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We demonstrate that rotation symmetry is not a necessary requirement for the existence of fractional corner charges in Cn-symmetric higher-order topological crystalline insulators. Instead, it is sufficient to have a latent rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 L. Eek , M. Röntgen , A. Moustaj , C. Morais Smith

The quantum nature of electron spin is crucial for establishing topological invariants in real materials. Since the spin does not in general commute with the Hamiltonian, some of the topological features of the material can be extracted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-08 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

We study topological properties of the Bose-Hubbard model with repulsive interactions in a one-dimensional optical superlattice. We find that the Mott insulator states of the single-component (two-component) Bose-Hubbard model under…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Y. -H. Chan , L. -M. Duan

We construct a topological invariant that classifies density matrices of symmetry-protected topological orders in two-dimensional fermionic systems. As it is constructed out of the previously introduced Uhlmann phase, we refer to it as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-26 O. Viyuela , A. Rivas , M. A. Martin-Delgado

In this letter we show how the topological number of a static Hamiltonian can be measured from a dynamical quench process. We focus on a two-band Chern insulator in two-dimension, for instance, the Haldane model, whose dynamical process can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-10 Ce Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinlong Yu , Hui Zhai

Chern insulator phase is shown to emerge in two-dimensional arrays of polariton rings where time-reversal symmetry is broken due to the application of an out-of-plane magnetic field. The interplay of Zeeman splitting with the photonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 V. K. Kozin , I. V. Iorsh , A. V. Nalitov , I. A. Shelykh

Recent progress in spintronics within the paradigm of altermagnets (AMs) opens new avenues for next-generation electronic device design. Here, we establish a spin-corner locking mechanism that generates second-order topological states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ning-Jing Yang , Zhigao Huang , Jian-Min Zhang

We study second-order topological insulators and semimetals characterized by chiral symmetry. We investigate topological phase transitions of a model for construction of the two-dimensional second-order topological insulators protected only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryo Okugawa , Shin Hayashi , Takeshi Nakanishi

This paper is a survey of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued invariant of topological insulators used in condensed matter physics. The $\mathbb{Z}$-valued topological invariant, which was originally called the TKNN invariant in physics, has now been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Dan Li , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

Recent experimental advances in controlling dissipation have brought about unprecedented flexibility in engineering non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in open classical and quantum systems. A particular interest centers on the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Zongping Gong , Yuto Ashida , Kohei Kawabata , Kazuaki Takasan , Sho Higashikawa , Masahito Ueda

We introduce new three-dimensional topological phases of two-band models using the Pontryagin-Thom construction. In symmetry class A these are the infinitely many Hopf-Chern topological insulators, which are hybrids of layered Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Ricardo Kennedy

We apply ideas from $C^*$-algebra to the study of disordered topological insulators. We extract certain almost commuting matrices from the free Fermi Hamiltonian, describing band projected coordinate matrices. By considering topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 M. B. Hastings , T. A. Loring

We study non-interacting electrons in disordered materials which exhibit a spectral gap, in each of the ten Altland--Zirnbauer symmetry classes, in all space dimensions. We define an appropriate space of Hamiltonians and a topology on it so…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jui-Hui Chung , Jacob Shapiro

A peculiar feature of the majority of three dimensional topological insulator surface states studied experimentally thus far, namely their particle-hole asymmetry, makes quantum oscillations (Shubnikov de Haas and de Haas van Alphen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Anthony R. Wright

Symmetries play an essential role in identifying and characterizing topological states of matter. Here, we classify topologically two-dimensional (2D) insulators and semimetals with vanishing spin-orbit coupling using time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix , Cristiane Morais Smith

We study one-dimensional, interacting, gapped fermionic systems described by variants of the Peierls-Hubbard model and characterize their phases via a topological invariant constructed out of their Green's functions. We demonstrate that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-19 Salvatore R. Manmana , Andrew M. Essin , Reinhard M. Noack , Victor Gurarie

Topological insulators are new states of matter in which the topological phase originates from symmetry breaking. Recently, time-reversal invariant topological insulators were demonstrated for classical wave systems, such as acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Yifan Zhu , Yugui Peng , Xudong Fan , Jing Yang , Bin Liang , Xuefeng Zhu , Jianchun Cheng

We present a theoretical investigation of electron states hosted by magnetic domain walls on the 3D topological insulator surface. The consideration includes the domain walls with distinct vectorial and spatial textures. The study is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 I. P. Rusinov , V. N. Men'shov , E. V. Chulkov

While topological phases have been extensively studied in amorphous systems in recent years, it remains unclear whether the random nature of amorphous materials can give rise to higher-order topological phases that have no crystalline…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-15 Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

The identification of the topological invariant of a topological system is crucial in experiments. However, due to the inherent non-Hermitian features, such determination is notably challenging in non-Hermitian systems. Here, we propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Hongfang Liu , Ming Lu , Shengdu Chai , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang