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most citedClassification of topological quantum matter with symmetries

2.9k citations

277 papers

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 3 cited

Field Theoretic Aspects of Condensed Matter Physics: An Overview

Eduardo Fradkin

In this chapter I discuss the impact of concepts of Quantum Field Theory in modern Condensed Physics. Although the interplay between these two areas is certainly not new, the impac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 61 cited

Leveraging generative adversarial networks to create realistic scanning transmission electron microscopy images

Abid Khan, Chia-Hao Lee, Pinshane Y. Huang +1

The rise of automation and machine learning (ML) in electron microscopy has the potential to revolutionize materials research through autonomous data collection and processing. A s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 6 cited

Scattering theory of delicate topological insulators

Penghao Zhu, Jiho Noh, Yingkai Liu +1

We study the scattering theory of delicate topological insulators (TIs), which are novel topological phases beyond the paradigm of the tenfold way, topological quantum chemistry, a…

nucl-th2022★ 10 cited

Applications of Persistent Homology in Nuclear Collisions

Greg Hamilton, Travis Dore, Christopher Plumberg

We introduce a novel set of observables associated to the rapidly developing field of persistent homology for the quantitative characterization of nuclear collisions and their evol…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 5 cited

Topological Field Theories of Three-Dimensional Rotation Symmetric Insulators: Coupling Curvature and Electromagnetism

Julian May-Mann, Mark R. Hirsbrunner, Xuchen Cao +1

Quantized responses are important tools for understanding and characterizing the universal features of topological phases of matter. In this work, we consider a class of topologica…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 19 cited

Spin Hopf Insulator: Helical Hinge States and Returning Thouless Pump

Penghao Zhu, A. Alexandradinata, Taylor L. Hughes

We introduce a time-reversal-symmetric analog of the Hopf insulator that we call a spin Hopf insulator. The spin Hopf insulator harbors nontrivial Kane-Mele invariants on it…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 64 cited

Higher rank chirality and non-Hermitian skin effect in a topolectrical circuit

Penghao Zhu, Xiao-Qi Sun, Taylor L. Hughes +1

While chirality imbalances are forbidden in conventional lattice systems, non-Hermiticity can effectively avoid the chiral-doubling theorem to facilitate 1D chiral dynamics. Indeed…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 59 cited

Spin-Resolved Topology and Partial Axion Angles in Three-Dimensional Insulators

Kuan-Sen Lin, Giandomenico Palumbo, Zhaopeng Guo +8

Symmetry-protected topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) have primarily been characterized by their gapless boundary states. However, in time-reversal- (-) invaria…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 77 cited

Magnetic-field sensitive charge density wave orders in the superconducting phase of UTe2

Anuva Aishwarya, Julian May-Mann, Arjun Raghavan +8

The intense interest in triplet superconductivity partly stems from theoretical predictions of exotic excitations such as non-abelian Majorana modes, chiral supercurrents, and half…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 18 cited

Theory of oblique topological insulators

Benjamin Moy, Hart Goldman, Ramanjit Sohal +1

A long-standing problem in the study of topological phases of matter has been to understand the types of fractional topological insulator (FTI) phases possible in 3+1 dimensions. U…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Stranger than Metals

Philip W. Phillips, Nigel E. Hussey, Peter Abbamonte

Although the resistivity in traditional metals increases with temperature, its dependence vanishes at low or high temperature, albeit for different reasons. Here, we review a c…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 3 cited

Kitaev Chain with a Fractional Twist

Bora Basa, Gabriele La Nave, Philip W. Phillips

The topological non-triviality of insulating phases of matter is by now well understood through topological K-theory where the indices of the Dirac operators are assembled into top…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Vortices in a Ginzburg Landau Theory of Superconductors with Nematic Order

Ramiro Sebastián Severino, Pablo Daniel Mininni, Eduardo Fradkin +3

In this work we explore the interplay between superconductivity and nematicity in the framework of a Ginzburg Landau theory with a nematic order parameter coupled to the supercondu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 14 cited

Spin-momentum locking from topological quantum chemistry: applications to multifold fermions

Mao Lin, Iñigo Robredo, Niels B. M. Schröter +3

In spin-orbit coupled crystals, symmetries can protect multifold degeneracies with large Chern numbers and Brillouin zone spanning topological surface states. In this work, we expl…

physics.optics2022★ 9 cited

Energy density as a probe of band representations in photonic crystals

M. Blanco de Paz, M. A. J. Herrera, P. Arroyo Huidobro +6

Topological Quantum Chemistry (TQC) has recently emerged as a instrumental tool to characterize the topological nature of both fermionic and bosonic band structures. TQC is based o…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 9 cited

Probing the bulk plasmon continuum of layered materials through electron energy loss spectroscopy in a reflection geometry

Christian Boyd, Luke Yeo, Philip W. Phillips

A periodic arrangement of 2D conducting planes is known to host a (bulk) plasmon dispersion that interpolates between the typical, gapped behavior of 3D metals and a gapless, acous…

quant-ph2022★ 17 cited

Entanglement Features of Random Neural Network Quantum States

Xiao-Qi Sun, Tamra Nebabu, Xizhi Han +2

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are a class of neural networks that have been successfully employed as a variational ansatz for quantum many-body wave functions. Here, we deve…

hep-ph2022

Revisiting the Dark Matter Interpretation of Excess Rates in Semiconductors

Peter Abbamonte, Daniel Baxter, Yonatan Kahn +4

In light of recent results from low-threshold dark matter detectors, we revisit the possibility of a common dark matter origin for multiple excesses across numerous direct detectio…

physics.optics2022★ 22 cited

Wannier Function Methods for Topological Modes in 1D Photonic Crystals

Vaibhav Gupta, Barry Bradlyn

In this work, we use Wannier functions to analyze topological phase transitions in one dimensional photonic crystals. We first review the construction of exponentially localized Wa…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 10 cited

Resolving Hall and dissipative viscosity ambiguities via boundary effects

Pranav Rao, Barry Bradlyn

We examine the physical implications of the viscous redundancy of two-dimensional anisotropic fluids, where different components of the viscosity tensor lead to identical effects i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 22 cited

Lecture Notes on Berry Phases and Topology

Barry Bradlyn, Mikel Iraola

In these notes, we review the role of Berry phases and topology in noninteracting electron systems. Topics including the adiabatic theorem, parallel transport, and Wannier function…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 30 cited

An accurate tight binding model for twisted bilayer graphene describes topological flat bands without geometric relaxation

Shivesh Pathak, Tawfiqur Rakib, Run Hou +4

A major hurdle in understanding the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) are the roles of lattice relaxation and electronic structure on isolated band flattening near m…

quant-ph2021★ 52 cited

Classical Shadows for Quantum Process Tomography on Near-term Quantum Computers

Ryan Levy, Di Luo, Bryan K. Clark

Quantum process tomography is a powerful tool for understanding quantum channels and characterizing properties of quantum devices. Inspired by recent advances using classical shado…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 8 cited

Thermalization of Randomly Coupled SYK Models

Ramanjit Sohal, Laimei Nie, Xiao-Qi Sun +1

We investigate the thermalization of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models coupled via random interactions following quenches from the perspective of entanglement. Previous studies have s…