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The higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) is a new type of topological system which has special bulkedge correspondence compared with conventional topological insulators. In this work, we propose a scheme to realize Floquet HOTI in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-29 Ying Lei , Xi-Wang Luo , Shaoliang Zhang

We identify the possibility of realizing higher order topological (HOT) phases in noncrystalline or amorphous materials. Starting from two and three dimensional crystalline HOT insulators, accommodating topological corner states, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Adhip Agarwala , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

We study the homotopy classification of symmetry representations to describe the bulk topological invariants protected by the combined operation of a two-fold rotation $C_{2z}$ and time-reversal $T$ symmetries. We define topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Junyeong Ahn , Bohm-Jung Yang

Floquet phases of matter have attracted great attention due to their dynamical and topological nature that are unique to nonequilibrium settings. In this work, we introduce a generic way of taking any integer $q$th-root of the evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Longwen Zhou , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Shenlin Wu

Topological insulators (TIs) are a recently discovered class of materials having insulating bulk electronic states but conducting boundary states distinguished by nontrivial topology. So far, several generations of TIs have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-23 Z. F. Wang , Zheng Liu , Feng Liu

We unravel a fundamental connection between supersymmetry and a wide class of two dimensional second-order topological insulators (SOTI). This particular supersymmetry is induced by applying a half-integer Aharonov-Bohm flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Clara S. Weber , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Zhe Hou , Dante M. Kennes , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss , Herbert Schoeller

We expand the concept of two-dimensional topological insulators to encompass a novel category known as topological dipole insulators (TDIs), characterized by conserved dipole moments along the $x$-direction in addition to charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Ho Tat Lam , Jung Hoon Han , Yizhi You

In this work we develop a theoretical framework for the control of corner modes in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) featuring long-range hoppings and diverse geometries, enabling precise tunability of their spatial positions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

We study positions of chiral hinge states in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) with inversion symmetry. First, we exhaust all possible configurations of the hinge states in the HOTIs in all type-I magnetic space groups with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Yutaro Tanaka , Ryo Takahashi , Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

Square-root higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are recently discovered new topological phases, with intriguing topological properties inherited from a parent lattice Hamiltonian. Different from conventional HOTIs, the square-root…

The topological classifications of quadratic bosonic systems according to the symmetries of the dynamic matrices from the equations of motion of closed systems and the effective Hamiltonians from the Lindblad equations of open systems are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien

Topological phases of matter are classified based on symmetries, with nonsymmorphic symmetries like glide reflections and screw rotations being of particular importance in the classification. In contrast to extensively studied glide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Yu-Liang Tao , Mou Yan , Mian Peng , Qiang Wei , Zhenxing Cui , Shengyuan A. Yang , Gang Chen , Yong Xu

We argue that various kinds of topological insulators (TIs) can be insightfully characterized by an inspection of the charge centers of the hybrid Wannier functions, defined as the orbitals obtained by carrying out a Wannier transform on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Maryam Taherinejad , Kevin F. Garrity , David Vanderbilt

We develop a chiral anomalous fermion hamiltonian proposal to study the higher order topological (HOT) phase with chiral symmetry $\mathcal{C}$ fractionalized like $\mathcal{C}_{x}\mathcal{C}_{y}\mathcal{C}_{z}$. First, we solve the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 L. B. Drissi , S. Lounis , E. H. Saidi

Higher-order topological phases are characterized by protected states localized at the corners or hinges of the system. By applying time-periodic quenches to a two-dimensional lattice with balanced gain and loss, we obtain a rich variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

Higher order topological insulators (HOTI) have emerged as a new class of phases, whose robust in-gap "corner" modes arise from the bulk higher-order multipoles beyond the dipoles in conventional topological insulators. Here, we incorporate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-02 Biao Huang , W. Vincent Liu

The surface of a higher order topological insulator (HOTI) comprises a two-dimensional topological insulator (TI) with broken inversion symmetry, whose mass is determined by the microscopic details of the surface such as surface potentials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Raquel Queiroz , Ady Stern

Using first-principles calculations within density functional theory, we explore the feasibility of converting ternary half-Heusler compounds into a new class of three-dimensional topological insulators (3DTI). We demonstrate that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-07 Di Xiao , Yugui Yao , Wanxiang Feng , Jun Wen , Wenguang Zhu , Xingqiu Chen , G. Malcolm Stocks , Zhenyu Zhang

Ferroelectric higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) exhibit tunable physical properties arising from the interplay between ferroelectric polarization and band topology. This work investigates the topological origin of two classes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 YingJie Hu , Heng Gao , Yabei Wu , Wei Ren

We give field theory descriptions of the time-reversal invariant quantum spin Hall insulator in 2+1 dimensions and the particle-hole symmetric insulator in 1+1 dimensions in terms of massive Dirac fermions. Integrating out the massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-27 Andreas Karch , Joseph Maciejko , Tadashi Takayanagi