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We present theoretical results for a Kondo-lattice model with spin-1/2 localized moments, including both the intrasite Kondo coupling and an intersite antiferromagnetic exchange interaction, treated within an extended mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Coqblin , C. Lacroix , M. A. Gusmão , J. R. Iglesias

It is interesting to ask whether electron interaction can turn a topologically trivial superconductor into a nontrivial one without the presence of spin-obital coupling. In this paper we solve a correlated $s$-wave superconducting model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-27 Huai-Shuang Zhu , Zhidan Li , Qiang Han , Z. D. Wang

We demonstrate a generic mechanism to realize topological flat minibands by confining massive Dirac fermions in a periodic moir\'e potential, which can be achieved in a heterobilayer of transition metal dichalcogenides. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Ying Su , Heqiu Li , Chuanwei Zhang , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

In the framework of the mean field approach, we provide analytical and numerical solution of the spin-1/2 anisotropic Kondo lattice for arbitrary dimension at half filling. Nontrivial solution for the amplitude of the field opens a gap in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-10 Igor N. Karnaukhov

Heavy-fermion or Kondo lattice materials are considered to be typical strongly correlated systems, for which mean-field approximations have shown that the Coulomb interaction increases the effective mass and narrows the band gap. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-21 Masanori Kohno

A first-principles computational method with self-consistent on-site and inter-site Hubbard functionals is able to treat local and non-local Coulomb interactions on an equal footing. To apply the method to understand solids with strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-17 Wooil Yang , Young-Woo Son

Three dimensional topological insulators embody a newly discovered state of matter characterized by conducting spin-momentum locked surface states that span the bulk band gap as demonstrated via spin-resolved ARPES measurements . This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 L. Andrew Wray , Su-Yang Xu , Yuqi Xia , David Hsieh , Alexei V. Fedorov , Hsin Lin , Arun Bansil , Yew San Hor , Robert J. Cava , M. Zahid Hasan

Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum materials characterized by protected gapless surface or edge states but insulating bulk states which is due to presence of spin-orbit interactions and time-reversal symmetry. Such an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-11 Vivek Kumar , Pradeep Kumar

Topological insulators are a class of band insulators with non-trivial topology, a result of band inversion due to the strong spin-orbit coupling. The transition between topological and normal insulator can be realized by tuning the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-29 Wenhan Zhang , M. X. Chen , Jixia Dai , Xueyun Wang , Zhicheng Zhong , Sang-Wook Cheong , Weida Wu

Moir\'e materials have become one of the most active fields in material science in recent years due to their high tunability, and their unique properties emerge from the Moir\'e-scale structure modulation. Here, we propose twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama

We investigate the Kondo effect in a structure which is constructed by embedding one quantum dot between a normal metal and a \emph{DIII}-class topological superconductor supporting Majorana doublets at its ends. It is observed that Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Zhen Gao , Wei-Jiang Gong

When electron-electron interaction dominates over other electronic energy scales, exotic, collective phenomena often emerge out of seemingly ordinary matter. The strongly correlated phenomena, such as quantum spin liquid and unconventional…

We propose the notion of spin-selective Kondo insulator, which provides a fundamental mechanism to describe the ferromagnetic phase of the Kondo lattice model with antiferromagnetic coupling. This unveils a remarkable feature of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-24 Robert Peters , Norio Kawakami , Thomas Pruschke

We prove that the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model with purely imaginary next-nearest-neighbor hoppings has a particle-hole symmetry at half-filling. Such a symmetry has interesting consequences including the absence of charge and spin currents…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Dong Zheng , Guang-Ming Zhang , Congjun Wu

Our understanding of topological insulators is based on an underlying crystalline lattice where the local electronic degrees of freedom at different sites hybridize with each other in ways that produce nontrivial band topology, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

Time reversal symmetric topological insulators are generically robust with respect to weak local interaction, unless symmetry breaking transitions take place. Using dynamical mean-field theory we solve an interacting model of quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 A. Amaricci , G. Mazza , M. Capone , M. Fabrizio

Topological insulators are a new class of insulators in which a bulk gap for electronic excitations is generated by strong spin orbit coupling. These novel materials are distinguished from ordinary insulators by the presence of gapless…

We develop a theory of the correlated magnetically ordered insulating state at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator. We demonstrate that the gapped spin-polarized state, induced by the application of the magnetic field $B$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Maxim Kharitonov

We predict that junctions between an antiferromagnetic insulator and a superconductor provide a robust platform to create a one-dimensional topological superconducting state. Its emergence does not require the presence of intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-10 Senna S. Luntama , Päivi Törmä , Jose L. Lado