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We study the characterization and realization of higher-order topological Anderson insulator (HOTAI) in non-Hermitian systems, where the non-Hermitian mechanism ensures extra symmetries as well as gain and loss disorder.We illuminate that…
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The concepts of topology have a profound impact on physics research spanning the fields of condensed matter, photonics and acoustics and predicting topological states that provide unprecedented versatility in routing and control of waves of…
The discovery of higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) has established a new paradigm for understanding symmetry-constrained boundary electronic states. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we demonstrate the emergence of HOTI…
The search for exotic new topological states of matter in widely accessible materials, for which the manufacturing process is mastered, is one of the major challenges of the current topological physics. Here we predict higher order…
We propose two mechanisms to realize the second order topological insulator (SOTI) state in spinless hexagonal lattices, viz., chemical modification and anti-Kekul\'e/Kekul\'e distortion of hexagonal lattice. Correspondingly, we construct…
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