False-positive and false-negative assignments of topological insulators in density functional theory and hybrids

J Vidal, X Zhang, L Yu, JW Luo, A Zunger - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2011 - APS
Density-functional theory (DFT) approaches have been used recently to judge the
topological order of various materials despite DFT's well-known band-gap underestimation …

A search model for topological insulators with high-throughput robustness descriptors

K Yang, W Setyawan, S Wang… - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
Topological insulators (TI) are becoming one of the most studied classes of novel materials
because of their great potential for applications ranging from spintronics to quantum …

Exploration and prediction of topological electronic materials based on first-principles calculations

H Weng, X Dai, Z Fang - Mrs Bulletin, 2014 - cambridge.org
The class of topological insulator materials is one of the frontier topics of condensed matter
physics. The great success of this field is due to the conceptual breakthroughs in theories for …

Band inversion mechanism in topological insulators: A guideline for materials design

Z Zhu, Y Cheng, U Schwingenschlögl - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2012 - APS
Alteration of the topological order by band inversion is a key ingredient of a topologically
nontrivial material. Using first-principles calculations for HgTe, PtScBi, and Bi 2 Se 3, we …

Importance of van der Waals interactions for ab initio studies of topological insulators

K Shirali, WA Shelton, I Vekhter - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the lattice and electronic structures of the bulk and surface of the prototypical
layered topological insulators Bi 2 Se 3 and Bi 2 Te 3 using ab initio density functional …

Fractionalized topological insulators

J Maciejko, GA Fiete - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Topological insulators have emerged as a major topic of condensed matter physics
research, with several novel applications proposed. Although there are now a number of …

Artificial intelligence for high-throughput discovery of topological insulators: The example of alloyed tetradymites

G Cao, R Ouyang, LM Ghiringhelli, M Scheffler… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Significant advances have been made in predicting new topological materials using high-
throughput empirical descriptors or symmetry-based indicators. To date, these approaches …

Topological insulators from the perspective of first‐principles calculations

H Zhang, SC Zhang - physica status solidi (RRL)–Rapid …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states
inside the bulk band gap. These topological surface states are robust against weak time …

Machine learning for materials discovery: Two-dimensional topological insulators

GR Schleder, B Focassio, A Fazzio - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
One of the main goals and challenges of materials discovery is to find the best candidates
for each interest property or application. Machine learning rises in this context to efficiently …

Computational search for strong topological insulators: an exercise in data mining and electronic structure

M Klintenberg, JT Haraldsen, AV Balatsky - Applied Physics Research, 2014 - osti.gov
In this paper, we report a data-mining investigation for the search of topological insulators by
examining individual electronic structures for over 60,000 materials. Using a data-mining …