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Electronic materials harbor a plethora of exotic quantum phases, ranging from unconventional superconductors to non-Fermi liquids, and, more recently, topological phases of matter. While these quantum phases in integer dimensions are well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Sourav Manna , Snehasish Nandy , Bitan Roy

We consider a non-Hermitian (NH) analog of a second-order topological insulator, protected by chiral symmetry, in the presence of next-nearest neighbor hopping elements to theoretically investigate the interplay beyond the first nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Arijit Saha , Tanay Nag

The key to unraveling the nature of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) lies in resolving the enigma of the pseudogap state. The pseudogap state in the underdoped region is a distinct thermodynamic phase characterized by nematicity,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-16 M. C. Diamantini , C. A. Trugenberger , V. M. Vinokur

Conventional topological insulators support boundary states that have one dimension lower than the bulk system that hosts them, and these states are topologically protected due to quantized bulk dipole moments. Recently, higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Avik Dutt , Momchil Minkov , Shanhui Fan

We investigate the topological phases that appear in an orbital version of the Benalcazar-Bernevig-Hughes (BBH) model in the presence of conventional spin-singlet $s$-wave superconductivity and with the possibility of tuning an in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-30 Rodrigo Arouca , Tanay Nag , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We propose magnetic second-order topological insulators (SOTIs). First, we study a three-dimensional model. It is pointed out that the previously proposed topological hinge insulator has actually surface states along the [001] direction in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Motohiko Ezawa

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

We demonstrate that a spin degree of freedom can introduce additional texture to higher order topological insulators (HOTIs), manifesting itself in novel topological invariants, phases, and phase transitions. Spin-polarized mid-gap corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Ran Gladstein Gladstone , Minwoo Jung , Gennady Shvets

Extensive recent research on Lieb and kagome lattices highlights their unique physics characterized by the coexistence of Dirac points, van Hove singularities, and flat bands. In these models, flat bands are typically pinned at the center…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Amrita Mukherjee , Bahadur Singh

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

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

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

We theoretically propose a second-order topological magnon insulator by stacking the van der Waals honeycomb ferromagnets with antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling. The system exhibits Z$_{2}$ topological phase, protected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 Yun-Mei Li , Ya-Jie Wu , Xi-Wang Luo , Yongwei Huang , Kai Chang

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) represent a family of topological phases that go beyond the conventional bulkboundary correspondence. d-dimensional n-th order HOTIs maintain (d - n)-dimensional gapless boundary states (in…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-12 Rujiang Li , Wencai Wang , Yongtao Jia , Ying Liu , Pengfei Li , Boris A. Malomed

The recent discoveries of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have shifted the paradigm of topological materials, which was previously limited to topological states at boundaries of materials, to those at boundaries of boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Weiwei Zhu , Haoran Xue , Jiangbin Gong , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

We present an approach to identify topological order based on unbiased infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS) simulations, i.e. where we do not impose a virtual symmetry on the tensors during the optimization of the tensor network…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-04 S. P. G. Crone , P. Corboz

Topological mosaic pattern (TMP) can be formed in two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e superlattices, a set of periodic and spatially separated domains with distinct topologies give rise to periodic edge states on the domain walls. In this study,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 Haonan Wang , Li Yang

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) represent a novel class of topological materials, characterised by the emergence of topological boundary modes at dimensions two or more lower than those of bulk materials. Recent experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yong-Bin Choi , Jinho Park , Woochan Jung , Sein Park , Mazhar N. Ali , Gil-Ho Lee

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…

The interplay between crystalline symmetry and band topology gives rise to unprecedented lower-dimensional boundary states in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). However, the measurement of the topological invariants of HOTIs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Ling Lin , Chaohong Lee