TY - JOUR AU - Rivas Vargas, Ángel AU - Viyuela García, Óscar AU - Martín-Delgado Alcántara, Miguel Ángel PY - 2013 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.155141 SN - 1098-0121 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35608 T2 - Physical review B AB - Thermal noise can destroy topological insulators (TI). However, we demonstrate how TIs can be made stable in dissipative systems. To that aim, we introduce the notion of band Liouvillian as the dissipative counterpart of band Hamiltonian, and show a... LA - eng PB - American Physical Society KW - Markovian master equations KW - Quantized hall conductance KW - State KW - Phase KW - Dissipation. TI - Density-matrix Chern insulators: finite-temperature generalization of topological insulators TY - journal article VL - 88 ER -