Joel E. Moore

The birth of topological insulators.

Certain insulators have exotic metallic states on their surfaces. These states are formed by topological effects that also render the electrons travelling on such surfaces insensitive to scattering by impurities. Such topological insulators may provide new routes to generating novel phases and particles, possibly finding uses in technological applications in spintronics and quantum computing.

Topological invariants of time-reversal-invariant band structures

The topological invariants of a time-reversal-invariant band structure in two dimensions are multiple copies of the

Spin Polarization and Transport of Surface States in the Topological Insulators Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 from First Principles

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Unbounded growth of entanglement in models of many-body localization.

invariant found by Kane and Mele. Such invariants protect the topological insulator and give rise to a spin Hall effect carried by edge states. Each pair of bands related by time reversal is described by a single

Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators

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Crossover from incoherent to coherent phonon scattering in epitaxial oxide superlattices

invariant, up to one less than half the dimension of the Bloch Hamiltonians. In three dimensions, there are four such invariants per band. The

Stability of the quantum spin Hall effect: Effects of interactions, disorder, and Z 2 topology

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Observation of Spin Coulomb Drag in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

invariants of a crystal determine the transitions between ordinary and topological insulators as its bands are occupied by electrons. We derive these invariants using maps from the Brillouin zone to the space of Bloch Hamiltonians and clarify the connections between

Entanglement Entropy of Random Quantum Critical Points in One Dimension

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Optimal thermoelectric figure of merit of a molecular junction

invariants, the integer invariants that underlie the integer quantum Hall effect, and previous invariants of