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The concept of topological phases has been generalized to higher-order topological insulators and superconductors with novel boundary states on corners or hinges. Meanwhile, recent experimental advances in controlling dissipation (such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

In this work, we present a collection of three-dimensional higher-order symmetry protected topological phases (HOSPTs) with gapless hinge modes that exist only in strongly interacting systems subject to subsystem symmetry constraints. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-29 Julian May-Mann , Yizhi You , Taylor L. Hughes , Zhen Bi

Strong disorder drives conventional Hermitian systems into Anderson insulating states, suppressing all topological phases. Here, we unveil symmetry-protected, anomalous topological phases in the strong disorder limit of a non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mina Ren , Xi Shi , Haitao Jiang , Feng Liu , Hong Chen , Yong Sun

We report finite-size topology in the quintessential time-reversal (TR) invariant systems, the quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) and the three-dimensional, strong topological insulator (STI): previously-identified helical or Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 R. Flores-Calderón , Roderich Moessner , Ashley M. Cook

Momentum-space nonsymmorphic symmetries, stemming from the projective algebra of synthetic gauge fields, can modify the manifold of the Brillouin zone and lead to a variety of topological phenomena. We present an acoustic realization of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Jinbing Hu , Kai Zhou , Tianle Song , Xuntao Jiang , Songlin Zhuang , Yi Yang

Second-order topological insulators are crystalline insulators with a gapped bulk and gapped crystalline boundaries, but topologically protected gapless states at the intersection of two boundaries. Without further spatial symmetries, five…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Josias Langbehn , Yang Peng , Luka Trifunovic , Felix von Oppen , Piet W. Brouwer

We propose a new correlated topological state which we call a higher-order topological Mott insulator (HOTMI). This state exhibits a striking bulk-boundary correspondence due to electron correlations. Namely, the topological properties in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Koji Kudo , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) have been recognized as a new class of quantum state of matter. They are distinguished from normal 2D insulators with their nontrivial band-structure topology identified by the $Z_2$ number as…

The skin effect and topological edge states in non-Hermitian system have been well-studied, and the second-order skin effect and corner modes have also been proposed in non-Hermitian system recently. In this paper, we construct the nested…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yongxu Fu , Jihan Hu , Shaolong Wan

Recently, high-order topological insulators (HOTIs), accompanied by topologically nontrivial boundary states with codimension larger than one, have been extensively explored because of unconventional bulk-boundary correspondences. As a…

The higher order topological insulator (HOTI) has enticed enormous research interests owing to its novelty in supporting gapless states along the hinges of the crystal. Despite several theoretical predictions, enough experimental…

We propose a two-dimensional non-Hermitian Chern insulator with inversion symmetry, which is anisotropic and has staggered gain and loss in both x and y directions. In this system, conventional bulk-boundary correspondence holds. The Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

A second-order topological insulator on a two-dimensional square lattice hosts zero-dimensional states inside a band gap. They are localized near $90^{\circ}$ and $270^{\circ}$ corners constituting an edge of the system. When the edge is in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Yuki Nagasato , Yositake Takane , Yukinori Yoshimura , Shin Hayashi , Takeshi Nakanishi

Topological phases in quantum and classical systems have been of significant recent interest due to their fascinating physical properties. While a range of different mechanisms to induce topological order have been introduced, a quest for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Higher-order phases are characterized by corner or hinge modes that arise due to the interesting interplay of localization mechanisms along two or more dimensions. In this work, we introduce and construct a novel class of "hybrid"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Ching Hua Lee , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

The recent discoveries of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have shifted the paradigm of topological materials, which was previously limited to topological states at boundaries of materials, to those at boundaries of boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Weiwei Zhu , Haoran Xue , Jiangbin Gong , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

Two-dimensional (2D) laser arrays are shown to be achievable at a large scale by exploiting the interplay of higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) physics and the so-called non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). The higher-order topology…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-23 Wei Xin Teo , Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

Robustness of helical hinge states of three-dimensional weak second-order topological i sulators (WSOTIs) against disorders is studied. The pure WSOTI is obtained from a weak $\mathbb{Z}_2$ first-order topological insulator through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 C. Wang , X. R. Wang

Recently extended from the modern theory of electric polarization, quantized multipole topological insulators (QMTIs) describe higher-order multipole moments, lying in nested Wilson loops, which are inherently quantized by lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Xiang Ni , Mengyao Li , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Synchronized rotation of unit cells in a periodic structure provides a novel design perspective for manipulation of band topology. We then design a two-dimensional version of higher-order topological insulators (HOTI), by such rotation in a…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-05 R. Zhou , H. Lin , Y. Wu , Z. Li , Z. Yu , Y. Liu , Dong-Hui Xu