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Magnetic second-order topological insulators and semimetals

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-04-25 v1

Abstract

We propose magnetic second-order topological insulators (SOTIs). First, we study a three-dimensional model. It is pointed out that the previously proposed topological hinge insulator has actually surface states along the [001] direction in addition to hinge states. We gap out these surface states by introducing magnetization, obtaining a SOTI only with hinge states. The bulk topological number is the Z2Z_2 index protected by the combined symmetry of the four-fold rotation and the inversion symmetry. We next study two dimensional magnetic SOTIs, where the corner states are robust also in the presence of the magnetization. Finally, we construct a magnetic second-order topological semimetals by layering the two-dimensional magnetic SOTIs, where hinge-arc states are robust also in the presence of the magnetization.

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@article{arxiv.1802.03571,
  title  = {Magnetic second-order topological insulators and semimetals},
  author = {Motohiko Ezawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03571},
  year   = {2018}
}

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4 pages, 7 figures

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