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This paper concerns the topological classification of continuous Hamiltonians that find applications in biased cold plasmas and photonics. Besides a magnetic bias, the Hamiltonians are parametrized by a plasma frequency and a fixed vertical…

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A higher-order topological superconductor can experience topological phase transitions driven by variations in a bulk parameter without closing the bulk gap. This presents a challenge in establishing a direct bulk-boundary correspondence,…

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Hermitian topological materials are characterized by the nontrivial relation between topological numbers and edge modes, i.e. the bulk-boundary correspondence. In non-Hermitian systems, the conventional correspondence breaks down. Instead,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-22 Shohei Masuda , Masaaki Nakamura

The bulk-boundary correspondence, which relates topological properties of a material in the bulk to the presence of robust modes localized on the edge, is at the core of the now mature field of topological wave physics. More recently, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Renaud Cote , Marc Pachebat , Antonin Coutant

Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) are a standout nanophotonic platform for strong light-matter coupling with transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), but have so far mostly been employed as all-dielectric metasurfaces with…

We study the correspondence between boundary spectrum of non-chiral topological orders on an open manifold $\mathcal{M}$ with gapped boundaries and the entanglement spectrum in the bulk of gapped topological orders on a closed manifold. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Zhu-Xi Luo , Brendan G. Pankovich , Yuting Hu , Yong-Shi Wu

We study the interplay between two nontrivial boundary effects: (1) the two dimensional ($2d$) edge states of three dimensional ($3d$) strongly interacting bosonic symmetry protected topological states, and (2) the boundary fluctuations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Yichen Xu , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

Topological photonics sheds light on some of the surprising phenomena seen in condensed matter physics that arise with the appearance of topological invariants. Optical waveguides provide a well-controlled platform to investigate effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Adrian J Menssen , Jun Guan , David Felce , Martin J Booth , Ian A Walmsley

The bulk-edge correspondence for topological quantum liquids states that the spectrum of the reduced density matrix of a large subregion reproduces the thermal spectrum of a physical edge. This correspondence suggests an intricate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-03 Brian Swingle , T. Senthil

Topological insulators feature a number of topologically protected boundary modes linked to the value of their bulk invariant. While in one-dimensional systems the boundary modes are zero dimensional and localized, in two-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Carlos Vega , Diego Porras , Alejandro González-Tudela

Topology plays an increasing role in physics beyond the realm of topological insulators in condensed mater. From geophysical fluids to active matter, acoustics or photonics, a growing family of systems presents topologically protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Clément Tauber , Pierre Delplace , Antoine Venaille

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

Nonlinear transport has emerged as a powerful approach to probe the quantum geometry of electronic wavefunctions, such as Berry curvature and quantum metric, in topological materials. While nonlinear responses governed by bulk quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Deyi Zhuo , Xiaoda Liu , Huu-Thong Le , Annie G. Wang , Han Tay , Bomin Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Binghai Yan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

The bulk-edge correspondence (BEC) refers to a one-to-one relation between the bulk and edge properties ubiquitous in topologically nontrivial systems. Depending on the setup, BEC manifests in different forms and govern the spectral and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yukinori Yoshimura , Takahiro Fukui , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Asymmetric coupling amplitudes effectively create an imaginary gauge field, which induces a non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect. Nonzero imaginary magnetic flux invalidates the bulk-boundary correspondence and leads to a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 L. Jin , Z. Song

The bulk-boundary correspondence relates topologically-protected edge modes to bulk topological invariants, and is well-understood for short-range free-fermion chains. Although case studies have considered long-range Hamiltonians whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Nick G. Jones , Ryan Thorngren , Ruben Verresen

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a key concept in topological quantum materials. For instance, a quantum spin Hall insulator features a bulk insulating gap with gapless helical boundary states protected by the underlying Z2 topology.…

The bulk-edge correspondence principle, a cornerstone of topological physics, ensures that first-order topological systems host robust chiral edge states in two dimension. This was later extended to higher-order phases, where second-order…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Xianbin Wu , Tiantao Qu , Xiaoxuan Shi , Lei Zhang , Jun Chen

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

The anomalous bulk-boundary correspondence in non-Hermitian systems featuring an intricate interplay between skin and boundary modes has attracted enormous theoretical and experimental attention. Still, in dimensions higher than one, this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Fan Yang , Emil J. Bergholtz