Microscopic Realization of Two-Dimensional Bosonic Topological Insulators

It is well known that a bosonic Mott insulator can be realized by condensing vortices of a boson condensate. Usually, a vortex becomes an antivortex (and vice versa) under time reversal symmetry, and the condensation of vortices results in a trivial Mott insulator. However, if each vortex or antivor...

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Main Authors: Liu, Zheng-Xin, Gu, Zheng-Cheng, Wen, Xiao-Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92814
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-581X