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The topology of insulators is usually revealed through the presence of gapless boundary modes: this is the so-called bulk-boundary correspondence. However, the many-body wavefunction of a crystalline insulator is endowed with additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Sander H. Kooi , Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

We establish a quantitative bulk-boundary correspondence in interacting topological insulators by relating many-body topological invariants to characteristic degeneracy structures in the entanglement spectrum. Focusing on generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Kiran Babasaheb Estake , Dibyendu Roy

We focus on a scenario of non-Hermitian bulk--boundary correspondence that uses a topological invariant defined in a bulk geometry under a modified periodic boundary condition. Although this has succeeded in describing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Chihiro Ishii , Yositake Takane

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

Topological materials (TMs) are well-known for their topological protected properties. Phononic system has the advantage of direct observation and engineering of topological phenomena on the macroscopic scale. For the inverse design of 3D…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jiachen Luo , Zongliang Du , Hui Chen , Xianggui Ding , Chang Liu , Weisheng Zhang , Xu Guo

In this paper, we introduce a variation of the notion of topological phase reflecting metric structure of the position space. This framework contains not only periodic and non-periodic systems with symmetries in Kitaev's periodic table but…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Yosuke Kubota

Strongly correlated analogues of topological insulators have been explored in systems with purely on-site symmetries, such as time-reversal or charge conservation. Here, we use recently developed tensor network tools to study a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Brayden Ware , Itamar Kimchi , S. A. Parameswaran , Bela Bauer

The chiral hinge modes are the key feature of a second order topological insulator in three dimensions. Here we propose a quadrupole index in combination of a slab Chern number in the bulk to characterize the flowing pattern of chiral hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Bo Fu , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

The discovery and realization of topological insulators, a phase of matter which hosts metallic boundary states when the $d$-dimension insulating bulk is confined to ($d-1$)-dimensions, led to several potential applications. Recently, it…

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

The bulk-boundary correspondence, which relates topological properties of a material in the bulk to the presence of robust modes localized on the edge, is at the core of the now mature field of topological wave physics. More recently, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Renaud Cote , Marc Pachebat , Antonin Coutant

A definition of topological phases of density matrices is presented. The topological invariants in case of both noninteracting and interacting systems are extended to nonzero temperatures. Influence of electron interactions on topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-03 Damian Zdulski , Krzysztof Byczuk

Crystalline symmetry can be used to predict bulk and surface properties of topological phases. For non-interacting cases, symmetry-eigenvalue analysis of Bloch states at high symmetry points in the Brillouin zone simplifies the calculation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Saavanth Velury , Yoonseok Hwang , Taylor L. Hughes

Topological insulators in three spatial dimensions are known to possess a precise bulk/boundary correspondence, in that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the 5 classes characterized by bulk topological invariants and Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Denis Bernard , Eun-Ah Kim , André LeClair

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

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Jui-Hui Chung , Jacob Shapiro

Higher-order topological insulators have triggered great interests because of exhibitions of non-trivial bulk topology on lower-dimensional boundaries like corners and hinges. While such interesting phases have been investigated in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ya-Jie Wu , Wen He , Ning Li , Zhitong Li , Junpeng Hou

The mathematical field of topology has become a framework to describe the low-energy electronic structure of crystalline solids. A typical feature of a bulk insulating three-dimensional topological crystal are conducting two-dimensional…

A density-based topology optimization framework is developed to manipulate characteristic modes of conducting surfaces. The adjoint sensitivity analysis provides an efficient computation of the material gradient utilized by the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Jonas Tucek , Miloslav Capek , Lukas Jelinek

The effect of interactions on topological insulators and superconductors remains, to a large extent, an open problem. Here, we describe a framework for classifying phases of one-dimensional interacting fermions, focusing on spinless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-20 Ari M. Turner , Frank Pollmann , Erez Berg

The Bloch wave functions have been playing a crucial role in the diagnosis of topological phases in non-interacting systems. However, the Bloch waves are no longer applicable in the presence of finite Coulomb interaction and alternative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-26 Heqiu Li , Hae-Young Kee , Yong Baek Kim