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Topological magnon insulators exhibit robust edge modes with chiral properties similar to quantum Hall edge states. However, due to their strong localization at the edges, interactions between these chiral edge magnons can be significant,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-12 Stefan Birnkammer , Michael Knap , Johannes Knolle , Alexander Mook , Alvise Bastianello

In this study we analyze the topological invariants and edge states of transverse magnetic wave propagation in continuum photonic systems at a finite-width interface between two gyrotropic matrials with different magnetic bias. Where…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Matthew Frazier , Guillaume Bal

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

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a generic feature of topological states of matter, reflecting the intrinsic relation between topological bulk and boundary states. For example, robust edge states propagate along the edges and corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Hong Yao

A modified periodic boundary condition adequate for non-hermitian topological systems is proposed. Under this boundary condition a topological number characterizing the system is defined in the same way as in the corresponding hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yositake Takane

A hallmark feature of topological physics is the presence of one-way propagating chiral modes at the system boundary. The chirality of edge modes is a consequence of the topological character of the bulk. For example, in a non-interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sunil Mittal , Sriram Ganeshan , Jingyun Fan , Abolhassan Vaezi , Mohammad Hafezi

Understanding topological phases of matter is essential for advancing both the fundamental theory and practical applications of condensed matter physics. Recently, a theoretical framework for a quantum Hall system with an expanding edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Yuuki Sugiyama , Tokiro Numasawa

Robust topological edge modes may evolve into complex-frequency modes when a physical system becomes non-Hermitian. We show that, while having negligible forward optical extinction cross section, a conjugate pair of such complex topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 C. W. Ling , Ka Hei Choi , T. C. Mok , Z. Q. Zhang , Kin Hung Fung

We investigate the role of self-adjoint extensions in the bulk-edge correspondence for topological insulators. While the correspondence is well understood in discrete models with spectral gaps, complications arise in the presence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Johannes Kellendonk , Tom Stoiber

In this paper, we introduce a variation of the notion of topological phase reflecting metric structure of the position space. This framework contains not only periodic and non-periodic systems with symmetries in Kitaev's periodic table but…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Yosuke Kubota

Atmospheric and oceanic mass transport near the equator display a well-studied asymmetry characterized by two modes moving eastward. This asymmetric edge transport is characteristic of interfaces separating two-dimensional topological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Guillaume Bal , Jiming Yu

The breakdown of conventional bulk-boundary correspondence, a cornerstone of topological physics, is one of counter-intuitive phenomena in non-Hermitian systems, that is deeply rooted in symmetry. In particular, preserved chiral symmetry is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Miao Zhang , Yue Zhang , Shuai Li , Rui Tian , Tianhao Wu , Yingchao Xu , Yi-an Li , Yuanbang Wei , Hong Gao , M. Suhail Zubairy , Fuli Li , Bo Liu

The bulk-edge correspondence links the Chern-topological numbers with the net number of unidirectional states supported at an interface of the relevant materials. This fundamental principle is perhaps the most consequential result of…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-06 Mario G. Silveirinha

The bulk-boundary correspondence relates topologically-protected edge modes to bulk topological invariants, and is well-understood for short-range free-fermion chains. Although case studies have considered long-range Hamiltonians whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Nick G. Jones , Ryan Thorngren , Ruben Verresen

In these decades, it has been gradually established that edge modes of a wide class of topologically ordered systems are governed by the bulk-edge correspondence and anyon condensation. The former has been studied many times because it can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-09 Yoshiki Fukusumi

Bulk boundary correspondence in topological materials allows to study their bulk topology through the investigation of their topological boundary modes. However, for classes that share similar boundary phenomenology, the growing diversity…

As first demonstrated by the characterization of the quantum Hall effect by the Chern number, topology provides a guiding principle to realize robust properties of condensed matter systems immune to the existence of disorder. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Kazuki Sone , Motohiko Ezawa , Yuto Ashida , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takahiro Sagawa

Finite topologically non-trivial systems are often characterised by the presence of bound states at their physical edges. These topological edge modes can be distinguished from usual Shockley waves energetically, as their energies remain…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-31 Callum W. Duncan , Patrik Öhberg , Manuel Valiente

In a finite one-dimensional non-Hermitian system, the number of zero modes does not necessarily reflect the topology of the system. This is known as the breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence and has led to misconceptions about the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-06 K. Monkman , J. Sirker

Dislocations are ubiquitous in three-dimensional solid-state materials. The interplay of such real space topology with the emergent band topology defined in reciprocal space gives rise to gapless helical modes bound to the line defects.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Liping Ye , Chunyin Qiu , Meng Xiao , Tianzi Li , Juan Du , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu