Topological Materials

Dear Colleague,

It is my pleasure to announce this special issue. The past decades have witnessed a rapid progress in the development of topological materials, from theoretical concepts to material realizations. Topological materials including topological insulators, topological superconductors and topological semimetals, have attracted enormous attention in the communities of condensed matter physics, material science and chemistry due to the exotic non-trivial properties such as quantum anomalous Hall effect, quantum spin Hall effect, Majorana zero mode, Berry curvature and so on. It is believed that such exotic properties can be used in the fields of dissipationless transport, topological quantum computation, spintronics, photoelectrical response and so on. Therefore, comprehensive investigations on topological materials are essential, not only for the understanding of the essence of topological materials, but also for its potential applications. Despite great progress has been made in recent years in both theory and experiment of the topological materials research, application exploitation based on topological materials are encountering many practical issues. The next step may focus on how to develop the practical application of topological materials, or to search for application-oriented topological materials. This special issue collects the original papers (from both theorists and experimentalists on all relevant aspects of topological materials) on recent progresses and achievements and review articles in topological materials.

Prof. Dr. Zhiwei Wang
Dr. Zi-An Li
Dr. Jimin Wang
Guest Editors

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• Prediction of new topological materials
• Crystal growth and exploration of new topological materials
• Growth and characterization of topological material nanostructures
• Novel physical properties in topological materials
• Fabrication of devices based on topological materials