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The bulk-boundary correspondence of the second-order topological insulator (SOTI) has been well established, but a universal transport signature for open systems is still absent. For a variety of SOTIs induced by applying in-plane magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Yuxiong Long^§ , Miaomiao Wei^§ , Fuming Xu , Jian Wang

Hopf insulators represent a unique class of topological insulators that exist exclusively in two-band systems and are inherently unstable upon the inclusion of additional bands. Meanwhile, recent studies have shown that non-Hermiticity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Daichi Nakamura , Kohei Kawabata

Search for higher-order topological insulators, characterized by topologically protected gapless boundary states of codimension higher than one, in bosonic systems has attracted growing interest. Here, we establish twisted bilayer honeycomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-16 Chun-Bo Hua , Feiping Xiao , Zheng-Rong Liu , Jin-Hua Sun , Jin-Hua Gao , Chui-Zhen Chen , Qingjun Tong , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Nodal-line semimetals are commonly believed to exist in $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric or mirror-rotation symmetric systems. Here, we find a flux-induced parameter-dimensional second-order nodal-line semimetal (SONLS) in a two-dimensional system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

We identify the possibility of realizing higher order topological (HOT) phases in noncrystalline or amorphous materials. Starting from two and three dimensional crystalline HOT insulators, accommodating topological corner states, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Adhip Agarwala , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

For conventional topological phases, the boundary gapless modes are determined by bulk topological invariants. Based on developing an analytic method to solve higher-order boundary modes, we present $PT$-invariant $2$D topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Kai Wang , Jia-Xiao Dai , L. B. Shao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Y. X. Zhao

Non-Hermitian models describe the physics of ubiquitous open systems with gain and loss. One intriguing aspect of non-Hermitian models is their inherent topology that can produce intriguing boundary phenomena like resilient higher-order…

We show that the bulk-boundary correspondence for topological insulators can be modified in the presence of non-Hermiticity. We consider a one-dimensional tight-binding model with gain and loss as well as long-range hopping. The system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Tony E. Lee

Second-order topological insulator, which has (d-2)-dimensional topological hinge or corner states, has been observed in three-dimensional materials, but has yet not been observed in two-dimensional system. In this Letter, we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Zheng Liu , Yafei Ren , Yulei Han , Qian Niu , Zhenhua Qiao

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are described by symmetric exponentially decayed Wannier functions at some $necessary$ unoccupied Wyckoff positions and classified as obstructed atomic insulators (OAIs) in the topological quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-27 Da-Shuai Ma , Kejun Yu , Xiao-Ping Li , Xiaoyuan Zhou , Rui Wang

The notion of topological insulators (TIs), characterized by an insulating bulk and conducting topological surface states, can be extended to higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) hosting gapless modes localized at the boundaries of…

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane

We provide the first unbiased evidence for a higher-order topological Mott insulator in three dimensions by numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations. This insulating phase is adiabatically connected to a third-order topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-26 Yuichi Otsuka , Tsuneya Yoshida , Koji Kudo , Seiji Yunoki , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The orbital degrees of freedom play a pivotal role in understanding fundamental phenomena in solid-state materials as well as exotic quantum states of matter including orbital superfluidity and topological semimetals. Despite tremendous…

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

Quasicrystals allow for symmetries that are impossible in crystalline materials, such as eight-fold rotational symmetry, enabling the existence of novel higher-order topological insulators in two dimensions without crystalline counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Yu-Feng Mao , Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Qi-Bo Zeng , Yong Xu

In this work we develop a theoretical framework for the control of corner modes in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) featuring long-range hoppings and diverse geometries, enabling precise tunability of their spatial positions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

The recent discovery of higher-order topological insulators (TIs) has opened new possibilities in the search for novel topological materials and metamaterials. Second-order TIs have been implemented in two-dimensional (2D) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Haoran Xue , Yahui Yang , Guigeng Liu , Fei Gao , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

Second-order topological insulating (SOTI) states in three-dimensional materials are helical one-dimensional hinge states. Inducing superconductivity in these states leads to gapless bound states, characterized by the 4$\pi$-periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Biplab Bhattacharyya , Stijn R. de Wit , Zhen Wu , Yingkai Huang , Mark S. Golden , Alexander Brinkman , Chuan Li

2D topological insulators promise novel approaches towards electronic, spintronic, and quantum device applications. This is owing to unique features of their electronic band structure, in which bulk-boundary correspondences enforces the…