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Higher Order Topological Insulators (HOTI) are $d$-spatial dimensional systems featuring topologically protected gap-less states at their $(d-n)$-dimensional boundaries. With the help of \textit{ab-initio} calculations and tight binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Santosh Kumar Radha , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

The classification of topological insulators predicts the existence of high-dimensional topological phases that cannot occur in real materials, as these are limited to three or fewer spatial dimensions. We use electric circuits to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 You Wang , Hannah M. Price , Baile Zhang , Y. D. Chong

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

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

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) which go beyond the description of conventional bulk-boundary correspondence, broaden the understanding of topological insulating phases. Being mainly focused on electronic materials, HOTIs have…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Bi Ye Xie , Hong Fei Wang , Hai-Xiao Wang , Xue Yi Zhu , Jian-Hua Jiang , Ming Hui Lu , Yan Feng Chen

The notion of topological insulators (TIs), characterized by an insulating bulk and conducting topological surface states, can be extended to higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) hosting gapless modes localized at the boundaries of…

We propose a universal practical approach to realize magnetic second-order topological insulator (SOTI) materials, based on properly breaking the time reversal symmetry in conventional (first-order) topological insulators. The approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-05 Cong Chen , Zhida Song , Jian-Zhou Zhao , Ziyu Chen , Zhi-Ming Yu , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

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

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) or multipole insulators, hosting peculiar corner states, were discovered [arXiv:1611.07987, arXiv:1708.03636]. It was independently discovered [arXiv:1702.00624] that continuum 5-dimensional (5D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Koji Hashimoto , Yoshinori Matsuo

The emerging field of topology has brought device effects to a new level. Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) go beyond traditional descriptions of bulk-edge correspondence, broadening the understanding of topologically insulating…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-03 Hui Chang Li , Xiang Zhou , Hai Lin Chi , Wen Wen Wang , Yun Shen , Xiao Hua Deng

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

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

I consider higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) created in chi(2) nonlinear medium and based on two-dimensional generalization of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger waveguide array, where transition between trivial and topological phases is…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-03 Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Topological states nurtures the emergence of devices with unprecedented functions in photonics, plasmonics, acoustics and phononics. As one of the recently discovered members, higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-17 Biye Xie , Hai-Xiao Wang , Xiujuan Zhang , Peng Zhan , Jian-Hua Jiang , Minghui Lu , Yanfeng Chen

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have attracted much attention in photonics due to the tightly localized disorder-robust corner and hinge states. Here, we reveal an unconventional HOTI phase with vanishing dipole and quadrupole…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-25 Maxim Mazanov , Maxim A. Gorlach

Conventional topological insulators and superconductors have topologically protected nodal points on their boundaries, and the recent interests in nodal-line semimetals only concerned bulk band structures. Here, we present a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-21 L. B. Shao , Y. X. Zhao

We introduce higher order polariton topological insulator (HOTI) realized with fractal array of microcavity pillars arranged into Sierpinski gasket-like geometry. This system exhibiting self similarity in different generations, can support…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Khalil Sabour , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

The higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) is a new type of topological system which has special bulkedge correspondence compared with conventional topological insulators. In this work, we propose a scheme to realize Floquet HOTI in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-29 Ying Lei , Xi-Wang Luo , Shaoliang Zhang

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