Topological Matters and Relevant Emergent Phenomena
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 4814
Special Issue Editors
Interests: topological superconductor and Majorana zero mode; topological materials; interface superconductors; low dimensional materials; new phenomena at interfaces and surfaces
Interests: weyl semimetal; nodal-line semimetal; topological superconductor; majorana fermion; non-abelian statistic; scanning tunneling microscopy; molecular beam epitaxy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crystals with non-trivial topologies in their electronic wavefunctions are termed as topological matters. This decade has seen the flurry of the discovery of various categories of topological matters. For example, Bi2Se3-class, SnTe-class and TaAs-class of materials have been established as topological insulators, topological crystalline insulators and topological Weyl semimetals. Topological superconductors were also uncovered in several artificial heterostructures. In the meantime, many novel physics properties of these topological matters, i.e. the existences of Weyl and Majorana quasiparticles, the realizations of quantum spin Hall and quantum anomalous Hall effects, have been experimental detected. The results from the topological matter are of importance in the respects of both fundamental and applicational research.
We feel it is essential to have a chance to summarize the recent progress, which should include the topics on the theoretical prediction and experimental verification of materials with different topologies, the growth of distinct topological matters, their transport, optical, spectroscopic properties, the device applications and so on.
Applied Science will launch the Special Issue “Emergent phenomena of topological matters”. This Special Issue aims to cover recent developments in discovery of various types of topological matters, as well as relevant emergent phenomena.
Prof. Dr. Jinfeng Jia
Prof. Dr. Hao Zheng
Guest Editors
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