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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

We study three dimensional systems where strong repulsion leads to an insulating state via spontaneously generated spin-orbit interactions. We discuss a microscopic model where the resulting state is topological. Such topological `Mott'…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 Yi Zhang , Ying Ran , Ashvin Vishwanath

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

Topologically gapless edge states, characterized by topological invariants and Berry's phases of bulk energy bands, provide amazing techniques to robustly control the reflectionless propagation of electrons, photons and phonons. Recently, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Haiyan Fan , Baizhan Xia , Liang Tong , Shengjie Zheng , Dejie Yu

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

Recently, high-order topological insulators (HOTIs), accompanied by topologically nontrivial boundary states with codimension larger than one, have been extensively explored because of unconventional bulk-boundary correspondences. As a…

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

Notion of square-root topological insulators have been recently generalized to higher-order topological insulators. In two-dimensional square-root higher-order topological insulators, emergence of in-gap corner states are inherited from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Daiki Matsumoto , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

In this work, we present a collection of three-dimensional higher-order symmetry protected topological phases (HOSPTs) with gapless hinge modes that exist only in strongly interacting systems subject to subsystem symmetry constraints. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-29 Julian May-Mann , Yizhi You , Taylor L. Hughes , Zhen Bi

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

High-order topological insulator (HOTI) occupies an important position in topological band theory due to its exotic bulk-edge correspondence. Recently, it has been predicted that external magnetic field can introduce rich physics into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Sheng Li , Xiao-Xue Yan , Jin-Hua Gao , Yong Hu

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are described by symmetric exponentially decayed Wannier functions at some $necessary$ unoccupied Wyckoff positions and classified as obstructed atomic insulators (OAIs) in the topological quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-27 Da-Shuai Ma , Kejun Yu , Xiao-Ping Li , Xiaoyuan Zhou , Rui Wang

The classification of topological insulators predicts the existence of high-dimensional topological phases that cannot occur in real materials, as these are limited to three or fewer spatial dimensions. We use electric circuits to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 You Wang , Hannah M. Price , Baile Zhang , Y. D. Chong

High-order topological insulators (TIs) are a family of recently-predicted topological phases of matter obeying an extended topological bulk-boundary correspondence principle. For example, a two-dimensional (2D) second-order TI does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Haoran Xue , Yahui Yang , Fei Gao , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

Topological band insulators which are dynamically generated by electron-electron interactions have been the- oretically proposed in two and three dimensional lattice models. We present evidence that the two-dimensional version can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-15 Andreas Rüegg , Gregory A. Fiete

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

We propose two mechanisms to realize the second order topological insulator (SOTI) state in spinless hexagonal lattices, viz., chemical modification and anti-Kekul\'e/Kekul\'e distortion of hexagonal lattice. Correspondingly, we construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Shifeng Qian , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Yugui Yao

It has been reported that upon doping a Mott insulator, there can be a crossover to a pseudogaped metallic phase followed by a first-order transition to another thermodynamically stable metallic phase. We call this first-order metal-metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-16 P. -O. Downey , O. Gingras , C. -D. Hébert , M. Charlebois , A. -M. S. Tremblay

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

We develop a lattice model which exhibits topological transitions from $Z_2$ topological insulators to mirror symmetry-protected topological crystalline insulators by introducing additional spin-orbit coupling terms. The topological phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-29 Jing-Xin Liu , Jian-Te Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu
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