Topological Materials from a Chemical Perspective
One of our main interests is the development of a chemical theory of topological materials such asTopological Insulators and Dirac Semimetals. In addition, we established a connection between chemical stability rules and the physics of strongly interacting systems. These findings allowed us to find new models of strongly interacting symmetry protected topological phases. Currently, we are interested in developing a topological classification of chemical reactions.
Selected Publications
Muechler, L. Topological classification of molecules and chemical reactions with a perplectic structure. Phys. Rev. B 101, 045123 (2020).
Chen, C., Muechler, L., Car, R., Neupert, T. & Maciejko, J. Fermionic Symmetry-Protected Topological Phase in a Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 096405 (2016).
Gibson, Q., Schoop, L., Muechler, L., Xie, L., Hirschberger, M., Ong, N., Car, R. & Cava, R. Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetals: Design Principles and Predictions of New Materials. Phys. Rev. B. 91, 205128 (2015).
Muechler, L., Maciejko, J., Neupert, T. & Car, R. Möbius Molecules and Fragile Mott Insulators. Phys. Rev. B 90, 245142 (2014).
Muechler, L., Zhang, H., Chadov, S., Yan, B., Casper, F., Kübler, J., Zhang, S. & Felser, C. Topological Insulators from a Chemist’s Perspective. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51, 7221 (2012).