A microscopic perspective on moiré materials

KP Nuckolls, A Yazdani - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Contemporary quantum materials research is guided by themes of topology and electronic
correlations. A confluence of these two themes is engineered in moiré materials, an …

Higher-order band topology

B **e, HX Wang, X Zhang, P Zhan, JH Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
A conventional topological insulator (TI) has gapped bulk states but gapless edge states.
The emergence of the gapless edge states is dictated by the bulk topological invariant of the …

Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

Strongly correlated Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

KP Nuckolls, M Oh, D Wong, B Lian, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between electrons and the topology of their energy bands can create unusual
quantum phases of matter. Most topological electronic phases appear in systems with weak …

Nonlinearity-induced photonic topological insulator

LJ Maczewsky, M Heinrich, M Kremer, SK Ivanov… - Science, 2020 - science.org
A hallmark feature of topological insulators is robust edge transport that is impervious to
scattering at defects and lattice disorder. We demonstrate a topological system, using a …

3D carbon allotropes: topological quantum materials with obstructed atomic insulating phases, multiple bulk‐boundary correspondences, and real topology

J Wang, TT Zhang, Q Zhang, X Cheng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The study of topological phases with unconventional bulk‐boundary correspondences and
nontrivial real Chern number has garnered significant attention in the topological states of …

Charged skyrmions and topological origin of superconductivity in magic-angle graphene

E Khalaf, S Chatterjee, N Bultinck, MP Zaletel… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Topological solitons, a class of stable nonlinear excitations, appear in diverse domains as in
the Skyrme model of nuclear forces. Here, we argue that similar excitations play an …

Tailoring quantum gases by Floquet engineering

C Weitenberg, J Simonet - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Floquet engineering is the concept of tailoring a system by a periodic drive, and it is
increasingly employed in many areas of physics. Ultracold atoms in optical lattices offer a …

Connecting the many-body Chern number to Luttinger's theorem through Středa's formula

L Peralta Gavensky, S Sachdev, N Goldman - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Relating the quantized Hall response of correlated insulators to many-body topological
invariants is a key challenge in topological quantum matter. Here, we use Středa's formula to …

Quantization and its breakdown in a Hubbard–Thouless pump

AS Walter, Z Zhu, M Gächter, J Minguzzi, S Roschinski… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Geometric properties of wave functions can explain the appearance of topological invariants
in many condensed-matter and quantum systems. For example, topological invariants …