Z2Pack: Numerical implementation of hybrid Wannier centers for identifying topological materials

D Gresch, G Autes, OV Yazyev, M Troyer, D Vanderbilt… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The intense theoretical and experimental interest in topological insulators and semimetals
has established band structure topology as a fundamental material property. Consequently …

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 …

Topology and symmetry in quantum materials

B Singh, H Lin, A Bansil - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Interest in topological materials continues to grow unabated in view of their conceptual
novelties as well as their potential as platforms for transformational new technologies …

Symmetry-based indicators of band topology in the 230 space groups

HC Po, A Vishwanath, H Watanabe - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The interplay between symmetry and topology leads to a rich variety of electronic topological
phases, protecting states such as the topological insulators and Dirac semimetals. Previous …

Colloquium: Topological band theory

A Bansil, H Lin, T Das - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of
discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient …

Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …

WannierTools: An open-source software package for novel topological materials

QS Wu, SN Zhang, HF Song, M Troyer… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present an open-source software package WannierTools, a tool for investigation of novel
topological materials. This code works in the tight-binding framework, which can be …

Topological quantum chemistry

B Bradlyn, L Elcoro, J Cano, MG Vergniory, Z Wang… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Since the discovery of topological insulators and semimetals, there has been much research
into predicting and experimentally discovering distinct classes of these materials, in which …

Wannier center sheets in topological insulators

M Taherinejad, KF Garrity, D Vanderbilt - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We argue that various kinds of topological insulators (TIs) can be insightfully characterized
by an inspection of the charge centers of the hybrid Wannier functions, defined as the …

Local invariants identify topology in metals and gapless systems

A Cerjan, TA Loring - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Although topological band theory has been used to discover and classify a wide array of
novel topological phases in insulating and semimetal systems, it is not well suited to …