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The disorder effects on higher-order topological phases in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems, such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between disorder and higher-order topology is still…

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Featuring exotic quantum transport and surface states, topological semimetals can be classified into nodal-point, nodal-line, and nodal-surface semimetals according to the degeneracy and dimensionality of their nodes. However, a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Bing-Bing Luo , Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

The discovery of topological phases introduces new perspectives and platforms for various interesting physics originally investigated in quantum context and then, on an equal footing, in classic wave systems, such as photonics, acoustics…

The crystal symmetry of a material dictates the type of topological band structures it may host, and therefore symmetry is the guiding principle to find topological materials. Here we introduce an alternative guiding principle, which we…

We propose that three-dimensional layered octagonal quasicrystals can host magnetic-field-tunable M\"{o}bius insulators and various higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), enabled by the interplay of quasicrystalline symmetry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Yuxiao Chen , Zhiming Xu , Citian Wang , Huaqing Huang

Topological insulators and topological superconductors are distinguished by their bulk phase transitions and gapless states at a sharp boundary with the vacuum. Quasicrystals have recently been found to be topologically nontrivial. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Mor Verbin , Oded Zilberberg , Yaacov E. Kraus , Yoav Lahini , Yaron Silberberg

Dirac and Weyl semimetals both exhibit arc-like surface states. However, whereas the surface Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals are topological consequences of the Weyl points themselves, the surface Fermi arcs in Dirac semimetals are not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Benjamin J. Wieder , Zhijun Wang , Jennifer Cano , Xi Dai , Leslie M. Schoop , Barry Bradlyn , B. Andrei Bernevig

Having previously been the subject of decades of semiconductor research, cadmium arsenide has now reemerged as a topological material, realizing ideal three-dimensional Dirac points at the Fermi level. These topological Dirac points lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-03 Vsevolod Ivanov , Lotte Borkowski , Xiangang Wan , Sergey Y. Savrasov

Dirac semimetal is a class of semi-metallic phase protected by certain types of crystalline symmetries, and its low-energy effective Hamiltonian is described by Dirac equations in three dimensions (3D). Despite of various theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

When interacting spins in condensed matter order ferromagnetically, their ground state wave function is topologically trivial. Nonetheless, in two dimensions, the ferromagnetic state can support spin excitations with nontrivial topology, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Alexander Mook , Sebastián A. Díaz , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

In recent years, the interplay between non-Hermiticity and band topology is expected to uncover numerous novel physical phenomena. However, the majority of research has focused on periodic crystalline structures, with comparatively fewer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Xiaolu Zhu , Tan Peng , Fang Lyu , Wei Cao , Yue Hou , Rui Xiong , Ziyu Wang

We introduce a novel class of interaction-enabled topological crystalline insulators in two- and three-dimensional electronic systems, which we call "topological crystalline magnet." It is protected by the product of the time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Haruki Watanabe , Liang Fu

We complete a classification of topological phases and their topological defects in crystalline insulators and superconductors. We consider topological phases and defects described by non-interacting Bloch and Bogoliubov de Gennes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

The notion of topological phases has been extended to higher-order and has been generalized to different dimensions. As a paradigm, Cd3As2 is predicted to be a higher-order topological semimetal, possessing three-dimensional (3D) bulk Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-21 Cai-Zhen Li , An-Qi Wang , Chuan Li , Wen-Zhuang Zheng , Alexander Brinkman , Da-Peng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

Topological materials are typically characterized by gapless boundary states originated from nontrivial bulk band topology, known as topological bulk-boundary correspondence. Recently, this fundamental concept has been generalized in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 D. M. Zhao , Y. Zhong , T. Yuan , H. T. Wang , T. X. Jiang , Y. Qi , H. J. Xiang , X. G. Gong , D. L. Feng , T. Zhang

A lattice symmetry, if being nonsymmorphic, is defined by combining a point group symmetry with a fractional lattice translation that cannot be removed by changing the lattice origin. Nonsymmorphic symmetry has a substantial influence on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetals (TDSs) represent a novel state of quantum matter that can be viewed as '3D graphene'. In contrast to two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions in graphene or on the surface of 3D topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-05 Z. K. Liu , B. Zhou , Z. J. Wang , H. M. Weng , D. Prabhakaran , S. -K. Mo , Y. Zhang , Z. X. Shen , Z. Fang , X. Dai , Z. Hussain , Y. L. Chen

In the presence of certain symmetries, three-dimensional Dirac semimetals can harbor not only surface Fermi arcs, but also surface Dirac cones. Motivated by the experimental observation of rotation-symmetry-protected Dirac semimetal states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-17 Majid Kheirkhah , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Joseph Maciejko , Zhongbo Yan

Recently, the structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between structural disorder and band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Tan Peng , Yong-Chen Xiong , Chun-Bo Hua , Zheng-Rong Liu , Xiaolu Zhu , Wei Cao , Fang Lv , Yue Hou , Bin Zhou , Ziyu Wang , Rui Xiong

A new class of self-similar ordered structures with non-crystallographic point symmetries is presented. Each of these structures, named superquasicrystals, is given as a section of a higher-dimensional "crystal" with recursive superlattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Komajiro Niizeki , Nobuhisa Fujita