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Topological crystalline insulators are topological insulators whose surface states are protected by the crystalline symmetry, instead of the time reversal symmetry. Similar to the first generation of three-dimensional topological insulators…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Jie Shen , Judy J. Cha

Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum materials in which time-reversal symmetry, relativistic (spin-orbit) effects and an inverted band structure result in electronic metallic states on the surfaces of bulk crystals. These…

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) states are bulk gapped states with gapless edge excitations protected by certain symmetries. The SPT phases in free fermion systems, like topological insulators, can be classified by the K-theory.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-08 Xie Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Zheng-Xin Liu , Xiao-Gang Wen

The theory of topological insulators and superconductors has mostly focused on non-interacting and gapped systems. This review article discusses topological phases that are either gapless or interacting. We discuss recent progress in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-04 Ari M. Turner , Ashvin Vishwanath

Symmetry-protected topological phases host gapless modes at their boundary with a featureless environment of the same dimension or a trivial vacuum. In this study, we explore their behavior in a higher-dimensional environment, which itself…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Subrata Pachhal , Adhip Agarwala

Topological insulators in three dimensions are nonmagnetic insulators that possess metallic surface states as a consequence of the nontrivial topology of electronic wavefunctions in the bulk of the material. They are the first known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-26 M. Zahid Hasan , Joel E. Moore

A second-order topological insulator on a two-dimensional square lattice hosts zero-dimensional states inside a band gap. They are localized near $90^{\circ}$ and $270^{\circ}$ corners constituting an edge of the system. When the edge is in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Yuki Nagasato , Yositake Takane , Yukinori Yoshimura , Shin Hayashi , Takeshi Nakanishi

To explore the non-Euclidean generalization of higher-order topological phenomena, we construct a higher-order topological insulator model in hyperbolic lattices by breaking the time-reversal symmetry (TRS) of quantum spin Hall insulators.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Zheng-Rong Liu , Chun-Bo Hua , Tan Peng , Rui Chen , Bin Zhou

Photonic topological states have revolutionized our understanding on the propagation and scattering of light. Recent discovery of higher-order photonic topological insulators opens an emergent horizon for zero-dimensional topological corner…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Li Zhang , Yihao Yang , Pengfei Qin , Qiaolu Chen , Fei Gao , Erping Li , Jian-Hua Jiang , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

Spectral measurements of boundary localized in-gap modes are commonly used to identify topological insulators via the bulk-boundary correspondence. This can be extended to high-order topological insulators for which the most striking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Christopher W. Peterson , Tianhe Li , Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Taylor L. Hughes , Gaurav Bahl

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

In this work, we study the generalization of decohered average symmetry-protected topological phases to open quantum systems with a combination of subsystem symmetries and global symmetries. In particular, we provide examples of two types…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-25 Jian-Hao Zhang , Ke Ding , Shuo Yang , Zhen Bi

The exploration of topological phases remains a cutting-edge research frontier, driven by their promising potential for next-generation electronic and quantum technologies. In this work, we employ first-principles calculations and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Sibin Lü , Jun Hu

Periodically driven systems can host so called anomalous topological phases, in which protected boundary states coexist with topologically trivial Floquet bulk bands. We introduce an anomalous version of reflection symmetry protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Konstantinos Ladovrechis , Ion Cosma Fulga

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) possess electronic states protected by crystal symmetries, rather than time-reversal symmetry. We show that the transition metal oxides with heavy transition metals are able to support nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Mehdi Kargarian , Gregory A. Fiete

Topological photonics revolutionizes some of the traditional approaches to light propagation and manipulation, and it provides unprecedented means for developing novel photonic devices. Recently discovered higher-order topological phases go…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Yafeng Chen , Fei Meng , Yuri Kivshar , Baohua Jia , Xiaodong Huang

Topological insulators are a broad class of unconventional materials that are insulating in the interior but conduct along the edges. This edge transport is topologically protected and dissipationless. Until recently, all existing…

Topological phases of matter are often understood and predicted with the help of crystal symmetries, although they don't rely on them to exist. In this chapter we review how topological phases have been recently shown to emerge in amorphous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-23 Adolfo G. Grushin

Gapless surface states of time reversal invariant topological insulators are protected by the anti-unitary nature of the time reversal operation. Very recently, this idea was generalized to magnetic structures, in which time reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

High-order topological insulators are a recent development extending the topological theory of charge polarization to higher multipole moments. Since their theoretical proposal, several experimental realizations of high-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Marc Serra-Garcia , Roman Süsstrunk , Sebastian D. Huber