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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

We present a $4'/m'$-respecting crisscross AFM model in 2D and 3D, both belonging to the $Z_2$ classification and exhibiting interesting magnetic high-order topological insulating (HOTI) phases. The topologically nontrivial phase in the 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-30 Jinyu Zou , Zhuoran He , Gang Xu

Topologically protected corner states serve as a key indicator for two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators, yet they have not been experimentally identified in realistic materials. Here, by utilizing the effective tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Xiaolin Wan , Junjie Zeng , Ruixiang Zhu , Dong-Hui Xu , Baobing Zheng , Rui Wang

Topological corner states are exotic topological boundary states that are bounded to zero-dimensional geometry even the dimension of systems is large than one. As an elegant physical correspondence, their numbers are dictated by the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Yi Li , Jia-Hui Zhang , Feng Mei , Biye Xie , Ming-Hui Lu , Jie Ma , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

The properties of topological systems are inherently tied to their dimensionality. Higher-dimensional physical systems exhibit topological properties not shared by their lower dimensional counterparts and, in general, offer richer physics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Kai Chen , Matthew Weiner , Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

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

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

The higher order topological insulator (HOTI) has enticed enormous research interests owing to its novelty in supporting gapless states along the hinges of the crystal. Despite several theoretical predictions, enough experimental…

Higher order topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators in dimensions $\rm d>1$. These higher-order topological insulators possess $\rm (d - 1)$-dimensional boundaries that, unlike those of conventional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

We establish an analytic low-energy theory describing higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) phases in quasicrystalline systems. We apply this to a model consisting of two stacked Haldane models with oppositely propagating edge modes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Stephen Spurrier , Nigel R. Cooper

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

In this work we develop a theoretical framework for the control of corner modes in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) featuring long-range hoppings and diverse geometries, enabling precise tunability of their spatial positions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

We demonstrate that the presence of a localized state at the corner of an insulating domain is not always a predictor of a certain non-trivial higher-order topological invariant, even though they appear to co-exist in the same Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Minwoo Jung , Yang Yu , Gennady Shvets

A higher-order topological insulator is a new concept of topological states of matter, which is characterized by the emergent boundary states whose dimensionality is lower by more than two compared with that of the bulk, and draws a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-11 Hiromu Araki , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Higher order topological insulators (HOTIs) are a novel form of insulating quantum matter, which are characterized by having gapped boundaries that are separated by gapless corner or hinge states. Recently, it has been proposed that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Julian May-Mann , Taylor L. Hughes

Recently, high-order topological insulators (HOTIs), accompanied by topologically nontrivial boundary states with codimension larger than one, have been extensively explored because of unconventional bulk-boundary correspondences. As a…

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) represent a novel class of topological materials, characterised by the emergence of topological boundary modes at dimensions two or more lower than those of bulk materials. Recent experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yong-Bin Choi , Jinho Park , Woochan Jung , Sein Park , Mazhar N. Ali , Gil-Ho Lee

We show that unconventional boundary phenomena occur in the $3Q$ charge bond orders on the hexagonal lattices. At the Van Hove singularity with three nesting momenta, $3Q$ orders can trigger a $\text{C}_6$-symmetric insulator under bond…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-25 Yu-Ping Lin

The studies of topological phases of matter have been extended from condensed matter physics to photonic systems, resulting in fascinating designs of robust photonic devices. Recently, higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Bi-Ye Xie , Guang-Xu Su , Hong-Fei Wang , Hai Su , Xiao-Peng Shen , Peng Zhan , Ming-Hui Lu , Zhen-Lin Wang , Yan-Feng Chen

We propose magnetic second-order topological insulators (SOTIs). First, we study a three-dimensional model. It is pointed out that the previously proposed topological hinge insulator has actually surface states along the [001] direction in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Motohiko Ezawa