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We study the linear response to time-dependent probes of a symmetry-protected topological phase of bosons in one-dimension, the Haldane insulator (HI). This phase is separated from the ordinary Mott insulator (MI) and density-wave (DW)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-15 Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

Topological multipole insulators are a class of higher order topological insulators (HOTI) in which robust fractional corner charges appear due to a quantized electric multipole moment of the bulk. This bulk-corner correspondence has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 S. Franca , J. van den Brink , I. C. Fulga

We consider a non-Hermitian (NH) analog of a second-order topological insulator, protected by chiral symmetry, in the presence of next-nearest neighbor hopping elements to theoretically investigate the interplay beyond the first nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Arijit Saha , Tanay Nag

In higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), topologically nontrivial phases are usually associated with the shift of Wannier centers to topologically nontrivial positions on the edges of the unit cells, and the emergence of fractional…

A higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) in two dimensions is an insulator without metallic edge states but with robust zero-dimensional topological boundary modes localized at its corners. Yet, these corner modes do not carry a clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-09 Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

High-order topological insulators (HOTIs), as generalized from topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), are characterized with lower-dimensional metallic boundary states protected by spatial symmetries of a crystal, whose theoretical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Citian Wang , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang

We study topological properties and the topological phase transitions therein for a semi-Dirac Haldane model on a honeycomb lattice in presence of an extended range (third neighbour) hopping. While in the absence of a third neighbour…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Sayan Mondal , Saurabh Basu

The higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) protected by spacial symmetry has been studied in-depth on models with square lattice. Our work, based on an alternative model on the breathing Kagome lattice, revealed that the different types…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Yichen Xu , Ruolan Xue , Shaolong Wan

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

Using density matrix renormalization group numerical calculations, we study the phase diagram of the half filled Bose-Hubbard system in the sawtooth lattice with strong frustration in the kinetic energy term. We focus in particular on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-03 Benoît Grémaud , G. George Batrouni

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

The interplay between antiferromagnetic interaction and hole motion is capable of inducing intriguing conducting topological Haldane phases described by a finite non-local string order parameter. Here we show that these states of matter are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-27 A. Montorsi , S. Fazzini , L. Barbiero

Topological materials hold great promise for developing next-generation devices with transport properties that remain resilient in the presence of local imperfections. However, their susceptibility to thermal noise has posed a major…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Jiefei Wang , Jianhao Dai , Ruosong Mao , Yunzhou Lu , Xiao Liu , Huizhu Hu , Shi-Yao Zhu , Xingqi Xu , Han Cai , Da-Wei Wang

Haldane's tight-binding model, which describes a Chern insulator in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice, exhibits quantum Hall conductivity without an external magnetic field. Here, we explore an $\alpha -T_{3}$ lattice subjected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Othmane Benhaida , El Hassan Saidi , L. B. Drissi

We investigate the two-leg Hubbard model with diagonal hopping to explore the interplay between geometrical frustration and strong electron-electron interactions. Using the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) method, we demonstrate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-04 João Pedro Gama D'Elia , Thereza Paiva

After exploring much on two-dimensional higher-order topological superconductors (HOTSCs) hosting Majorana corner modes (MCMs) only, we propose a simple fermionic model based on a three-dimensional topological insulator proximized with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

A $d$-dimensional second-order topological insulator (SOTI) can host topologically protected $(d - 2)$-dimensional gapless boundary modes. Here we show that a 2D non-Hermitian SOTI can host zero-energy modes at its corners. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tao Liu , Yu-Ran Zhang , Qing Ai , Zongping Gong , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda , Franco Nori

The topological Haldane model (THM) on a honeycomb lattice is a prototype of systems hosting topological phases of matter without external fields. It is the simplest model exhibiting the quantum Hall effect without Landau levels, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-12 Heung-Sik Kim , Hae-Young Kee

Quantum simulators are an essential tool for understanding complex quantum materials. Platforms based on ultracold atoms in optical lattices and photonic devices led the field so far, but electronic quantum simulators are proving to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 S. N. Kempkes , M. R. Slot , J. J. van den Broeke , P. Capiod , W. A. Benalcazar , D. Vanmaekelbergh , D. Bercioux , I. Swart , C. Morais Smith

Topological materials (TMs) are well-known for their topological protected properties. Phononic system has the advantage of direct observation and engineering of topological phenomena on the macroscopic scale. For the inverse design of 3D…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jiachen Luo , Zongliang Du , Hui Chen , Xianggui Ding , Chang Liu , Weisheng Zhang , Xu Guo