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Periodic driving provides a platform to dynamically tailor quantum states of matter, yet its impact on symmetry-protected topological phases remains incompletely understood. Here, we demonstrate that periodic driving enables the realization…

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

We establish an analytic low-energy theory describing higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) phases in quasicrystalline systems. We apply this to a model consisting of two stacked Haldane models with oppositely propagating edge modes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Stephen Spurrier , Nigel R. Cooper

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have attracted increasing interest as a unique class of topological quantum materials. One distinct property of HOTIs is the crystalline symmetry-imposed topological state at the lower-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-25 Xiaoyin Li , Feng Liu

High-order topological insulators (HOTIs), as generalized from topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), are characterized with lower-dimensional metallic boundary states protected by spatial symmetries of a crystal, whose theoretical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Citian Wang , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang

A higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) in two dimensions is an insulator without metallic edge states but with robust zero-dimensional topological boundary modes localized at its corners. Yet, these corner modes do not carry a clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-09 Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

Current understanding of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) is based primarily on crystalline materials. Here, we propose that HOTIs can be realized in quasicrystals. Specifically, we show that two distinct types of second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Rui Chen , Chui-Zhen Chen , Jin-Hua Gao , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

The properties of topological systems are inherently tied to their dimensionality. Higher-dimensional physical systems exhibit topological properties not shared by their lower dimensional counterparts and, in general, offer richer physics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Kai Chen , Matthew Weiner , Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , 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

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) represent a novel class of topological materials, characterised by the emergence of topological boundary modes at dimensions two or more lower than those of bulk materials. Recent experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yong-Bin Choi , Jinho Park , Woochan Jung , Sein Park , Mazhar N. Ali , Gil-Ho Lee

In higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), topologically nontrivial phases are usually associated with the shift of Wannier centers to topologically nontrivial positions on the edges of the unit cells, and the emergence of fractional…

Topologically gapless edge states, characterized by topological invariants and Berry's phases of bulk energy bands, provide amazing techniques to robustly control the reflectionless propagation of electrons, photons and phonons. Recently, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Haiyan Fan , Baizhan Xia , Liang Tong , Shengjie Zheng , Dejie Yu

High-order topological insulator (HOTI) occupies an important position in topological band theory due to its exotic bulk-edge correspondence. Recently, it has been predicted that external magnetic field can introduce rich physics into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Sheng Li , Xiao-Xue Yan , Jin-Hua Gao , Yong Hu

Recently extended from the modern theory of electric polarization, quantized multipole topological insulators (QMTIs) describe higher-order multipole moments, lying in nested Wilson loops, which are inherently quantized by lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Xiang Ni , Mengyao Li , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

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

Quasi-1D materials Bi$_{4}$X$_{4}$ (X=Br,I) are prototype weak topological insulators (TI) in the $\beta$ phase. For the $\alpha$ phases, recent high-throughput database screening suggests that Bi$_{4}$Br$_{4}$ is a rare higher-order TI…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Chiho Yoon , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Hongki Min , Fan Zhang

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the 2H structural phase have been recently classified as higher-order topological insulators (HOTI), protected by $C_3$ rotation symmetry. In addition, theoretical calculations show…

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are unique topological materials supporting edge states with the dimensionality at least by two lower than the dimensionality of the underlying structure. HOTIs were observed on lattices with…

Second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) are the topological phases of matter in d dimensions that manifest (d-2)-dimensional localized modes at the intersection of the edges. We show that SOTIs can be designed via stacked Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Ce Shang , Xiaoning Zang , Wenlong Gao , Udo Schwingenschlögl , Aurélien Manchon

By using an extended slave-boson method, we draw a global phase diagram summarizing both magnetic phases and paramagnetic (PM) topological insulating phases (TI$_s$) in three-dimensional topological Kondo insulator (TKI). By including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-26 Huan Li , Zhi-Yong Wang , Xiao-Jun Zheng , Yu Liu , Yin Zhong