Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Optical N-invariant of graphene’s topological viscous Hall fluid

  • Todd Van Mechelen,
  • Wenbo Sun,
  • Zubin Jacob

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25097-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Graphene is the archetype for realizing two-dimensional topological phases of matter. Here, the authors introduce a new topological classification connected to polarization transport, where the topological number is revealed in the spatiotemporal dispersion of the susceptibility tensor.