Observation of a topological crystalline insulator phase and topological phase transition in Pb1−xSnxTe

SY Xu, C Liu, N Alidoust, M Neupane, D Qian… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
A topological insulator protected by time-reversal symmetry is realized via spin–orbit
interaction-driven band inversion. The topological phase in the Bi1− x Sb x system is due to …

Electron-hole pairing in a topological insulator thin film

DK Efimkin, YE Lozovik, AA Sokolik - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2012 - APS
We consider the pairing of massless Dirac electrons and holes located on opposite surfaces
of thin films of “strong” three-dimensional topological insulators. Such pairing is predicted to …

Time reversal symmetric topological exciton condensate in bilayer HgTe quantum wells

JC Budich, B Trauzettel, P Michetti - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We investigate a bilayer system of critical HgTe quantum wells, each featuring a spin-
degenerate pair of massless Dirac fermions. In the presence of an electrostatic interlayer …

Topological excitonic corner states and nodal phase in bilayer quantum spin Hall insulators

ZR Liu, LH Hu, CZ Chen, B Zhou, DH Xu - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Interaction induced topological states remain one of the most fascinating phenomena in
condensed matter physics. The exciton condensate has recently sparked renewed interest …

Coulomb interaction effects in graphene bilayers: electron–hole pairing and plasmaron formation

VN Phan, H Fehske - New Journal of Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a theoretical study of the many-body effects of electron–electron interaction on the
ground-state and spectral properties of double-layer graphene. Using a projector-based …

The multiple topological phases in a new family of compounds ACrTe (A= Na, K, Rb, Cs) predicted by first-principles calculations

S Peng, Q Wang, X Huang, N Hao - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Based on first-principles calculations, we predict a new family of chromium-based
compounds, ACrTe (A= Na, K, Rb, Cs), which share the same structure as the iron-based …

Interacting topological mirror excitonic insulator in one dimension

LH Hu, RX Zhang, FC Zhang, C Wu - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We introduce the topological mirror excitonic insulator as a new type of interacting
topological crystalline phase in one dimension. Its mirror-symmetry-protected topological …

Roton-maxon spectrum and instability for weakly interacting dipolar excitons in a semiconductor layer

AK Fedorov, IL Kurbakov, YE Lozovik - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
The formation of the roton-maxon excitation spectrum and the roton instability effect for a
weakly correlated Bose gas of dipolar excitons in a semiconductor layer are predicted. The …

Optical probing in a bilayer dark-bright condensate system

NA Asriyan, IL Kurbakov, AK Fedorov, YE Lozovik - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We consider a bilayer system of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein-condensed dipolar dark
excitons (upper layer) and bright ones (bottom layer). We demonstrate that the interlayer …

Excitonic properties in a double-layer graphene

DT Bui, VN Phan - Physica Scripta, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper investigates theoretically the excitonic condensation state at zero temperature in
a double-layer graphene structure. In the framework of the unrestricted Hartree–Fock …