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In topological physics, one of the most intriguing phenomena is the presence of topological boundary states, accurately predicted by the well-established bulk-edge correspondence. For example, in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, Fermi…

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The bulk-boundary correspondence plays a crucial role in topological quantum systems, however,this principle is broken in non-Hermitian systems. The breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence indicates that the global phase diagrams…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Xue-Ping Ren , Yue Hu , Long-Ye Lu , Xin-Ran Ma , Ji-Yao Fan , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou

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

Topological phononic insulators are the counterpart of three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators in phononic systems and, as such, their topological surfaces are characterized by Dirac cone-shaped gapless edge states arising as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Daniele Di Miceli , Chandan Setty , Alessio Zaccone

Nearly a decade after the discovery of topological insulators (TIs), the important task of identifying and characterizing their topological surface states through electrical transport experiments remains incomplete. The interpretation of…

The discovery and realization of topological insulators, a phase of matter which hosts metallic boundary states when the $d$-dimension insulating bulk is confined to ($d-1$)-dimensions, led to several potential applications. Recently, it…

Bulk-boundary correspondence is the emergence of features at the boundary of a material that are dependent on and yet distinct from the properties of the bulk of the material. The diverse applications of this idea in topological insulators…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-04 Mehmet Ramazanoglu , Şener Özönder , Rumeysa Salcı

The breakdown of conventional bulk-boundary correspondence, a cornerstone of topological physics, is one of counter-intuitive phenomena in non-Hermitian systems, that is deeply rooted in symmetry. In particular, preserved chiral symmetry is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Miao Zhang , Yue Zhang , Shuai Li , Rui Tian , Tianhao Wu , Yingchao Xu , Yi-an Li , Yuanbang Wei , Hong Gao , M. Suhail Zubairy , Fuli Li , Bo Liu

The bulk-boundary correspondence is an integral feature of topological analysis and the existence of boundary or interface modes offers direct insight into the topological structure of the Bloch wave function. While only the topology of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-28 Chang-geun Oh , Doohee Cho , Se Young Park , Jun-Won Rhim

Bismuth antimony alloys (Bi$_x$Sb$_{1-x}$) provide a tuneable materials platform to study topological transport and spin-polarized surface states resulting from the nontrivial bulk electronic structure. In the two-dimensional limit, it is a…

The rising of quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHI) in two-dimensional (2D) systems has been attracting significant interest in current research, for which the 1D helical edge states, a hallmark of QSHI, are widely expected to be a promising…

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

A scenario of non-Hermitian bulk--boundary correspondence proposed for one-dimensional topological insulators is adapted to a non-Hermitian Chern insulator to examine its applicability to two-dimensional systems. This scenario employs bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Yositake Takane

In this work, we study the disorder effects on the bulk-boundary correspondence of two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). We concentrate on two cases: (i) bulk-corner correspondence, (ii) edge-corner correspondence.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-13 Yu-Song Hu , Yue-Ran Ding , Jie Zhang , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Chui-Zhen Chen

The two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTI) host a full gap in the bulk band, induced by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect, together with the topologically protected gapless edge states. However, the SOC-induced gap is usually small,…

Bulk-edge correspondence, with quantized bulk topology leading to protected edge states, is a hallmark of topological states of matter and has been experimentally observed in electronic, atomic, photonic, and many other systems. While…

Quantized bulk quadrupole moment has unveiled a nontrivial boundary state, exhibiting lower-dimensional topological edge states and simultaneously hosting the in-gap corner modes of zero dimension. All state-of-the-art strategies for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-22 Guoqiang Xu , Xue Zhou , Jing Wu , Cheng-Wei Qiu

The bulk-edge correspondence is a condensed matter theorem that relates the conductance of a Hall insulator in a half-plane to that of its (straight) boundary. In this work, we extend this result to domains with curved boundaries. Under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Alexis Drouot , Xiaowen Zhu

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), also known as two-dimensional topological insulators, have emerged as an unconventional class of quantum states with insulating bulk and conducting edges originating from nontrivial inverted band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Takafumi Akiho , François Couëdo , Hiroshi Irie , Kyoichi Suzuki , Koji Onomitsu , Koji Muraki

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but feature conducting states on their surfaces. Standard methods for probing their topological properties largely involve probing the surface, even though topological invariants are defined…