Pre-prints

- Xia-Ming Zheng, Mehdi Kargarian, Spin liquid phase in the Hubbard model: Luttinger-Ward analysis of the slave-rotor formalism, arXiv: 2505.01509 (2025) .

- Elahe Davari, Mehdi Kargarian, Probing the collective excitations of excitonic insulators in an optical cavity, arXiv: 2501.04736 (2025) .

- Md Shafayat Hossain, Zahir Muhammad, Rajibul Islam, Zi-Jia Cheng, Yu-Xiao Jiang, Maksim Litskevich, Tyler A. Cochran, Xian P. Yang, Byunghoon Kim, Fei Xue, Ilias E. Perakis, Weisheng Zhao, Mehdi Kargarian, Luis Balicas, Titus Neupert, M. Zahid Hasan Pomeranchuk instability of a topological crystal, arXiv: 2410.19636 (2024) .

peer-reviewed Papers

- Md Shafayat Hossain, Rajibul Islam, Zi-Jia Cheng, Zahir Muhammad, Qi Zhang, Zurab Guguchia, Jonas A. Krieger, Brian Casas, Yu-Xiao Jiang, Maksim Litskevich, Xian P. Yang, Byunghoon Kim, Tyler A. Cochran, Ilias E. Perakis, Thomas Hicken, Hubertus Luetkens, Fei Xue,, Mehdi Kargarian, Weisheng Zhao, Luis Balicas, M. Zahid Hasan Superconductivity and a van Hove singularity confined to the surface of a topological semimetal, Nature Communications 16, 3998 (2025) .

- Fatemeh Mohammadi, S. Mojtaba Tabatabaei, Mehdi Kargarian, Abolhassan Vaezi Phase diagram of the Kitaev-Hubbard model: Z2 slave-spin and quantum Monte Carlo approaches, Phys. Rev. B 110, 214425 (2024) .

- Sougata Mardanya, Mehdi Kargarian, Rahul Verma, Tay-Rong Chang, Sugata Chowdhury, Hsin Lin, Arun Bansil, Amit Agarwal, and Bahadur Singh, Unconventional superconducting pairing in a B20 multifold Weyl fermion semimetal, Phys. Rev. Materials 8, L091801 (2024) .

- Xia-Ming Zheng, Mehdi Kargarian, Spinon Kondo lattice in quantum spin liquids using the slave-rotor formalism, Phys. Rev. B 110, 115116 (2024) .

- Elahe Davari, S. Samaneh Ataei, Mehdi Kargarian, Optical drive of amplitude and phase modes in excitonic insulators, Phys. Rev. B 109, 075146 (2024) .

- Fatemeh Mohammadi, Amirhossein Saedpanah, Abolhassan Vaezi, Mehdi Kargarian, Phase transition and fractionalization in the superconducting Kondo lattice model, Phys. Rev. B 106, 195145 (2022) .

- Cooper Finnigan, Mehdi Kargarian, Dmitry K. Efimkin, Equatorial magnetoplasma waves, Phys. Rev. B 105, 205426 (2022) .

- Mehdi Kargarian, ICTP Prize Talk, September 2021, Topological Materials: Correlations and Symmetry, 2020 ICTP Prize Ceremony.

- Mehdi Kargarian, Invited talk at APS March Meeting 2021, Nonlinear Optical Control of Chiral Charge Pumping in a Topological Weyl Semimetal, APS March Meeting 2021.

- Mehdi Kargarian, Invited talk at Washington University in St. Louis, April 2022, Fractionalized superconductors and topological orders, Condensed Matter/Materials & Biological Physics Seminar.

- Fatemeh Mohammadi, Mehdi Kargarian, Designing Z2 and Z2×Z2 topological orders in networks of Majorana bound states, Phys. Rev. B 105, 165107(2022) .

- Dmitry K. Efimkin, Mehdi Kargarian, Topological spin-plasma waves, Phys. Rev. B 104, 075413 (2021) .

- Bahman Sheikhi, Mehdi Kargarian, Abdollah Langari, Hybrid topological magnon-phonon modes in honeycomb and kagome lattices, Phys. Rev. B 104, 045139 (2021) .

- Bahman Sheikhi, Mehdi Kargarian, Abdollah Langari, Thermal Hall and Nernst responses in ultrathin magnetic films of pyrochlore lattice, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 33 (2021) .

- Zahra Khatibi, Roya Ahemeh, Mehdi Kargarian, Excitonic insulator phase and dynamics of condensate in a topological one-dimensional model, Phys. Rev. B 102, 245121 (2020).

- Roya Radgohar, Mehdi Kargarian, Effects of dynamical noises on Majorana bound states, Phys. Rev. B 102, 165111 (2020).

- M. Mehdi Jadidi, Mehdi Kargarian, Martin Mittendorff, Yigit Aytac, Bing Shen, Jacob C. König-Otto, Stephan Winnerl, Ni Ni, Alexander L. Gaeta, Thomas E. Murphy, H. Dennis Drew, Nonlinear Optical Control of Chiral Charge Pumping in a Topological Weyl Semimetal, Phys. Rev. B 102, 245123 (2020).

