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At partial filling of a flat band, strong electronic interactions may favor gapped states harboring emergent topology with quantized Hall conductivity. Emergent topological states have been found in partially filled Landau levels and…

A hierarchical ordering is demonstrated for the periodic orbits in a strongly coupled multidimensional Hamiltonian system, namely the hydrogen atom in crossed electric and magnetic fields. It mirrors the hierarchy of broken resonant tori…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Stephan Gekle , Jörg Main , Thomas Bartsch , T. Uzer

The class of topological semimetals comprises a large pool of compounds. Together they provide a wide platform to realize exotic quasiparticles for example Dirac, nodal line Dirac and Weyl fermions. In this letter, we report the Berry…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Nitesh Kumar , Kaustuv Manna , Yanpeng Qi , Shu-Chun Wu , Lei Wang , Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser , Chandra Shekhar

We show that Berry's geometrical (topological) phase for circular quantum dots with an odd number of electrons is equal to \pi and that eigenvalues of the orbital angular momentum run over half-integer values. The non-zero value of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. D. Mur , N. B. Narozhny , A. N. Petrosyan , Yu. E. Lozovik

We establish an analytic low-energy theory describing higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) phases in quasicrystalline systems. We apply this to a model consisting of two stacked Haldane models with oppositely propagating edge modes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Stephen Spurrier , Nigel R. Cooper

We explore a phenomenological phase diagram for the magnetic helical state with 90$^{\circ}$ turn angle between neighboring spins in the external magnetic field. Such state is formed by the Eu spin layers in the superconducting iron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-04 A. E. Koshelev

Topological superconductors, such as noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, exhibit protected zero-energy surface states, which possess an intricate helical spin structure. We show that this nontrival spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-10 Johannes S. Hofmann , Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

We study the electronic surface states of the semiconducting alloy BiSb. Using a phenomenological tight binding model we show that the Fermi surface of the 111 surface states encloses an odd number of time reversal invariant momenta (TRIM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Layered cobaltates embody novel realizations of correlated quantum matter on a spin-1/2 triangular lattice. We report a high-resolution systematic photoemission study of the insulating cobaltates (Na1/2CoO2 and K1/2CoO2). Observation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Qian , L. Wray , D. Hsieh , D. Wu , L. J. Luo , N. L. Wang , A. Fedorov , R. J. Cava , L. Viciu , M. Z. Hasan

Spin-momentum locking in a semiconductor device with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a fundamental goal of nanoscale spintronics and an important prerequisite for the formation of Majorana bound states. Such a helical state is predicted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 S. Heedt , N. Traverso Ziani , F. Crépin , W. Prost , St. Trellenkamp , J. Schubert , D. Grützmacher , B. Trauzettel , Th. Schäpers

We study signatures of magnetic quantum oscillations in three-dimensional nodal line semimetals at zero temperature. The extended nature of the degenerate bands can result in a Fermi surface geometry with topological genus one, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Hui Yang , Roderich Moessner , Lih-King Lim

Nodal-line semimetals are topological semimetals in which band touchings form nodal lines or rings. Around a loop that encloses a nodal line, an electron can accumulate a nontrivial $\pi$ Berry phase, so the phase shift in the Shubnikov-de…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Cequn Li , C. M. Wang , Bo Wan , Xiangang Wan , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

In the search of topological superconductors, nailing down the Fermiology of the normal state is as crucial a prerequisite as unraveling the superconducting pairing symmetry. In particular, the number of time-reversal-invariant momenta in…

We predict that in a twisted homobilayer of transition-metal dichalcogenide MoS$_2$, spin-orbit coupling in the conduction band states from $\pm K$ valleys can give rise to moir\'{e} flat bands with nonzero Chern numbers in each valley. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Benjamin T. Zhou , Shannon Egan , Marcel Franz

Based on the first-principles calculations, we theoretically propose topologically non-trivial states in a recently experimentally discovered superconducting material CaSn$_3$. When the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is ignored, the material is…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-28 Sunny Gupta , Rinkle Juneja , Ravindra Shinde , Abhishek K. Singh

Topological magnetic textures confined to two-dimensional (2D) non-orientable manifolds exhibit behaviors absent in planar systems. We investigate bimerons on M\"obius surfaces and show that the lack of global orientation alters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Carlos Saji , Mario A. Castro , Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Eduardo Saavedra , Alvaro S. Nunez , Roberto E. Troncoso

Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional topological materials where two bands touch at even number of points in the Brillouin zone. In this work we study a zincblende lattice model realizing a time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetal.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Teemu Ojanen

A series of asymmetric dimers with an odd number of atoms in the spacer were found to form different types of twisted structures despite being achiral. The formation of a variety of helical structures is accompanied by a gradual freezing of…

The noncollinear cycloidal magnetic order breaks the inversion symmetry in CaMn$_{7}$O$_{12}$, generating one of the largest spin-orbit driven ferroelectric polarizations measured to date. In this Letter, the microscopic origin of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 Jin Soo Lim , Diomedes Saldana-Greco , Andrew M. Rappe

We study the properties of a thin film of topological insulator material. We treat the coupling between helical states at opposite surfaces of the film in the properly-adapted tunneling approximation, and show that the tunneling matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Mahmoud M. Asmar , Daniel E. Sheehy , Ilya Vekhter