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Macroscopic two-dimensional sonic crystals with inversion symmetry are studied to reveal higher-order topological physics in classical wave systems. By tuning a single geometry parameter, the band topology of the bulk and the edges can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Zhan Xiong , Zhi-Kang Lin , Hai-Xiao Wang , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

We focus on a scenario of non-Hermitian bulk--boundary correspondence that uses a topological invariant defined in a bulk geometry under a modified periodic boundary condition. Although this has succeeded in describing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Chihiro Ishii , Yositake Takane

We study single-channel continuum models of one-dimensional insulators induced by periodic potential modulations which are either terminated by a hard wall (the boundary model) or feature a single region of dislocations and/or impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Sebastian Miles , Dante M. Kennes , Herbert Schoeller , Mikhail Pletyukhov

Both the physics and applications of fermionic symmetry-protected topological phases rely heavily on a principle known as bulk-boundary correspondence, which predicts the emergence of protected boundary-localized energy excitations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-10 Abhijeet Alase , Emilio Cobanera , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

In quantum many-body spin systems, the interplay between the entangling effect of multi-qubit Pauli measurements and the disentangling effect of single-qubit Pauli measurements may give rise to two competing effects. By introducing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Hiroki Sukeno , Kazuki Ikeda , Tzu-Chieh Wei

The conventional bulk-boundary correspondence breaks down in non-Hermitian systems. In this paper, we reestablish the bulk-boundary correspondence in one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems by applying the scattering theory, which is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Haoshu Li , Qian Niu

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit striking exceptions from the paradigmatic bulk-boundary correspondence, including the failure of bulk Bloch band invariants in predicting boundary states and the (dis)appearance of boundary states at parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Flore K. Kunst , Elisabet Edvardsson , Jan Carl Budich , Emil J. Bergholtz

A non-Hermitian Chern insulator with gain/loss-type non-Hermiticity shows a peculiar gap closing; when a nontrivial Chern insulator phase changes to a gapless phase, conduction and valence bands are combined into one band owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yositake Takane

Unlike a Chern number in $2$D and $3$D topological system, Zak phase takes a subtle role to characterize the topological phase in $1$D. On the one hand, it is not a gauge invariant, on the other hand, the Zak phase difference between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

The bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC), i.e. the direct relation between bulk topological invariants defined for infinite periodic systems and the occurrence of protected zero-energy surface states in finite samples, is a ubiquitous and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 Rebekka Koch , Jan Carl Budich

We derive a series of quantitative bulk-boundary correspondences for 3D bosonic and fermionic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases under the assumption that the surface is gapped, symmetric and topologically ordered, i.e., a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Shang-Qiang Ning , Bin-Bin Mao , Zhengqiao Li , Chenjie Wang

The synergy of non-Hermitian and topology renders the bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) even more elusive. Here we study a non-Hermitian Creutz ladder that incorporates both gain-loss and nonreciprocity, and construct multiple BBCs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Xin Li , TongYi Li , JingYu Peng , Yu Wang

The bulk-boundary correspondence, which relates topological properties of a material in the bulk to the presence of robust modes localized on the edge, is at the core of the now mature field of topological wave physics. More recently, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Renaud Cote , Marc Pachebat , Antonin Coutant

In this article, we propose a simple but general scaling relation between interactions in a gapped bulk topological matter and gapless interacting surface states. We explicitly illustrate such a generic bulk-boundary relation (BBR) for a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-08 Saran Vijayan , Fei Zhou

The bulk-boundary correspondence predicts the existence of boundary modes localized at the edges of topologically nontrivial systems. The wavefunctions of hermitian boundary modes can be obtained as the eigenmodes of a modified Jackiw-Rebbi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Pasquale Marra , Angela Nigro

The bulk-edge correspondence is a condensed matter theorem that relates the conductance of a Hall insulator in a half-plane to that of its (straight) boundary. In this work, we extend this result to domains with curved boundaries. Under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Alexis Drouot , Xiaowen Zhu

Various unusual behaviors of artificial materials are governed by their topological properties, among which the edge state at the boundary of a photonic or phononic lattice has been captivated as a popular notion. However, this remarkable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Minghong Qi , Dong Wang , Pei-Chao Cao , Xue-Feng Zhu , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Hongsheng Chen , Ying Li

Recently, optical lattices with non-zero Berry's phases of Bloch bands have been realized. New approaches for measuring Berry's phases and topological properties of bands with experimental tools appropriate for ultracold atoms need to be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-19 Dmitry A. Abanin , Takuya Kitagawa , Immanuel Bloch , Eugene Demler

Despite the extensive studies of topological states, their characterization in strongly nonlinear classical systems has been lacking. In this work, we identify the proper definition of Berry phase for nonlinear bulk modes and characterize…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-22 Di Zhou , D. Zeb Rocklin , Michael Leamy , Yugui Yao

Nonlinear transport has emerged as a powerful approach to probe the quantum geometry of electronic wavefunctions, such as Berry curvature and quantum metric, in topological materials. While nonlinear responses governed by bulk quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Deyi Zhuo , Xiaoda Liu , Huu-Thong Le , Annie G. Wang , Han Tay , Bomin Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Binghai Yan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang