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High-order topological phases host robust boundary states at the boundary of the boundary, which can be interpreted from their boundary topology. In this work, considering the interplay between superconductors and magnetic fields to gap the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-29 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Xin Liu

The quantum Hall effect, fundamental in modern condensed matter physics, continuously inspires new theories and predicts emergent phases of matter. Here we experimentally demonstrate three types of Chern insulators with synthetic dimensions…

Topological insulators are substances which are bulk insulators but which carry current via special "topologically protected" edge states. The understanding of long range topological order in these systems is built around the idea of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-16 H. B. Thacker

Topological band theory establishes a standardized framework for classifying different types of topological matters. Recent investigations have shown that hyperbolic lattices in non-Euclidean space can also be characterized by hyperbolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Weixuan Zhang , Fengxiao Di , Xingen Zheng , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Topological insulators feature a number of topologically protected boundary modes linked to the value of their bulk invariant. While in one-dimensional systems the boundary modes are zero dimensional and localized, in two-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Carlos Vega , Diego Porras , Alejandro González-Tudela

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter with metallic edge/surface states. In this paper, we pointed out that there exists a new type of particle-hole symmetry-protected topological insulator - topological hierarchy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-23 Jing He , Chun-Li Zang , Ying Liang , Su-Peng Kou

Topological Chern indices are related to the number of rotational states in each molecular vibrational band. Modification of the indices is associated to the appearance of ``band degeneracies'', and exchange of rotational states between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederic Faure , Boris Zhilinskii

We analyse the topological transition and localization evolution of disordered two dimensional systems with non trivial topology based on bipartite lattices. Chern insulators with broken time reversal symmetry show non standard behavior for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Eduardo V. Castro , M. Pilar López-Sancho , María A. H. Vozmediano

Topological insulators [1-6] is a new quantum phase of matter with exotic properties such as dissipationless transport and protection against Anderson localization [7]. These new states of quantum matter could be one of the missing links…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-29 M. Klintenberg

We investigate the properties of a two-dimensional quasicrystal in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. In this configuration, the density of states (DOS) displays a Hofstadter butterfly-like structure when it is represented as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Duc-Thanh Tran , Alexandre Dauphin , Nathan Goldman , Pierre Gaspard

The interplay among topology, disorder, and non-Hermiticity can induce some exotic topological and localization phenomena. Here we investigate this interplay in a two-dimensional non-Hermitian disordered Chern-insulator model with two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Ling-Zhi Tang , Ling-Feng Zhang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

The disorder effects on higher-order topological phases in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems, such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between disorder and higher-order topology is still…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Zheng-Rong Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

We extend the theory of dipole moments in crystalline insulators to higher multipole moments. In this paper, we expand in great detail the theory presented in Ref. 1, and extend it to cover associated topological pumping phenomena, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes

Electronic topological phases of matter, characterized by robust boundary states derived from topologically nontrivial bulk states, are pivotal for next-generation electronic devices. However, understanding their complex quantum phases,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Xiang Li , Yixiao Chen , Bohao Li , Haoxiang Chen , Fengcheng Wu , Ji Chen , Weiluo Ren

Local topological markers are used to characterize Chern insulators in the presence of spatial inhomogeneities, such as boundaries and disorder. In this paper, we study the local Chern marker in systems with partial translational symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Maks Repše , Tomaž Rejec , Jernej Mravlje

The discovery of topological states of matter has profoundly augmented our understanding of phase transitions in physical systems. Instead of local order parameters, topological phases are described by global topological invariants and are…

Commonly, a two-dimensional topological insulator is characterized by non-zero Chern numbers associated with its band structure. In our work, we present the experimental demonstration of an anomalous topological insulator, for which the…

The Chern-Hopf insulator is an unconventional three-dimensional topological insulator with a bulk gap and gapless boundary states without protection from global discrete symmetries. This study investigates its fate in the presence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-13 Soumya Bera , Ivan Dutta , Roderich Moessner , Kush Saha

Topological edge states in Chern insulators are typically characterized by a linear dispersion relation inherited from the Dirac structure of the bulk Hamiltonian. Here we show that this paradigm can be fundamentally altered in systems with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Marta García Olmos , David Martín Tejedor , Mario Amado , Yuriko Baba , Rafael A. Molina

We survey various quantized bulk physical observables in two- and three-dimensional topological band insulators invariant under translational symmetry and crystallographic point group symmetries (PGS). In two-dimensional insulators, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-15 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig