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In two dimensions, magnetic higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are characterized by excess boundary charge and a compensating bulk ``filling anomaly.'' At the same time, without additional noncrystalline symmetries, the boundaries…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Pranav Rao , Barry Bradlyn

Topological insulators are studied via tight-binding approximations of longitudinally driven photonic lattices with three lattice sites per unit cell. Two cases are considered in detail: Lieb and Kagome lattices. The lattice is decomposed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-03-27 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole

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…

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

Recently, real topological phases protected by $PT$ symmetry have been actively investigated. In two dimensions, the corresponding topological invariant is the Stiefel-Whitney number. A recent theoretical advance is that in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Qing Liu , Kai Wang , Jia-Xiao Dai , Y. X. Zhao

Using a systematic relation between topological gapless phases in three dimensions and topological gapped phases in two dimensions, we identify four types of higher-order topological semimetals or nodal superconductors (HOTS), hosting (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Sophia Simon , Max Geier , Piet W. Brouwer

Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) possess localized and symmetry-protected eigenmodes at corners and along hinges in two and three dimensional lattices. The numbers of these topological boundary modes will undergo quantized changes at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Longwen Zhou , Rongtao Wang , Jiaxin Pan

We demonstrate that a spin degree of freedom can introduce additional texture to higher order topological insulators (HOTIs), manifesting itself in novel topological invariants, phases, and phase transitions. Spin-polarized mid-gap corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Ran Gladstein Gladstone , Minwoo Jung , Gennady Shvets

A Kagome lattice, formed by triangles of two different directions, is known to have many emergent quantum phenomena. Under the breathing anisotropy of bond strengths, this lattice can become a higher-order topological insulator (HOTI),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Jun Jung , Yong-Hyun Kim

Inspired by recent experimental observations of hybrid topological states [Hossain et al. Nature 628, 527 (2024)], we predict hybrid-order topological insulators in 1H transition metal compounds (TMCs), where both second-order and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ning-Jing Yang , Zhigao Huang , Jian-Min Zhang

A universal feature of topological insulators is that they cannot be adiabatically connected to an atomic limit, where individual lattice sites are completely decoupled. This property is intimately related to a topological obstruction to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Masaya Nakagawa , Robert-Jan Slager , Sho Higashikawa , Takashi Oka

The recent discovery of higher-order topological insulators (TIs) has opened new possibilities in the search for novel topological materials and metamaterials. Second-order TIs have been implemented in two-dimensional (2D) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Haoran Xue , Yahui Yang , Guigeng Liu , Fei Gao , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

After extensive investigation on the Floquet second-order topological insulator (FSOTI) in two dimension (2D), here we propose two driving schemes to systematically engineer the hierarchy of Floquet first-order topological insulator, FSOTI,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

The quadrupole topological insulator (QTI) has attracted intense studies as a prototype of symmetry-protected higher-order topological phases of matter with a quantized quadrupole moment. The realization of QTIs has been reported in various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Zhen Ning , Bo Fu , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Recently, Valenti et al. pointed out the significance of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in organic materials, and explained the anomalous insulating behavior of a Dirac semimetal alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 at low temperatures in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Toshihito Osada

Higher-order topological insulators, which support lower-dimensional topological boundary states than the first-order topological insulators, have been intensely investigated in the integer dimensional systems. Here, we provide a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Junkai Li , Qingyang Mo , Jian-Hua Jiang , Zhaoju Yang

Recently extended from the modern theory of electric polarization, quantized multipole topological insulators (QMTIs) describe higher-order multipole moments, lying in nested Wilson loops, which are inherently quantized by lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Xiang Ni , Mengyao Li , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

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 Hopf insulator is a weak topological insulator characterized by an insulating bulk with conducting edge states protected by an integer-valued linking number invariant. The state exists in three-dimensional two-band models. We…

We unravel a fundamental connection between supersymmetry and a wide class of two dimensional second-order topological insulators (SOTI). This particular supersymmetry is induced by applying a half-integer Aharonov-Bohm flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Clara S. Weber , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Zhe Hou , Dante M. Kennes , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss , Herbert Schoeller