Time-reversal symmetry-breaking nematic insulators near quantum spin Hall phase transitions

F Xue, AH MacDonald - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We study the phase diagram of a model quantum spin Hall system as a function of band
inversion and band-coupling strength, demonstrating that when band hybridization is weak …

Spin-orbit coupled iridium moments on the geometrically frustrated fcc lattice

AM Cook, S Matern, C Hickey, AA Aczel… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Motivated by experiments on the double perovskites La 2 ZnIrO 6 and La 2 MgIrO 6, we
study the magnetism of spin-orbit coupled j eff= 1/2 iridium moments on the three …

Magnetic skyrmion crystal at a topological insulator surface

S Divic, H Ling, T Pereg-Barnea, A Paramekanti - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We consider a magnetic skyrmion crystal formed at the surface of a topological insulator.
Incorporating the exchange interaction between the helical Dirac surface states and the …

Nematic order in topological Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models

A Hardy, A Bose, A Paramekanti - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We study a class of multiorbital models based on those proposed by Venderbos et al.[Phys.
Rev. B 98, 235160 (2018) 2469-9950 10.1103/PhysRevB. 98.235160] which exhibit an …

Spontaneous symmetry breaking of an interacting Chern insulator on a topological square lattice

YX Wang, DX Qi - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The interplay between topology and correlation lies at the forefront of modern condensed
matter physics. In this paper, we study the extended fermion-Hubbard model, including the …

Generating and detecting topological phases with higher Chern number

A Alase, DL Feder - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Topological phases with broken time-reversal symmetry and Chern number| C|≥ 2 are of
fundamental interest, but it remains unclear how to engineer the desired topological …

Higher angular momentum band inversions in two dimensions

JWF Venderbos, Y Hu, CL Kane - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We study a special class of topological phase transitions in two dimensions described by the
inversion of bands with relative angular momentum higher than 1. A band inversion of this …

Interaction-induced phase transitions of type-II Weyl semimetals

YX Wang, F Li, B Bian - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The study of Weyl semimetals (WSMs) lies at the forefront of the nontrivial topological
phenomena in condensed-matter physics. In this work, we study the effect of on-site …

Emergence of superconductivity in a doped single-valley quadratic band crossing system of spin- fermions

KA Pawlak, JM Murray, O Vafek - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
For two-dimensional single-valley quadratic band crossing systems with weak repulsive
electron-electron interactions, we show that upon introducing a chemical potential, particle …

Individual band with higher Chern numbers in double perovskite (001) monolayers

AM Cook - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We show a tight-binding model for double perovskite monolayers grown in the {001}
crystallographic direction can exhibit higher Chern numbers for the lowest band of the model …