- Mehdi Kargarian, مقاله مروری: مبانی توپولوژی در فهم و توسعه حالت های توپولوژیک مواد, مجله پژوهش فیزیک ایران (2020).

*Review article: Principles of topology in understanding and development of topological states of matter, Iranian Journal of Physics Research.

- Fatemeh Mirmojarabian, Mehdi Kargarian, Abdollah Langari, Phase diagram and thermal Hall conductivity of spin-liquid Kekulé-Kitaev model, Phys. Rev. B 101, 115116 (2020).

- Morteza Kayyalha, Mehdi Kargarian, A Kazakov, I Miotkowski, Victor M Galitski, Victor M Yakovenko, Leonid P Rokhinson, Yong P Chen, Anomalous low-temperature enhancement of supercurrent in topological-insulator nanoribbon Josephson junctions: evidence for low-energy Andreev bound states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047003 (2019).

- Hossein Hosseinabadi, Mehdi Kargarian, Vortex bound states of charge and magnetic fluctuations-induced topological superconductors in heterostructures , Phys. Rev. B 100, 144507 (2019).

- Rasoul Ghadimi, Mehdi Kargarian, S. Akbar Jafari, Competing superconducting phases in interacting two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling , Phys. Rev. B 99, 115122 (2019).

- Rasoul Ghadimi, Mehdi Kargarian, S. Akbar Jafari, Disorder and Zeeman coupling induced gap-filling states in the nodeless chiral superconducting Bi/Ni bilayer system , Phys. Rev. B 100, 024502 (2019).

- Mehdi Kargarian, Yuan-Ming Lu, Mohit Randeria, Deformation and Stability of Surface States in Dirac semimetals , Phys. Rev. B 97, 165129 (2018).

- Victor Galitski, Mehdi Kargarian, Sergey Zyzranov, Dynamo Effect and Turbulence in Hydrodynamic Weyl Metals , Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 176603 (2018).

*Editor Suggestion; Weyl Metals as Proxies for Astrophysical Dynamos, Synopsis.

- Saeed Jahromi, Roman Orus, Mehdi Kargarian, A Langari, Infinite Projected Entangled-Pair State algorithm for ruby and triangle-honeycomb lattices , Phys. Rev. B 97, 115161 (2018).

- Cody Youmans, Areg Ghazaryan, Mehdi Kargarian, Pouyan Ghaemi, Odd-frequency Pairing in the Edge States of Superconducting Pnictides in the Coexistence Phase with Antiferromagnetism , Phys. Rev. B 98, 144517 (2018).

- Xinxin Gong, Mehdi Kargarian, Alex Stern, Di Yue, Hexin Zhou, Xiaofeng Jin, Victor M. Galitski, Victor M. Yakovenko, Jing Xia, Time-Reversal-Symmetry-Breaking Superconductivity in Epitaxial Bismuth/Nickel Bilayers, Science Advances 3, e1602579 (2017).

**See the popular article "Tiny magnetic tremors unlock exotic superconductivity" in Joint Quantum Institute, Physics - UMD and physics.org.

- SS Jahromi, Mehdi Kargarian, SF Masoudi, A Langari, Topological spin liquids in the ruby lattice with anisotropic Kitaev interactions, Phys. Rev. B 94, 125145 (2016).

- Mehdi Kargarian, DK Efimkin, V Galitski, Amperean pairing at the surface of topological insulators, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076806 (2016).

- Mehdi Kargarian, M Randeria, YM Lu,Are the surface Fermi arcs in Dirac semimetals topologically protected?, PNAS, 201524787.

- S Hemmatiyan, M Rahimi Movassagh, N Ghassemi, Mehdi Kargarian, AT Rezakhani, A Langari, Quantum phase transitions in the Kondo-necklace model: perturbative continuous unitary transformation approach, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 27 (15), 155601.

- Nader Ghassemi, Shayan Hemmatiyan, Mahsa Rahimi Movassagh, Mehdi Kargarian, Ali T Rezakhani, Abdollah Langari, Quantum phase transitions in the Kondo-necklace model, APS Meeting Abstracts.

- Mehdi Kargarian, M Randeria, N Trivedi, Theory of Kerr and Faraday rotation in Topological Weyl Semimetals, APS Meeting Abstracts.

- Mehdi Kargarian, M Randeria, N Trivedi, Theory of Kerr and Faraday rotations and linear dichroism in Topological Weyl Semimetals, Scientific reports 5.

- SS Jahromi, SF Masoudi, Mehdi Kargarian, KP Schmidt, Quantum phase transitions out of a Z 2× Z 2 topological phase, Physical Review B 88 (21), 214411.

- Mehdi Kargarian, GA Fiete, Multiorbital effects on thermoelectric properties of strongly correlated materials, Physical Review B 88 (20), 205141.

