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Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are systems with topologically protected in-gap boundary states localized at their $(d-n)$-dimensional boundaries, with $d$ the system dimension and $n$ the order of the topology. This work…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Linhu Li , Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

We propose a new correlated topological state which we call a higher-order topological Mott insulator (HOTMI). This state exhibits a striking bulk-boundary correspondence due to electron correlations. Namely, the topological properties in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Koji Kudo , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Synchronized rotation of unit cells in a periodic structure provides a novel design perspective for manipulation of band topology. We then design a two-dimensional version of higher-order topological insulators (HOTI), by such rotation in a…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-05 R. Zhou , H. Lin , Y. Wu , Z. Li , Z. Yu , Y. Liu , Dong-Hui Xu

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

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 unusual materials that can support topologically protected states, whose dimensionality is lower than the dimensionality of the structure at least by 2. Among the most intriguing examples of such…

Momentum-space nonsymmorphic symmetries, stemming from the projective algebra of synthetic gauge fields, can modify the manifold of the Brillouin zone and lead to a variety of topological phenomena. We present an acoustic realization of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Jinbing Hu , Kai Zhou , Tianle Song , Xuntao Jiang , Songlin Zhuang , Yi Yang

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

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

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are a novel type of topological phases which supports $d$-dimensional topological boundary states in $D$-dimensional systems with $D-d>1$. In this work, we theoretically predict that interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Jiang Yao , Linhu Li

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

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) across various disciplines within the field of physics. These unique phases are characterized by their ability to harbor topological protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Chunbo Hua , Dong-Hui Xu

Over the past decades, high-harmonic spectroscopy (HHS) has emerged as a powerful tool for all-optical probing of topological properties of solids. There are outstanding questions regarding universal nature of the spectral features of…

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

The discovery of photonic higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) has significantly expanded our understanding of band topology and provided unprecedented lower-dimensional topological boundary states for robust photonic devices.…

Topological photonic systems represent a new class of optical materials supporting boundary modes with unique properties, not found in conventional photonics. While the early research on topological photonics has focused on edge and surface…

Higher-order topological insulators are a recently discovered class of materials that can possess zero-dimensional localized states regardless of the dimension of the lattice. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that the topological…

Floquet higher order topological insulators (FHOTIs) are a novel topological phase that can occur in periodically driven lattices. An appropriate experimental platform to realize FHOTIs has not yet been identified. We introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Weiwei Zhu , Y. D. Chong , Jiangbin Gong

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

Higher-order topological insulator, as a newly found non-trivial material and structure, possesses a topological phase beyond the bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we present an experimental observation of photonic higher-order…