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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

Topological states nurtures the emergence of devices with unprecedented functions in photonics, plasmonics, acoustics and phononics. As one of the recently discovered members, higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-17 Biye Xie , Hai-Xiao Wang , Xiujuan Zhang , Peng Zhan , Jian-Hua Jiang , Minghui Lu , Yanfeng Chen

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…

We show that scattering from the boundary of static, higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) can be used to simulate the behavior of (time-periodic) Floquet topological insulators. We consider D-dimensional HOTIs with gapless corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Selma Franca , Fabian Hassler , Ion Cosma Fulga

The discovery of topological phases has recently led to a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics, and facilitated breakthroughs in engineered photonics and acoustic metamaterials. Topological insulators (TIs) enable the generation of…

Exploring novel topological matters with exotic quantum states has always been a core issue in the field of condensed matter physics, which can update the understanding of topological phases and broaden the classification of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Wei Jia , Yuping Tian , Huanhuan Yang , Xiangru Kong , Zhi-Hao Huang , Wei-Jiang Gong , Jun-Hong An

We propose second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) whose lattice structure has the hexagonal symmetry $C_{6}$ in three and two dimensions. We start with a three-dimensional weak topological insulator constructed on the stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Motohiko Ezawa

Higher order topological insulators (HOTIs) are a new class of topological materials which host protected states at the corners or hinges of a crystal. HOTIs provide an intriguing alternative platform for helical and chiral edge states and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-27 Leena Aggarwal , Penghao Zhu , Taylor L. Hughes , Vidya Madhavan

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

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

Periodically-driven or Floquet systems can realize anomalous topological phenomena that do not exist in any equilibrium states of matter, whose classification and characterization require new theoretical ideas that are beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Rui-Xing Zhang , Zhi-Cheng Yang

Higher-order topological insulators have attracted significant interest in both static single-particle and many-body lattice systems. While periodically driven (Floquet) higher-order topological phases have been explored at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Chun-Ping Su , Zhao-Fan Cai , Tao Liu

We investigate a higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) under strong nonlinearity, focusing on the existence and stability of high-amplitude corner states, which can find applications in optics, acoustics, elastodynamics, and other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 K Prabith , Georgios Theocharis , Rajesh Chaunsali

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~(HOT) states,~hosting topologically protected modes on lower-dimensional boundaries,~such as hinges and corners, have recently extended the realm of the static topological phases.~Here we demonstrate the possibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Tanay Nag , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

The orbital degrees of freedom play a pivotal role in understanding fundamental phenomena in solid-state materials as well as exotic quantum states of matter including orbital superfluidity and topological semimetals. Despite tremendous…

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.…

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

Moir\'e superlattices provide a compelling platform for exploring exotic correlated physics. Electronic interference within these systems often results in flat bands with localized electrons, which are typically described by effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Xianliang Zhou , Yifan Gao , Laiyuan Su , Z. F. Wang , Li Huang , Angel Rubio , Zhiwen Shi , Lede Xian

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