- Jian Liu, Mehdi Kargarian, Mikhail Kareev, Ben Gray, Phil J Ryan, Alejandro Cruz, Nadeem Tahir, Yi-De Chuang, Jinghua Guo, James M Rondinelli, John W Freeland, Gregory A Fiete, Jak Chakhalian, Heterointerface engineered electronic and magnetic phases of NdNiO3 thin films, Nature communications 4, 2714.

- AB Khanikaevf, S Hossein Mousavi, Wang Kong Tse, Mehdi Kargarian, AH MacDonald, Gennady Shvets, Photonic topological insulators and robust edge states in bi-anisotropic metamaterials, Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on, 1-2.

- Mehdi Kargarian, GA Fiete, Topological crystalline insulators in transition metal oxides, Physical review letters 110 (15), 156403.

- SS Jahromi, Mehdi Kargarian, SF Masoudi, KP Schmidt, Robustness of a topological phase: Topological color code in a parallel magnetic field, Physical Review B 87 (9), 094413.

- Alexander B Khanikaev, S Hossein Mousavi, Wang-Kong Tse, Mehdi Kargarian, Allan H MacDonald, Gennady Shvets, Photonic topological insulators, Nature materials 12 (3), 233-239.

- Mehdi Kargarian, A Langari, GA Fiete, Unusual magnetic phases in the strong interaction limit of two-dimensional topological band insulators in transition metal oxides, Physical Review B 86 (20), 205124.

- Mehdi Kargarian, Implementation of single-qubit and CNOT gates by anyonic excitations of two-body topological color code Physics Letters A 376 (46), 3540-3545.

- Mehdi Kargarian, J Wen, GA Fiete, Mean field phase digram of the layered perovskite $\mathrm {(Li, Na) _2IrO_3} $ in the strong interaction limit: possible realization of spin liquid phases, Bulletin of the American Physical Society 57.

- GA Fiete, V Chua, Mehdi Kargarian, R Lundgren, A Rüegg, J Wen, V Zyuzin, Topological insulators and quantum spin liquids, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 44 (5), 845-859.

- Mehdi Kargarian, J Wen, GA Fiete, Mean field phase digram of the layered perovskite (Li, Na) 2IrO3 in the strong interaction limit: possible realization of spin liquid phases, APS March Meeting Abstracts.

- J Wen, Mehdi Kargarian, A Vaezi, GA Fiete, Doping the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model: A slave-boson approach, Physical Review B 84 (23), 235149.

- X Hu, Mehdi Kargarian, GA Fiete, Topological insulators and fractional quantum Hall effect on the ruby lattice, Physical Review B 84 (15), 155116.

- Mehdi Kargarian, J Wen, GA Fiete, Competing exotic topological insulator phases in transition-metal oxides on the pyrochlore lattice with distortion, Physical Review B 83 (16), 165112.

- J Wen, Mehdi Kargarian, G Fiete, Interaction and distortion driven topological phases in multi-band lattices, APS Meeting Abstracts.

- X Hu, Mehdi Kargarian, G Fiete, Topological insulators on the ruby lattice, APS Meeting Abstracts.

- Mehdi Kargarian, GA Fiete, Topological insulator in a non-Abelian lattice model and anyonic fermions in two-body color code model, APS Meeting Abstracts.

- Mehdi Kargarian, Implementation of single-qubit and CNOT gates by anyonic excitations of color code model with two-body interactions.

- Mehdi Kargarian, GA Fiete, Topological phases and phase transitions on the square-octagon lattice, Physical Review B 82 (8), 085106.

- Mehdi Kargarian, H Bombin, MA Martin-Delgado, Topological color codes and two-body quantum lattice Hamiltonians, New Journal of Physics 12 (2), 025018.

- H Bombin, Mehdi Kargarian, MA Martin-Delgado, Quantum 2-body Hamiltonian for topological color codes, Fortschritte der Physik 57 (11-12), 1103-1110.

- H Bombin, Mehdi Kargarian, MA Martin-Delgado, Interacting anyonic fermions in a two-body color code model, Physical Review B 80 (7), 075111.

- Mehdi Kargarian, Finite-temperature topological order in two-dimensional topological color codes, Physical Review A 80 (1), 012321.

- Mehdi Kargarian, R Jafari, A Langari, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and anisotropy effects on the entanglement of the Heisenberg model, Physical Review A 79 (4), 042319.

- R Jafari, Mehdi Kargarian, A Langari, M Siahatgar, Phase diagram and entanglement of the Ising model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactionPhysical Review B 78 (21), 214414.

- Mehdi Kargarian, Entanglement properties of topological color codes, Physical Review A 78 (6), 062312.

- Mehdi Kargarian, R Jafari, A Langari, Renormalization of entanglement in the anisotropic Heisenberg (X X Z) model, Physical Review A 77 (3), 032346.

- Mehdi Kargarian, R Jafari, A Langari, Renormalization of concurrence: the application of the quantum renormalization group to quantum-information systems, Physical Review A 76 (6), 060304.