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Recent discoveries have spurred the theoretical prediction and experimental realization of novel materials that have topological properties arising from band inversion. Such topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 M. Kotulla , U. Zülicke

Kagome materials are known for hosting exotic quantum states, including quantum spin liquids, charge density waves, and unconventional superconductivity. The search for kagome monolayers is driven by their ability to exhibit neat and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Renhong Wang , Cong Wang , Ruixuan Li , Deping Guo , Jiaqi Dai , Canbo Zong , Weihan Zhang , Wei Ji

Recently, it was pointed out that all chiral crystals with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can be Kramers Weyl semimetals (KWSs) which possess Weyl points pinned at time-reversal invariant momenta. In this work, we show that all achiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ying-Ming Xie , Xue-Jian Gao , Xiao Yan Xu , Cheng-Ping Zhang , Jin-Xin Hu , Jason Z. Gao , K. T. Law

Special arrangements of atoms with more than one atom per unit cell, including honeycomb or kagome (woven bamboo mat) lattices, can host propagating excitations with non-trivial topology as defined by their evolution along closed paths in…

Optical lattices play a versatile role in advancing our understanding of correlated quantum matter. The recent implementation of orbital degrees of freedom in chequerboard and hexagonal optical lattices opens up a new thrust towards…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-16 Kai Sun , W. Vincent Liu , Andreas Hemmerich , S. Das Sarma

Topological semimetals are gapless states of matter which have robust surface states and interesting electromagnetic responses. In this paper, we consider the electromagnetic response of gapless phases in $3+1$-dimensions with line nodes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy , Taylor L. Hughes

By considering the topology of chiral crystals a new type of massless fermions, connected with giant arc-like surface states, are predicted. Such Kramers-Weyl fermions should manifest in a wide variety of chiral materials

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Chandra Shekhar

Discoveries of topological states and topological materials reshape our understanding of physics and materials over the last 15 years. First-principles calculations have been playing a significant role in bridging the theory of topology and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-25 Jiewen Xiao , Binghai Yan

Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides - specifically twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ - have recently emerged as a versatile platform for strongly correlated and topological phases of matter. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Bohao Li , Wen-Xuan Qiu , Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald

In topological semimetals such as Weyl, Dirac, and nodal-line semimetals, the band gap closes at points or along lines in k space which are not necessarily located at high-symmetry positions in the Brillouin zone. Therefore, it is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-09 Motoaki Hirayama , Ryo Okugawa , Shuichi Murakami

Weyl semimetals are extraordinary systems where exotic phenomena such as Fermi arcs, pseudo-gauge fields and quantum anomalies arise from topological band degeneracy in crystalline solids for electrons and metamaterials for photons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Li Luo , Hai-Xiao Wang , Bin Jiang , Ying Wu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Feng Li , Jian-Hua Jiang

Graphene, a two-dimensional crystal made of carbon atoms, provides a new and unexpected bridge between low and high-energy physics. The field has evolved very fast and very good reviews are already available in the literature. Graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alberto Cortijo , Francisco Guinea , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

Topological phases of matter are one of the hallmarks of quantum condensed matter physics. One of their striking features is a bulk-boundary correspondence wherein the topological nature of the bulk manifests itself on boundaries via exotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-17 Roberto Bondesan , Zohar Ringel

Topological insulators are quantum materials that have an insulating bulk state and a topologically protected metallic surface state with spin and momentum helical locking and a Dirac-like band structure. Unique and fascinating electronic…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-21 Zengji Yue , Xiaolin Wang , Min Gu

This paper provides a pedagogical introduction to recent developments in geometrical and topological band theory following the discovery of graphene and topological insulators. Amusingly, many of these developments have a connection to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 J. Cayssol , J. -N. Fuchs

The rise of topological insulators in recent years has broken new ground both in the conceptual cognition of condensed matter physics and the promising revolution of the electronic devices. It also stimulates the explorations of more…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianfeng Wang , Na Wang , Huaqing Huang , Wenhui Duan

Since the prediction and observation of topological Weyl semimetals (chiral TSMs), there have been enormous efforts to characterize further condensed matter realizations of chiral fermions. These efforts were dramatically accelerated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Justin Schirmann , Adolfo G. Grushin , Benjamin J. Wieder

Condensed matter physics continues to seek new frustrated quantum materials that not only deepen our understanding of fundamental physical phenomena but also hold promise for transformative technologies. In this review article, we highlight…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-01 J. Khatua , Kwang-Yong Choi

Quantum materials governed by emergent topological fermions have become a cornerstone of physics. Dirac fermions in graphene form the basis for moir\'e quantum matter, and Dirac fermions in magnetic topological insulators enabled the…

Weyl semimetals and higher-order topological insulators represent two fundamental yet distinct classes of topological matter. While both have been extensively studied in classical-wave systems, their coexistence and controllable transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Yu-Hong Han , Yi Li , Feng Mei , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia