Classification of topological quantum matter with symmetries

CK Chiu, JCY Teo, AP Schnyder, S Ryu - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they
exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices …

Topological superconductors: a review

M Sato, Y Ando - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review elaborates pedagogically on the fundamental concept, basic theory, expected
properties, and materials realizations of topological superconductors. The relation between …

Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid

Y Kasahara, T Ohnishi, Y Mizukami, O Tanaka, S Ma… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gases involves the flow of topologically
protected dissipationless charge currents along the edges of a sample. Integer or fractional …

Axion electrodynamics in topological materials

A Sekine, K Nomura - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
One of the intriguing properties characteristic to three-dimensional topological materials is
the topological magnetoelectric phenomena arising from a topological term called the θ …

Hunting Majorana fermions in Kitaev magnets

Y Motome, J Nasu - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2020 - journals.jps.jp
A Majorana fermion is a fermionic particle that is its own antiparticle. Since the theoretical
discovery by Ettore Majorana in 1937, the exotic particle has long been searched in particle …

Topological crystalline insulators and topological superconductors: From concepts to materials

Y Ando, L Fu - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2015 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss recent progress in the explorations of topological materials
beyond topological insulators; specifically, we focus on topological crystalline insulators and …

Majorana fermions and topology in superconductors

M Sato, S Fujimoto - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2016 - journals.jps.jp
Topological superconductors are novel classes of quantum condensed phases,
characterized by topologically nontrivial structures of Cooper pairing states. On the surfaces …

Topology of crystalline insulators and superconductors

K Shiozaki, M Sato - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We complete a classification of topological phases and their topological defects in crystalline
insulators and superconductors. We consider topological phases and defects described by …

Unusual Thermal Hall Effect in a Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate

Y Kasahara, K Sugii, T Ohnishi, M Shimozawa… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
The Kitaev quantum spin liquid displays the fractionalization of quantum spins into Majorana
fermions. The emergent Majorana edge current is predicted to manifest itself in the form of a …

Axionic field theory of -dimensional Weyl semimetals

P Goswami, S Tewari - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2013 - APS
From a direct calculation of the anomalous Hall conductivity and an effective
electromagnetic action obtained via Fujikawa's chiral rotation technique, we conclude that …