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The discovery of topological phases of matter and topological boundary states had tremendous impact on condensed matter physics and photonics, where topological phases are defined via energy bands, giving rise to topological band theory.…

Recently, real topological phases protected by $PT$ symmetry have been actively investigated. In two dimensions, the corresponding topological invariant is the Stiefel-Whitney number. A recent theoretical advance is that in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Qing Liu , Kai Wang , Jia-Xiao Dai , Y. X. Zhao

Two-dimensional Euler insulators are novel kind of systems that host multi-gap topological phases, quantified by a quantised first Euler number in their bulk. Recently, these phases have been experimentally realised in suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Adrien Bouhon , Yan-Qing Zhu , Robert-Jan Slager , Giandomenico Palumbo

We comment on the recent paper ``Floquet non-Abelian topological insulator and multifold bulk-edge correspondence" by Tianyu Li and Haiping Hu, Nat. Comm. {\bf 14}, 6418 (2023). Apart from the fact that the authors unjustly imply to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Robert-Jan Slager , Adrien Bouhon , F. Nur Ünal

Topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems have attracted a lot of attention due to their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. In this study, we propose a periodically driven non-Hermitian lattice model in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the topological phases. Recent studies of hopping models…

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

A universal feature of topological insulators is that they cannot be adiabatically connected to an atomic limit, where individual lattice sites are completely decoupled. This property is intimately related to a topological obstruction to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Masaya Nakagawa , Robert-Jan Slager , Sho Higashikawa , Takashi Oka

We construct a generic two-band model which can describe topological Weyl semimetals with multiple closed Weyl loops. All the existing multi-Weyl-loop semimetals including the nodal-net, or nodal-chain and Hopf-link states can be examined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Yao Zhou , Feng Xiong , Xiangang Wan , Jin An

Topological insulators are noninteracting, gapped fermionic systems which have gapless boundary excitations. They are characterized by topological invariants, which can be written in many different ways, including in terms of Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Andrew M. Essin , Victor Gurarie

Pontrjagin's seminal topological classification of two-band Hamiltonians in three momentum dimensions is hereby enriched with the inclusion of a crystallographic rotational symmetry. The enrichment is attributed to a new topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Aleksandra Nelson , Titus Neupert , A. Alexandradinata , Tomáš Bzdušek

We consider nontrivial topological phases in Floquet systems using unitary loops and stroboscopic evolutions under a static Floquet Hamiltonian $H_F$ in the presence of dynamical space-time symmetries $G$. While the latter has been subject…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Ilyoun Na , Jack Kemp , Robert-Jan Slager , Yang Peng

Topological phases characterized by non-Abelian charges have garnered increasing attention recently. Although Floquet (periodic-driving) higher-order topological phases have been explored at the single-particle level, the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Yujie Zhou , Changsen Li , Xiumei Wang , Xingping Zhou

Floquet engineering offers an unparalleled platform for realizing novel non-equilibrium topological phases. However, the unique structure of Floquet systems, which includes multiple quasienergy gaps, poses a significant challenge to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Chen-Yang Wang , Jing-Ping Xu , Ce Wang , Ya-Ping Yang

Time-periodic (Floquet) topological phases of matter exhibit bulk-edge relationships that are more complex than static topological insulators and superconductors. Finding the edge modes unique to driven systems usually requires numerics.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-28 Indubala I. Satija , Erhai Zhao

Flat-band states in topological systems provide a unique platform for investigating strongly correlated phenomena and many body physics. However, in 2D static tight-binding systems, perfectly flat bands can only exist in the topologically…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-28 Bo Leng , Vien Van

Mechanical topological insulators are well understood for linear and weakly nonlinear systems, however traditional analysis methods break down for strongly nonlinear systems since linear methods can not be applied in that case. We study one…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Joshua R. Tempelman , Kathryn H. Matlack , Alexander F. Vakakis

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

We introduce a class of topological lasers based on the photonic Floquet topological insulator concept. The proposed system is realized as a truncated array of the lasing helical waveguides, where the pseudo-magnetic field arises due to…

Higher-order topological~(HOT) states,~hosting topologically protected modes on lower-dimensional boundaries,~such as hinges and corners, have recently extended the realm of the static topological phases.~Here we demonstrate the possibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Tanay Nag , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy