang Wan

Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave functions. This review presents a pedagogical account on…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-04 Yoichi Ando

Gapless boundary modes at the interface between topologically distinct regions are one of the most salient manifestations of topology in physics. Metallic boundary states of time-reversal-invariant topological insulators (TIs), a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-14 Hyungjun Lee , Oleg V. Yazyev

Topological insulators (TIs) are an important family of quantum materials that exhibit a Dirac point (DP) in the surface band structure but have a finite band gap in bulk. A large degree of spin-orbit interaction and low bandgap is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-22 Thomas K. Reid , S. Pamir Alpay , Alexander V. Balatsky , Sanjeev K. Nayak

Time-periodic external drives have emerged as a powerful tool to artificially create topological phases of matter. Prime examples are Floquet topological insulators (FTIs), where a gapped bulk supports in-gap edge states, protected against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Oleksandr Balabanov , Henrik Johannesson

Topological insulators (TIs) have the singular distinction of being electronic insulators while harboring metallic, conductive surfaces. In ordinary materials, defects such as cracks and deformations are barriers to electrical conduction,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-30 S. Wolgast , Y. S. Eo , Ç. Kurdak , D. -J. Kim , Z. Fisk