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Three dimensional topological insulator crystals consist of an insulating bulk enclosed by metallic surfaces, and detailed theoretical predictions about the surface state band topology and spin texture are available. While several…

The recent discovery of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) has significantly extended our understanding of topological phases of matter. Here, we predict that second-order corner states can emerge in the dipolar-coupled dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Z. -X. Li , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

Heavy fermion materials have recently attracted attention for their potential to combine topological protection with strongly correlated electron physics. To date, the ideas of topological protection have been restricted to the heavy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-03 Po-Yao Chang , Onur Erten , Piers Coleman

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…

We discuss physical constructions, and the boundary properties of various symmetry protected topological phases that involve 1-form symmetries, from one spatial dimension (1d) to four spatial dimensions (4d). For example, the prototype 3d…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Chao-Ming Jian , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Yichen Xu , Cenke Xu

We construct a model of a three-dimensional chiral second-order topological insulator (SOTI) from an array of weakly coupled nanowires. We show that, in a suitable parameter regime, the interplay between rotating magnetic fields and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Viktoriia Pinchenkova , Katharina Laubscher , Jelena Klinovaja

Recently, the theory of quantized dipole polarization has been extended to account for electric multipole moments, giving rise to the discovery of multipole topological insulators (TIs). Both two-dimensional (2D) quadrupole and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Wenjing He , Jiacheng Bao , Qingsong Pei , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

A van der Waals material, MoTe2 with a monoclinic 1T' crystal structure is a candidate for three-dimensional (3D) second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) hosting gapless hinge states and insulating surface states. However, due to the…

Generally, the topological corner state in two-dimensional second-order topological insulator (2D SOTI) is equivalent to the well-known domain wall state, originated from the mass-inversion between two adjacent edges with phase shift of pi.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Gan Zhao , Haimen Mu , Huimin Zhang , Z. F. Wang

Recent attempts at topological materials have revealed a large class of materials that show gapless surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry and crystal symmetries. Among them, topological insulating states protected by crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-20 J. Howard , A. Rodriguez , N. Haldolaarachchige , K. Hettiarachchilage

The discovery of quadrupole topology opens a new horizon in the study of topological phenomena. However, the existing experimental realizations of quadrupole topological insulators in symmorphic lattices with $\pi$-fluxes often break the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Zhi-Kang Lin , Hai-Xiao Wang , Zhan Xiong , Ming-Hui Lu , Jian-Hua Jiang

Heterostructures composed of two-dimensional (2D) materials are already opening many new possibilities in such fields of technology as electronics and magnonics, but far more could be achieved if the number and diversity of 2D materials is…

We explore the phase diagrams of moir\'e materials in search of a new class of intervalley-coherent correlated insulating state: the Chern texture insulator (CTI). This phase of matter, proposed in a companion paper, breaks valley $U(1)$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Ziwei Wang , Yves H. Kwan , Glenn Wagner , Steven H. Simon , Nick Bultinck , S. A. Parameswaran

In recent years, the role of crystal symmetries in enriching the variety of TIs have been actively investigated. Higher-order TIs are a new type of topological crystalline insulators that exhibit gapless boundary states whose dimensionality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-20 Akishi Matsugatani , Haruki Watanabe

Electronic materials harbor a plethora of exotic quantum phases, ranging from unconventional superconductors to non-Fermi liquids, and, more recently, topological phases of matter. While these quantum phases in integer dimensions are well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Sourav Manna , Snehasish Nandy , Bitan Roy

I consider higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) created in chi(2) nonlinear medium and based on two-dimensional generalization of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger waveguide array, where transition between trivial and topological phases is…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-03 Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Recently, the concept of topological insulators has been generalized to topological semimetals, including three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals, 3D Dirac semimetals, and 3D node-line semimetals. In particular, several compounds (e.g.,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-07 J. L. Lu , W. Luo , X. Y. Li , S. Q. Yang , J. X. Cao , X. G. Gong , H. J. Xiang

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) states are bulk gapped states with gapless edge excitations protected by certain symmetries. The SPT phases in free fermion systems, like topological insulators, can be classified by the K-theory.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-08 Xie Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Zheng-Xin Liu , Xiao-Gang Wen

The recent discovery of topological insulators has revived interest in the topological properties of insulating band structures. In this work, we extend the topological classification of insulating band structures to include certain point…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-15 Liang Fu

Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest additions to the field, the material class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-01 Leslie Schoop , Florian Pielnhofer , Bettina Lotsch