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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

Higher-order topological insulators have attracted significant interest in recent years. However, identifying a universal topological invariant capable of characterizing higher-order topology remains challenging. Here, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu-Long Zhang , Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Jian-Jun Liu , Ying-Tao Zhang

Discrete degrees of freedom, such as spin and orbital, can provide intriguing strategies to manipulate electrons, photons, and phonons. With a spin degree of freedom, topological insulators have stimulated intense interests in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Jingwen Ma , Xiang Xi , Yuan Li , Xiankai Sun

Recent studies have extended the notion of band topology to nonlinear systems by defining nonlinear counterparts of eigenvalue problems. They have found the nonlinearity-induced topological transition, while it has required complicated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Kazuki Sone , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Topological insulators are unique devices supporting unidirectional edge states at their interfaces. Due to topological protection, such edge states persist in the presence of disorder and do not experience backscattering upon interaction…

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

In this paper, we discuss the characteristic features of one-dimensional topological insulators with inversion symmetry but noncentered inversion axis in the unit cell, for any choice of the unit cell. In these systems, the global inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 A. M. Marques , R. G. Dias

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) represent a family of topological phases that go beyond the conventional bulkboundary correspondence. d-dimensional n-th order HOTIs maintain (d - n)-dimensional gapless boundary states (in…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-12 Rujiang Li , Wencai Wang , Yongtao Jia , Ying Liu , Pengfei Li , Boris A. Malomed

Recent studies of disorder or non-Hermiticity induced topological insulators inject new ingredients for engineering topological matter. Here we consider the effect of purely non-Hermitian disorders, a combination of these two ingredients,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

Higher-order topological phases of matter have been extensively studied in various areas of physics. While the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example to study topological phases, it has not been explored whether a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Qi-Bo Zeng , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

Topological band theory has conventionally been concerned with the topology of bands around a single gap. Only recently non-Abelian {topologies that thrive on involving multiple gaps} were studied, unveiling a new horizon {in topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Bin Jiang , Adrien Bouhon , Shi-Qiao Wu , Ze-Lin Kong , Zhi-Kang Lin , Robert-Jan Slager , Jian-Hua Jiang

Topological insulators are crystalline materials that have revolutionized our ability to control wave transport. They provide us with unidirectional channels that are immune to obstacles, defects or local disorder, and can even survive some…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

The hallmark of topological crystalline insulators is the emergence of a robust electronic state in a bandgap localized at the boundary of the material. However, end, edge, and surface states can also have a nontopological origin.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 R. A. M. Ligthart , M. A. J. Herrera , A. Visser , A. Vlasblom , D. Bercioux , I. Swart

A powerful result of topological band theory is that nontrivial phases manifest obstructions to constructing localized Wannier functions. In Chern insulators, it is impossible to construct Wannier functions that respect translational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Todd Van Mechelen , Robert-Jan Slager , Sathwik Bharadwaj , Zubin Jacob

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological systems are inherently robust to disorder and continuous perturbations, resulting in dissipation-free edge transport of electrons in quantum solids, or reflectionless guiding of photons and phonons in classical wave systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

A $d$-dimensional second-order topological insulator (SOTI) can host topologically protected $(d - 2)$-dimensional gapless boundary modes. Here we show that a 2D non-Hermitian SOTI can host zero-energy modes at its corners. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tao Liu , Yu-Ran Zhang , Qing Ai , Zongping Gong , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda , Franco Nori

A salient feature of solid-state topological materials in two dimensions is the presence of conducting electronic edge states that are insensitive to scattering by disorder. Such unidirectional edge states have been explored in many…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman

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

Circuits provide ideal platforms of topological phases and matter, yet the study of topological circuits in the strongly nonlinear regime, has been lacking. We propose and experimentally demonstrate strongly nonlinear topological phases and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Jijie Tang , Fangyuan Ma , Feng Li , Honglian Guo , Di Zhou
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