Non-Hermitian topological phases: principles and prospects

A Banerjee, R Sarkar, S Dey… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The synergy between non-Hermitian concepts and topological ideas have led to very fruitful
activity in the recent years. Their interplay has resulted in a wide variety of new non …

Josephson diode effect from Cooper pair momentum in a topological semimetal

B Pal, A Chakraborty, PK Sivakumar, M Davydova… - Nature physics, 2022 - nature.com
Cooper pairs in non-centrosymmetric superconductors can acquire finite centre-of-mass
momentum in the presence of an external magnetic field. Recent theory predicts that such …

Zeeman field-induced two-dimensional Weyl semimetal phase in cadmium arsenide

B Guo, W Miao, V Huang, AC Lygo, X Dai… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report a topological phase transition in quantum-confined cadmium arsenide (Cd 3 As 2)
thin films under an in-plane Zeeman field when the Fermi level is tuned into the topological …

Observation of spin-momentum locked surface states in amorphous Bi2Se3

P Corbae, S Ciocys, D Varjas, E Kennedy… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Crystalline symmetries have played a central role in the identification and understanding of
quantum materials. Here we investigate whether an amorphous analogue of a well known …

Gate-tunable anomalous hall effect in stacked van der waals ferromagnetic insulator–topological insulator heterostructures

AE Llacsahuanga Allcca, XC Pan, I Miotkowski… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The search of novel topological states, such as the quantum anomalous Hall insulator and
chiral Majorana fermions, has motivated different schemes to introduce magnetism into …

Nontrivial giant linear magnetoresistance in nodal-line semimetal ZrGeSe 2D layers

J Yang, ZY Song, L Guo, H Gao, Z Dong, Q Yu… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Linear magnetoresistance (LMR) is usually observed in topological quantum materials and
plausibly connected with the topologically nontrivial surface state with Dirac-cone-like linear …

Controlling the hybridization gap and transport in a thin-film topological insulator: Effect of strain, and electric and magnetic field

M Shafiei, F Fazileh, FM Peeters, MV Milošević - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In a thin-film topological insulator (TI), the edge states on two surfaces may couple by
quantum tunneling, opening a gap known as the hybridization gap. Controlling the …

Emergent helical edge states in a hybridized three-dimensional topological insulator

SK Chong, L Liu, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the thickness of a three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) becomes comparable
to the penetration depth of surface states, quantum tunneling between surfaces turns their …

Tuning three-dimensional higher-order topological insulators by surface state hybridization

HJ Lin, HP Sun, T Liu, PL Zhao - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are a novel class of materials that exhibit exotic
boundary states. The finite size effect induced hybridization between the boundary state …

Transitional Faraday and Kerr effect in hybridized topological insulator thin films

M Shah, A Akbar, M Sajid… - Optical materials …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We theoretically investigate quantum phase transitions from topologically non-trivial to trivial
states in three-dimensional hybridized topological insulator (TI) ultra-thin films. The interplay …