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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…

I consider higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) created in chi(2) nonlinear medium and based on two-dimensional generalization of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger waveguide array, where transition between trivial and topological phases is…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-03 Yaroslav V. Kartashov

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 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 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

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

We present a recipe for an electronic 2D higher order topological insulator (HOTI) on the triangular lattice that can be realized in a large family of materials. The essential ingredient is mirror symmetry breaking, which allows for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Philipp Eck , Yuan Fang , Domenico Di Sante , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Jennifer Cano

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 identify the possibility of realizing higher order topological (HOT) phases in noncrystalline or amorphous materials. Starting from two and three dimensional crystalline HOT insulators, accommodating topological corner states, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Adhip Agarwala , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

In this work we develop a theoretical framework for the control of corner modes in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) featuring long-range hoppings and diverse geometries, enabling precise tunability of their spatial positions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

The recent discovery of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) has significantly extended our understanding of topological phases of matter. Here, we predict that second-order corner states can emerge in the dipolar-coupled dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Z. -X. Li , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) feature protected gapless modes on boundaries of higher codimension, such as the corners or hinges of a crystal. They are understood as being protected by lattice symmetries: If the latter are broken,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Shahroze Shahab , Hui Liu , Daniel Varjas , Ion Cosma Fulga

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

Current understanding of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) is based primarily on crystalline materials. Here, we propose that HOTIs can be realized in quasicrystals. Specifically, we show that two distinct types of second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Rui Chen , Chui-Zhen Chen , Jin-Hua Gao , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

The integration of intrinsically magnetic and topologically nontrivial two-dimensional materials holds tantalizing prospects for the exotic quantum anomalous Hall insulators and magnetic second-order topological insulators (SOTIs). Compared…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhao Liu , Bing Liu , Yuefeng Yin , Nikhil V. Medhekar

High-order topological insulators (HOTIs), as generalized from topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), are characterized with lower-dimensional metallic boundary states protected by spatial symmetries of a crystal, whose theoretical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Citian Wang , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang

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

Topological lasers are a new class of lasers that seek to exploit the special properties of topological states of light. A typical limiting factor in their performance is the existence of non-topological states with quality factors…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-25 B. F. Zhu , Q. Wang , Y. Q. Zeng , Q. J. Wang , Y. D. Chong

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are recently discovered topological phases, possessing symmetry-protected corner states with fractional charges. An unexpected connection between these states and the seemingly unrelated…

Ferroelectric higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) exhibit tunable physical properties arising from the interplay between ferroelectric polarization and band topology. This work investigates the topological origin of two classes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 YingJie Hu , Heng Gao , Yabei Wu , Wei Ren