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We introduce higher order polariton topological insulator (HOTI) realized with fractal array of microcavity pillars arranged into Sierpinski gasket-like geometry. This system exhibiting self similarity in different generations, can support…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Khalil Sabour , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Quantum spin-hall insulator (QSHI) processes nontrivial topology. We notice that the electronic structures of some particular QSHIs are favorable for realization of excitonic insulators (EIs). Using first-principles many-body perturbation…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Huaiyuan Yang , Jiaxi Zeng , Yuelin Shao , Yuanfeng Xu , Xi Dai , Xin-Zheng Li

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

We theoretically investigate a periodically driven semimetal based on a square lattice. The possibility of engineering both Floquet Topological Insulator featuring Floquet edge states and Floquet higher order topological insulating phase,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Ganesh C. Paul , Arijit Saha

Two new recently proposed classes of topological phases, namely fractons and higher order topological insulators (HOTIs), share at least superficial similarities. The wide variety of proposals for these phases calls for a universal field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-23 Yizhi You , F. J. Burnell , Taylor L. Hughes

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

We investigate the properties of a two-dimensional quasicrystal in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. In this configuration, the density of states (DOS) displays a Hofstadter butterfly-like structure when it is represented as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Duc-Thanh Tran , Alexandre Dauphin , Nathan Goldman , Pierre Gaspard

Despite the rapid progresses in the field of quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, most of the QSH systems studied up to now are based on crystalline materials. Here we propose that the QSH effect can be realized in quasicrystal lattices (QLs).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Huaqing Huang , Feng Liu

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…

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…

Correlated physics in nearly flat topological bands is a central theme in the study of moir\'e materials. While ground states at integer fillings are typically identified as quantum Hall ferromagnets within a Hartree-Fock framework, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Boran Zhou , Ya-Hui Zhang

Exploring novel topological matters with exotic quantum states has always been a core issue in the field of condensed matter physics, which can update the understanding of topological phases and broaden the classification of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Wei Jia , Yuping Tian , Huanhuan Yang , Xiangru Kong , Zhi-Hao Huang , Wei-Jiang Gong , Jun-Hong An

We propose that three-dimensional layered octagonal quasicrystals can host magnetic-field-tunable M\"{o}bius insulators and various higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), enabled by the interplay of quasicrystalline symmetry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Yuxiao Chen , Zhiming Xu , Citian Wang , Huaqing Huang

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…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-09 Hongfang Liu , Ji-Kun Zhou , Bing-Lan Wu , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang

The higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), with such as the topological corner states, emerge as a thriving topic in the field of topological physics. But few connections have been found for the HOTIs with the well explored…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Zhongbo Yan , Mou Yan , Weiyin Deng , Gang Chen , Zhengyou Liu

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Sergey S. Krishtopenko

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Shifeng Qian , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Yugui Yao

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with high Chern number host multiple dissipationless chiral edge channels, which are of fundamental interest and promising for applications in spintronics and quantum computing. However, only a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xiaolin Wan , Zhen Ning , Dong-Hui Xu , Baobing Zheng , Rui Wang