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The effect of quantizing magnetic field on the electron transport is investigated in a two dimensional topological insulator (2D TI) based on a 8 nm (013) HgTe quantum well (QW). The local resistance behavior is indicative of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 E. B. Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , G. M. Gusev , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

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

A three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is a quantum state of matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet a conducting surface hosting topologically-protected gapless surface states. One of the most distinct electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Chang Liu , Jifa Tian , Hyoungdo Nam , Nasser Alidoust , Jiuning Hu , Chih-Kang Shih , M. Zahid Hasan , Yong P. Chen

In this paper, we review the basic concepts of topologically protected edge modes using the Su Schrieffer Heeger (SSH) model, originally introduced to describe electrical conductivity in doped polyacetylene polymer chains. We then propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 L. Q. English , A. Halchenko , F. Palmero

In this work, we study the disorder effects on the bulk-boundary correspondence of two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). We concentrate on two cases: (i) bulk-corner correspondence, (ii) edge-corner correspondence.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-13 Yu-Song Hu , Yue-Ran Ding , Jie Zhang , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Chui-Zhen Chen

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is central to band topology in condensed matter physics, which allows us to understand and design distinct topological states. In this work, we find another mechanism to analogize the SSH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Yuanjun Jin , XingYu Yue , Yong Xu , Xiang-Long Yu , Guoqing Chang

Recently, a new class of second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) characterized by an electronic dipole has been theoretically introduced and proposed to host topological corner states. As a novel topological state, it has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Jiang Zeng , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Search for higher-order topological insulators, characterized by topologically protected gapless boundary states of codimension higher than one, in bosonic systems has attracted growing interest. Here, we establish twisted bilayer honeycomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-16 Chun-Bo Hua , Feiping Xiao , Zheng-Rong Liu , Jin-Hua Sun , Jin-Hua Gao , Chui-Zhen Chen , Qingjun Tong , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

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

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are recently discovered topological phases, possessing symmetry-protected corner states with fractional charges. An unexpected connection between these states and the seemingly unrelated…

In this paper, we studied a generalized Bose-Hubbard model on a checkerboard lattice with topologically nontrivial flat-band. We used mean-field method to decouple the model Hamiltonian and obtained phase diagram by Landau theory of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 Xing-Hai Zhang , Su-Peng Kou

High-order topological insulators (TIs) develop the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence theory and rise the interest in searching innovative topological materials. To realize a high-order TI with a wide passband of 1D and 2D…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Fei Meng , Yafeng Chen , Weibai Li , Baohua Jia , Xiaodong Huang

The interacting SSH model provides an ideal ground to study the interplay between topologically insulating phases and electron-electron interactions. We study the polarization density as a topological invariant and provide an analytic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-19 E. Di Salvo , A. Moustaj , C. Xu , L. Fritz , A. K. Mitchell , C. Morais Smith , D. Schuricht

We consider a two-dimensional generalization of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model which is known to possess a non-trivial topological band structure. For this model, which is characterized by a single parameter, the hopping ratio $0 \leq r\leq…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-29 Ying Wang , Gautam Rai , Stephan Haas , Anuradha Jagannathan

We extensively study the localization and the quantum Hall effect in the Hofstadter butterfly, which emerges in a two-dimensional electron system with a weak two-dimensional periodic potential. We numerically calculate the Hall conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

If a full band gap closes and then reopens when we continuously deform a periodic system while keeping its symmetry, a topological phase transition usually occurs. A common model demonstrating such a topological phase transition in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Xin Li , Yan Meng , Xiaoxiao Wu , Sheng Yan , Yingzhou Huang , Shuxia Wang , Weijia Wen

We study the entanglement spectrum (ES) of two-dimensional $C_{n}$-symmetric second-order topological insulators (TIs). We show that some characteristic higher order topological observables, e.g., the filling anomaly and its associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 Penghao Zhu , Kieran Loehr , Taylor L. Hughes

Motivated by the experimental realization of synthetic spin-orbit coupling for ultracold atoms, we investigate the phase diagram of the Bose Hubbard model in a non-abelian gauge field in two dimensions. Using a strong coupling expansion in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-09 William S. Cole , Shizhong Zhang , Arun Paramekanti , Nandini Trivedi

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model serves as a canonical example of a one-dimensional topological insulator, yet its behavior under more complex, realistic conditions remains a fertile ground for research. This paper presents a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Souvik Ghosh , Sayak Roy

We investigate the Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice with intrinsic spin orbit interactions as a paradigm for two-dimensional topological band insulators in the presence of interactions. Applying a combination of Hartree-Fock theory,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Stephan Rachel , Karyn Le Hur