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Higher-order topological phases have raised widespread interest in recent years with the occurrence of the topological boundary states of dimension two or more less than that of the system bulk. The higher-order topological states have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Zhenhang Pu , Hailong He , Licheng Luo , Qiyun Ma , Liping Ye , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

We theoretically investigate a two-dimensional decorated honeycomb lattice framework to realize a second-order topological magnon insulator (SOTMI) phase featuring distinct corner-localized modes. Our study emphasizes the pivotal role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Sayak Bhowmik , Saikat Banerjee , Arijit Saha

Dirac semimetals (DSMs) are an important class of topological states of matter. Here, focusing on DSMs of band inversion type, we investigate their boundary modes from the effective model perspective. We show that in order to properly…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Xu-Tao Zeng , Ziyu Chen , Cong Chen , Bin-Bin Liu , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang

Dirac semimetals (DSMs), which host Dirac fermions and represent new state of quantum matter, have been studied intensively in condensed matter physics. The exploration of new materials with topological states is im- portant in both physics…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-28 Yi-Yan Wang , Sheng Xu , Lin-Lin Sun , Tian-Long Xia

Using density functional theory calculations including an on-site Coulomb term, we explore electronic and possibly topologically nontrivial phases in $3d$ transition metal oxide honeycomb layers confined in the corundum structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 Okan Köksal , Santu Baidya , Rossitza Pentcheva

The class of topological semimetals comprises a large pool of compounds. Together they provide a wide platform to realize exotic quasiparticles for example Dirac, nodal line Dirac and Weyl fermions. In this letter, we report the Berry…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Nitesh Kumar , Kaustuv Manna , Yanpeng Qi , Shu-Chun Wu , Lei Wang , Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser , Chandra Shekhar

Recently, higher-order topological phases have endowed materials many exotic topological phases. For three-dimensional (3D) higher-order topologies, it hosts topologically protected 1D hinge states or 0D corner states, which extend the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Xiao Xiang , Xiang Ni , Feng Gao , Xiaoxiao Wu , Zhaoxian Chen , Yu-Gui Peng , Xue-Feng Zhu

Three-dimensional higher-order topological semimetals in crystalline systems exhibit higher-order Fermi arcs on one-dimensional hinges, challenging the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. However, the existence of higher-order Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Floquet engineering, the concept of tailoring a system by a periodic drive, is increasingly exploited to design and manipulate topological phases of matter. In this work, we study periodically driven higher-order topological Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Zi-Ming Wang , Rui Wang , Jin-Hua Sun , Ting-Yong Chen , Dong-Hui Xu

We identify three-dimensional higher-order superconductors characterized by the coexistence of one-dimensional Majorana hinge states and gapless surface sates. We show how such superconductors can be obtained starting from the model of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Xiang Hu , Taylor L. Hughes , Enrico Rossi

Preceded by the discovery of topological insulators, Dirac and Weyl semimetals have become a pivotal direction of research in contemporary condensed matter physics. While easily accessible from a theoretical viewpoint, these topological…

Nodal-line semimetals with magnetic orders have been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in only few compounds. We theoretically explore the electronic structure in bulk and boundary of such a magnetic nodal-line state by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Yasufumi Araki , Jin Watanabe , Kentaro Nomura

We start by describing a symmetry enforced nodal line semi-metal (NLSM) in the 2D flat form of honeycomb Group - V and its non trivial thermo-electric response. We will then proceed to show that, upon buckling, the system undergoes its…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-15 Santosh Kumar Radha

We theoretically demonstrate hybrid-order topology in a two-dimensional nonsymmorphic antiferromagnet. Utilizing a generic antiferromagnetic Dirac model with a symmetry-allowed, momentum-dependent spin-density-wave (SDW) mass, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Wei Xiong , Zi-Ming Wang , Xin-Mei Wei , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

Recently, topological semimetals become hot topic in condensed matter physics, including Dirac semimetal, Weyl semimetal, and nodal line semimetal (NLSM). In this paper, a new type of node- line semimetal - type-II NLSM is proposed based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-26 Jing He , Xiao Kong , Wei Wang , Su-Peng Kou

$\alpha$-Sn is an elemental topological material, whose topological phases can be tuned by strain and magnetic field. Such tunability offers a substantial potential for topological electronics. However, InSb substrates, commonly used to…

A Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a topological material that hosts Weyl fermions as quasiparticles in the bulk. We study the combined effect of intra- and interorbital disorders on WSMs by adopting a tight-binding model that supports the WSM,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Rui Chen , Chui-Zhen Chen , Jin-Hua Sun , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Higher-order topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems has recently become one of the most promising and rapidly developing fields in condensed matter physics. Many distinct phases that were not present in the Hermitian equivalents are shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Subhajyoti Bid , Gaurab Kumar Dash , Manisha Thakurathi

We discuss how strongly interacting higher-order symmetry protected topological (HOSPT) phases can be characterized from the entanglement perspective: First, we introduce a topological many-body invariant which reveals the non-commutative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Yizhi You , Julian Bibo , Frank Pollmann

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