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Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

Higher-order topological insulators are established as topological crystalline insulators protected by crystalline symmetries. One celebrated example is the second-order topological insulator in three dimensions that hosts chiral hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Jiong-Hao Wang , Yan-Bin Yang , Ning Dai , Yong Xu

We introduce new classes of gapped topological phases characterized by quantized crystalline-electromagnetic responses, termed "multipolar Chern insulators". These systems are characterized by nonsymmorphic momentum-space symmetries and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sachin Vaidya , André Grossi Fonseca , Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Taylor L. Hughes , Marin Soljačić

While topological phases have been extensively studied in amorphous systems in recent years, it remains unclear whether the random nature of amorphous materials can give rise to higher-order topological phases that have no crystalline…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-15 Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

Conventional topological insulators support boundary states that have one dimension lower than the bulk system that hosts them, and these states are topologically protected due to quantized bulk dipole moments. Recently, higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Avik Dutt , Momchil Minkov , Shanhui Fan

Symmetries play a crucial role in the classification of topological phases of matter. Although recent studies have established a powerful framework to search for and classify topological phases based on symmetry indicators, there exists a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 W. -D. Zhao , Y. -B. Yang , Y. Jiang , Z. -C. Mao , W. -X. Guo , L. -Y. Qiu , G. -X. Wang , L. Yao , L. He , Z. -C. Zhou , Y. Xu , L. -M. Duan

High-order topological insulators (TIs) are a family of recently-predicted topological phases of matter obeying an extended topological bulk-boundary correspondence principle. For example, a two-dimensional (2D) second-order TI does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Haoran Xue , Yahui Yang , Fei Gao , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

Topological insulators are states of matter distinguished by the presence of symmetry protected metallic boundary states. These edge modes have been characterised in terms of transport and spectroscopic measurements, but a thermodynamic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Anton Quelle , Emilio Cobanera , Cristiane Morais Smith

The quadrupole topological insulator (QTI) has attracted intense studies as a prototype of symmetry-protected higher-order topological phases of matter with a quantized quadrupole moment. The realization of QTIs has been reported in various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Zhen Ning , Bo Fu , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Topological invariants are a significant ingredient in the study of topological phases of matter that intertwines the supposedly contradicting concepts of bulk and boundary. The nature of the invariants differ depending on the dimension of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Srijata Lahiri , Saurabh Basu

Quadrupole insulators are a class of second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) that host zero-dimensional corner states within a two-dimensional bulk. Despite their unique properties, their realization in electronic systems on realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Haiyue Huang , Prineha Narang , Ioannis Petrides

Quadrupole topological insulator is a symmetry-protected higher-order topological phase with intriguing topology of Wannier bands, which, however, has not yet been realized in plasmonic metamaterials. Here, we propose a lattice of…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ying Chen , Zhi-Kang Lin , Huanyang Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

The topological insulator is an electronic phase stabilized by spin-orbit coupling that supports propagating edge states and is not adiabatically connected to the ordinary insulator. In several ways it is a spin-orbit-induced analogue in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Andrew M. Essin , J. E. Moore

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

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

Higher-order topological insulators have been introduced in the precursory Benalcazar-Bernevig-Hughes quadrupole model, but no electronic compound has been proposed to be a quadrupole topological insulator (QTI) yet. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 Zhaopeng Guo , Junze Deng , Yue Xie , Zhijun Wang

The recently discovered three dimensional or bulk topological insulators are expected to exhibit exotic quantum phenomena. It is believed that a trivial insulator can be twisted into a topological state by modulating the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 Su-Yang Xu , Y. Xia , L. A. Wray , D. Qian , Shuang Jia , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , J. Osterwalder , B. Slomski , H. Lin , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

Second-order topological insulators can be characterized by their bulk polarization, which is believed to be intrinsically connected to the center of the Wannier function. In this study, we demonstrate the existence of second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Zhenzhen Liu , Xiaoxi Zhou , Guochao Wei , Lei Gao , Bo hou , Jun-Jun Xiao

A topological insulator is characterized by spin-momentum locking on its boundary. The spin momentum locking on the surface of a three dimensional topological insulator leads to the existence of a non-trivial Berry's phase which leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Su-Yang Xu , L. A. Wray , Y. Xia , R. Shankar , S. Jia , A. Fedorov , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , B. Slomski , J. Osterwalder , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

The Euler number is a new topological number recently debuted in the topological physics. Unlike the Chern number defined for a band, it is defined for interbands. We propose a simple model realizing the topological Euler insulator for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Motohiko Ezawa