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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

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

Topological materials are typically characterized by gapless boundary states originated from nontrivial bulk band topology, known as topological bulk-boundary correspondence. Recently, this fundamental concept has been generalized in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 D. M. Zhao , Y. Zhong , T. Yuan , H. T. Wang , T. X. Jiang , Y. Qi , H. J. Xiang , X. G. Gong , D. L. Feng , T. 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

The discovery of higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) has established a new paradigm for understanding symmetry-constrained boundary electronic states. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we demonstrate the emergence of HOTI…

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

The emergent higher-order topological insulators significantly deepen our understanding of topological physics. Recently, the study has been extended to topological semimetals featuring gapless bulk band nodes. To date, higherorder nodal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-30 Huahui Qiu , Yuzeng Li , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

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

Higher-order topological insulators have triggered great interests because of exhibitions of non-trivial bulk topology on lower-dimensional boundaries like corners and hinges. While such interesting phases have been investigated in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ya-Jie Wu , Wen He , Ning Li , Zhitong Li , Junpeng Hou

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 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

Topological insulators~(TIs) are a new class of materials that resemble ordinary band insulators in terms of a bulk band gap but exhibit protected metallic states on their boundaries. In this modern direction, higher-order TIs~(HOTIs) are a…

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

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 demonstrate that multiple higher-order topological transitions can be triggered via the continuous change of the geometry in kagome photonic crystals composed of three dielectric rods. By tuning a single geometry parameter, the photonic…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-01 Hai-Xiao Wang , Li Liang , Bin Jiang , Junhui Hu , Xiancong Lu , Jian-Hua Jiang

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

We show that higher-order topological insulators can be created from usual square structure by twisting waveguides in each unit cell around the axis passing through the center of the unit cell, even without changing intracell distance…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-28 Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of a modified spinless Haldane-Hubbard model with broken threefold rotational symmetry, employing exact diagonalization calculations. The interplay of asymmetry, interactions, and topology gives…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-03 Tian-Cheng Yi , Hai-Qing Lin , Rubem Mondaini

The interplay between crystalline symmetry and band topology gives rise to unprecedented lower-dimensional boundary states in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). However, the measurement of the topological invariants of HOTIs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Ling Lin , Chaohong Lee

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