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The spectral localizer consists of placing the Hamiltonian in a Dirac trap. For topological insulators its spectral asymmetry is equal to the topological invariants, providing a highly efficient tool for numerical computation. Here this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Hermann Schulz-Baldes , Tom Stoiber

Two-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk and conductive edge states protected by the nontrivial topology of the bulk electronic structure. They remain robust against moderate disorder until Anderson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Roberta Favata , Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

In recent years there has been a great interest in topological materials and in their fascinating properties. Topological band theory was initially developed for condensed matter systems, but it can be readily applied to arbitrary wave…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-05 Filipa R. Prudêncio , Mário G. Silveirinha

We consider Dirac-type operators on manifolds with boundary, and set out to determine all local smooth boundary conditions that give rise to (strongly) regular self-adjoint operators. By combining the general theory of boundary value…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Nadine Große , Alejandro Uribe , Hanne van den Bosch

Topological phases of materials are characterized by topological invariants that are conventionally calculated by different means according to the dimension and symmetry class of the system. For topological materials described by Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Gero von Gersdorff , Shahram Panahiyan , Wei Chen

Topological states of matter were first introduced for non-interacting fermions on an infinite uniform lattice. Since then, substantial effort has been made to generalize these concepts to more complex settings. Recently, local markers have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Anton Markov , Alexey Rubtsov

Designing stable cluster synchronization patterns is a fundamental challenge in nonlinear dynamics of networks with great relevance to understanding neuronal and brain dynamics. So far, cluster synchronization has been studied exclusively…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Ahmed A. A. Zaid , Ginestra Bianconi

The discovery that the band structure of electronic insulators may be topologically non-trivial has unveiled distinct phases of electronic matter with novel properties. Recently, mechanical lattices have been found to have similarly rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Noah P. Mitchell , Lisa M. Nash , Daniel Hexner , Ari Turner , William T. M. Irvine

Topological states of matter emergent as a new type of quantum phases, which can be distinguished by their associated topological invariants, e.g., Chern numbers. Currently, there is increasing in-terests toward the physically detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Jian Xu

Unsupervised representation learning methods are widely used for gaining insight into high-dimensional, unstructured, or structured data. In some cases, users may have prior topological knowledge about the data, such as a known cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Edith Heiter , Robin Vandaele , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys , Jefrey Lijffijt

Topological insulators are described by topological invariants that can be computed by integrals over momentum space, but also as traces over local, real-space topological markers. These markers are useful to detect topological insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Selma Franca , Adolfo G. Grushin

Recently, there has been a lot of activity in the research field of topological non-Hermitian physics, partly driven by fundamental interests and partly driven by applications in photonics. However, despite these activities, a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 W. B. Rui , Y. X. Zhao , Andreas P. Schnyder

A Dirac operator on the plane with constant (positive) mass is a Chern insulator, sitting in class D of the Kitaev table. Despite its simplicity, this system is topologically ill-behaved: the non-compact Brillouin zone prevents definition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Sylvain Rossi , Alessandro Tarantola

The organization of the electrons in the ground state is classified by means of topological invariants, defined as global properties of the wavefunction. Here we address the Chern number of a two-dimensional insulator and we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-23 Raffaello Bianco , Raffaele Resta

We consider the two-dimensional topological Chern insulator in the presence of static disorder. Generic quantum states in this system are Anderson localized. However, topology requires the presence of a subset of critical states, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Mateo Moreno-Gonzalez , Johannes Dieplinger , Alexander Altland

Dirac semimetal is a class of semi-metallic phase protected by certain types of crystalline symmetries, and its low-energy effective Hamiltonian is described by Dirac equations in three dimensions (3D). Despite of various theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

Utilizing Bott index vectors formulated through a series of polynomials of position operators under open boundary conditions, we establish a universal, rigorous, and complete correspondence between the Bott index vector and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jia-Zheng Li , Xun-Jiang Luo , Fengcheng Wu , Meng Xiao

We develop a systematic approach for constructing symmetry-based indicators of a topological classification for superconducting systems. The topological invariants constructed in this work form a complete set of symmetry-based indicators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Max Geier , Piet W. Brouwer , Luka Trifunovic

Topological invariants play a key role in the characterization of topological states. Due to the existence of exceptional points, it is a great challenge to detect topological invariants in non-Hermitian systems. We put forward a dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Bo Zhu , Yongguan Ke , Honghua Zhong , Chaohong Lee

Topological signals are variables or features associated with both nodes and edges of a network. Recently, in the context of Topological Machine Learning, great attention has been devoted to signal processing of such topological signals.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-26 Runyue Wang , Yu Tian , Pietro Liò , Ginestra Bianconi