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Various exotic topological phases of Floquet systems have been shown to arise from crystalline symmetries. Yet, a general theory for Floquet topology that is applicable to all crystalline symmetry groups is still in need. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Jiabin Yu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Zhi-Da Song

In this work, we discuss properties with no static counterpart arising in Floquet topological insulators with a dynamical chiral symmetry (DCS), i.e., a chiral symmetry which is present while driving. We explore the topological properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Mohamed Assili , Panagiotis Kotetes

Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) are characterized by symmetry-protected bound states at the corners or hinges of the system. In this work, we reveal a momentum-space counterpart of HOTPs in time-periodic driven systems, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Longwen Zhou

The unique conduction properties of condensed matter systems with topological order have recently inspired a quest for similar effects in classical wave phenomena. Acoustic topological insulators, in particular, hold the promise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Romain Fleury , Alex Khanikaev , Andrea Alu

We report the discovery of several classes of novel topological insulators (TIs) with hybrid-order boundary states generated from the first-order TIs with additional crystalline symmetries. Unlike the current studies on hybrid-order TIs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yan-Qing Zhu , Zhen Zheng , Giandomenico Palumbo , Z. D. Wang

Epsilon-near-zero and epsilon near-pole materials enable reflective systems supporting a class of symmetry-protected and accidental embedded eigenstates (EE) characterized by a diverging phase-resonance. Here we show that pairs of…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-16 Zarko Sakotic , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alú , Nikolina Jankovic

Floquet systems with periodically varying in time parameters enable realization of unconventional topological phases that do not exist in static systems with constant parameters and that are frequently accompanied by appearance of novel…

The topological insulator is a fundamentally new phase of matter, with the striking property that the conduction of electrons occurs only on its surface, not within the bulk, and that conduction is topologically protected. Topological…

The spin-dependent scattering process in a system of topological insulator and quantum dot is studied. The unitary scattering process is viewed as a gate transformation applied to an initial state of two electrons. Due to the randomness…

This paper analyzes Floquet topological insulators resulting from the time-harmonic irradiation of electromagnetic waves on two dimensional materials such as graphene. We analyze the bulk and edge topologies of approximations to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Guillaume Bal , Daniel Massatt

We study the open system dynamics and steady states of two dimensional Floquet topological insulators: systems in which a topological Floquet-Bloch spectrum is induced by an external periodic drive. We solve for the bulk and edge state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Iliya Esin , Mark S. Rudner , Gil Refael , Netanel H. Lindner

Geometrically decorated two-dimensional (2D) discrete surfaces can be more effective than conventional smooth reflectors in managing wave radiation. Constructive non-specular wave scattering permits the scattering angle to be other than…

Topological insulators with unique gapless edge states have revolutionized the understanding of electronic properties in solid materials. These gapless edge states are dictated by the topological invariants associated with the quantization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Xiujuan Zhang , Hai-Xiao Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Yuan Tian , Biye Xie , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

This letter addresses the synthesis of reflective cells approaching a given desired Floquet's scattering matrix. This work is motivated by the need to obtain much finer control of reflective metasurfaces by controlling not only their…

We study the scattering of edge states of 2D topological insulator (TI) in the uniform external magnetic field due to edge imperfections, common in realistic 2D TI samples. The external magnetic field breaks time reversal (TR) symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 A. S. Dotdaev , Ya. I. Rodionov , A. V. Rozhkov , P. D. Grigoriev

Non-Abelian topological insulators are characterized by matrix-valued, non-commuting topological charges with regard to more than one energy gap. Their descriptions go beyond the conventional topological band theory, in which an additive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

Floquet phases of matter have attracted great attention due to their dynamical and topological nature that are unique to nonequilibrium settings. In this work, we introduce a generic way of taking any integer $q$th-root of the evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Longwen Zhou , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Shenlin Wu

Topological semimetals with nodal line are a novel class of topological matter extending the concept of topological matter beyond topological insulators and Weyl/Dirac semimetals. Here, we show that a Floquet topological semimetal with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-03 Kun Woo Kim , Hyun Woong Kwon , Kwon Park

Following a general protocol of periodically driving static first-order topological phases (supporting surface states) with suitable discrete symmetry breaking Wilson-Dirac masses, here we construct a hierarchy of higher-order Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tanay Nag , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

Recently, we presented a two-dimensional (2D) model of a weak topological insulator formed by stacking an $N$ number of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains \cite{Agrawal_2022-02}. We now study the influence of periodic driving on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Aayushi Agrawal , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay