An invitation to topological orders and category theory

L Kong, ZH Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05565, 2022 - arxiv.org
Although it has been a well-known fact, for more than two decades, that category theory is
needed for the study of topological orders, it is still a non-trivial challenge for students and …

Real-space construction of crystalline topological superconductors and insulators in 2d interacting fermionic systems

JH Zhang, S Yang, Y Qi, ZC Gu - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
The construction and classification of crystalline symmetry protected topological (SPT)
phases in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems have been intensively studied in the …

Faithful derivation of symmetry indicators: A case study for topological superconductors with time-reversal and inversion symmetries

SJ Huang, YT Hsu - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Topological crystalline superconductors have attracted rapidly rising attention due to the
possibility of higher-order phases, which support Majorana modes on boundaries in d− 2 or …

Construction and classification of crystalline topological superconductor and insulators in three-dimensional interacting fermion systems

JH Zhang, SQ Ning, Y Qi, ZC Gu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13558, 2022 - arxiv.org
The natural existence of crystalline symmetry in real materials manifests the importance of
understanding crystalline symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases, especially for …

Effective field theories of topological crystalline insulators and topological crystals

SJ Huang, CT Hsieh, J Yu - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We present a general approach to obtain effective field theories for topological crystalline
insulators whose low-energy theories are described by massive Dirac fermions. We show …

Invertible phases for mixed spatial symmetries and the fermionic crystalline equivalence principle

A Debray - arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02941, 2021 - arxiv.org
Freed-Hopkins give a mathematical ansatz for classifying gapped invertible phases of matter
with a spatial symmetry in terms of Borel-equivariant generalized homology. We propose a …

Strongly correlated crystalline higher-order topological phases in two-dimensional systems: A coupled-wire study

JH Zhang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Coupled-wire constructions have been widely applied to quantum Hall systems and
symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. In this Letter, we use the coupled one …

Hybrid-order topological superconductivity in a topological metal 1T'-MoTe2

SJ Huang, K Park, YT Hsu - npj Quantum Materials, 2024 - nature.com
One key challenge in the field of topological superconductivity (Tsc) has been the rareness
of material realization. This is true not only for the first-order Tsc featuring Majorana surface …

Towards complete characterization of topological insulators and superconductors: A systematic construction of topological invariants based on Atiyah-Hirzebruch …

S Ono, K Shiozaki - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.15814, 2023 - arxiv.org
The past decade has witnessed significant progress in topological materials investigation.
Symmetry-indicator theory and topological quantum chemistry provide an efficient scheme to …

Topological invariants beyond symmetry indicators: Boundary diagnostics for twofold rotationally symmetric superconductors

Y Chen, SJ Huang, YT Hsu, TC Wei - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Topological crystalline superconductors are known to have possible higher-order topology,
which results in Majorana modes on d− 2 or lower-dimensional boundaries. Given the rich …