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 (Author), Gu, Zheng-Cheng (Author), Wen, Xiao-Gang (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2015-01-13T14:45:09Z.
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