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We initiate a comprehensive study of a set of solutions of topologically massive gravity known as null warped anti-de Sitter spacetimes. These are pp-wave extensions of three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. We first perform a careful…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-30 Dionysios Anninos , Geoffrey Compère , Sophie de Buyl , Stéphane Detournay , Monica Guica

One-dimensional topological phases can host localized zero-energy modes that enable high-fidelity storage and manipulation of quantum information. Majorana fermion chains support a classic example of such a phase, having zero modes that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 Adam S. Jermyn , Roger S. K. Mong , Jason Alicea , Paul Fendley

We show that topological phases should be realizable in readily available and well studied heterostructures. In particular we identify a new class of topological materials which are well known in spintronics: helical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-26 Chien-Te Wu , Brandon M. Anderson , Wei-Han Hsiao , K. Levin

We study the Dirac quasiparticles in $d$-dimensional lattice systems of electrons in the presence of domain walls ($d=1$), vortices ($d=2$), or hedgehogs ($d=3$) of superconducting and/or insulating, order parameters, which appear as mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 Igor F. Herbut

Composite topological phases with intriguing topology like M${\"o}$bius strips emerge in sublattice symmetric non-Hermitian systems due to spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry at some parameter regime. While these phases have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Ritu Nehra , Dibyendu Roy

Two-dimensional compounds with non-zero Berry curvature are ideal systems to study exotic and technologically favourable thermoelectric and magnetoelectric properties. Within this class of materials, the topological trivial and non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Daniel Faílde , Daniel Baldomir

Recently, higher-order topological phases have endowed materials many exotic topological phases. For three-dimensional (3D) higher-order topologies, it hosts topologically protected 1D hinge states or 0D corner states, which extend the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Xiao Xiang , Xiang Ni , Feng Gao , Xiaoxiao Wu , Zhaoxian Chen , Yu-Gui Peng , Xue-Feng Zhu

The zero-mode corner states in the gap of two-dimensional non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model are robust to infinitesimal perturbations that preserve chiral symmetry. However, we demonstrate that this general belief is no longer valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Xue-Min Yang , Hao Lin , Jian Li , Jia-Ji Zhu , Jun-Li Zhu , Hong Wu

The transition from topologically nontrivial to a trivial state is studied by first-principles calculations on bulk zinc-blende type (Hg$_{1-x}$Zn$_x$)(Te$_{1-x}$S$_x$) disordered alloy series. The random chemical disorder was treated by…

Nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors have topologically nontrivial properties manifested by protected zero-energy surface states. Specifically, it was recently found that zero-energy surface flat bands of topological origin appear at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-13 Andreas P. Schnyder , P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm

Topological phases of matter are classified based on symmetries, with nonsymmorphic symmetries like glide reflections and screw rotations being of particular importance in the classification. In contrast to extensively studied glide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Yu-Liang Tao , Mou Yan , Mian Peng , Qiang Wei , Zhenxing Cui , Shengyuan A. Yang , Gang Chen , Yong Xu

Weyl superconductors feature Weyl points at zero energy in the three-dimensional (3D) Brillouin zone and arc states that connect the projections of these Weyl points on the surface. We report that higher-order Weyl superconductors can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 W. B. Rui , Song-Bo Zhang , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Andreas P. Schnyder , Björn Trauzettel , Z. D. Wang

The moduli space of gapped Hamiltonians that are in the same topological phase is an intrinsic object that is associated to the topological order. The topology of these moduli spaces is used recently in the construction of Floquet codes. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-11 Po-Shen Hsin , Zhenghan Wang

We derive the general form of the non-trivial geometric phase resulting from the unique combination of point group and time reversal symmetries. This phase arises e.g. when a magnetic adatom is adsorbed on a non-magnetic C$_n$ crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Marta Prada

Spatial control of topology is highly desirable for realizing tunable quantum functionalities in materials. Moir\'e superlattices formed by twisting van der Waals heterostructures provide a natural platform for spatially modulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Arjyama Bordoloi , Daniel Kaplan , Sobhit Singh

We have introduced a novel Majorana representation of S=1/2 spins using the Jordan-Wigner transformation and have shown that a generalized spin model of Kitaev defined on a brick-wall lattice is equivalent to a model of non-interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Yong Feng , Guang-Ming Zhang , Tao Xiang

A criterion to determine the existence of zero-energy edge states is discussed for a class of particle-hole symmetric Hamiltonians. A ``loop'' in a parameter space is assigned for each one-dimensional bulk Hamiltonian, and its topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Shinsei Ryu , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Using covariant phase space formulations for the natural topological invariants associated with the world-surface in closed string theory, we find that certain Wilson loops defined on the world-surface and that preserve topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Cartas-Fuentevilla

Symmetry plays an important role in the topological band theory. In contrary, study on the topological properties of the asymmetric systems is rather limited, especially in higher-dimensional systems. In this work, we explore a new theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Yunlin Li , Yufu Liu , Xuezhi Wang , Haoran Zhang , Xunya Jiang

One dimensional topological insulators are characterized by edge states with exponentially small energies. According to one generalization of topological phases to non-Hermitian systems, a finite system in a non-trivial topological phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Zhengzhi Ma , Hubert Saleur , Stephan Haas