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Buckled honeycomb group-$V$--$S_6$ symmetric $(d-2)$ higher order topological insulators

Materials Science 2020-09-09 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Higher Order Topological Insulators (HOTI) are dd-spatial dimensional systems featuring topologically protected gap-less states at their (dn)(d-n)-dimensional boundaries. With the help of \textit{ab-initio} calculations and tight binding models along with symmetry considerations we show that monolayer buckled honeycomb structures of group-V elements (Sb,As), which have already been synthesized, belong in this category and have a charge fractionalization of e2\frac{e}{2} at the corner states as well as weak topological edge states, all protected by their properties under the inversion operation which classify this system as a quadrupole topological insulator.

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@article{arxiv.2003.12656,
  title  = {Buckled honeycomb group-$V$--$S_6$ symmetric $(d-2)$ higher order topological insulators},
  author = {Santosh Kumar Radha and Walter R. L. Lambrecht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12656},
  year   = {2020}
}