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7 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Exciton Alchemy: Chern Excitons from Trivial Bands

Yoonseok Hwang, Henry Davenport, Frank Schindler

Exciton topology is commonly inherited from the topology of the underlying electronic bands. Recent theoretical work, however, has shown that the exciton Chern number can in genera…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Fragile Topology is Unstable Under Translation Refinement

Yoonseok Hwang, Saavanth Velury, Taylor L. Hughes

Fragile topological phases become trivial upon the addition of suitable trivial bands, distinguishing them from stable topological phases. Nevertheless, various response phenomena…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Composite Quantum Geometry and Semiclassical Dynamics

Henry Davenport, Yoonseok Hwang, Johannes Knolle +1

We derive semiclassical equations of motion for general composite bound states in insulators and semiconductors, covering excitations such as excitons and trions. For neutral compo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Stable Wave-Function Zeros Indicate Exciton Topology

Yoonseok Hwang, Henry Davenport, Frank Schindler

Excitons are bound states of electrons and holes whose band topology arises from an interplay between the topology of the underlying electronic bands and the structure of the elect…

physics.optics2026

Building blocks of topological band theory for photonic crystals

Yoonseok Hwang, Vaibhav Gupta, Antonio Morales-Pérez +6

We derive a framework for classifying topological bands in three-dimensional photonic band structures, where the zero frequency polarization singularity implied by Maxwell's equati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Global and Local Topological Crystalline Markers for Rotation-Symmetric Insulators

Saavanth Velury, Yoonseok Hwang, Taylor L. Hughes

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 symme…