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We introduce novel higher-order topological phases of matter in chiral-symmetric systems (class AIII of the tenfold classification), most of which would be misidentified as trivial by current theories. These phases are protected by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-07 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Alexander Cerjan

The puckered lattice geometry, along with $p$-orbitals is often overlooked in the study of topological physics. Here, we investigate the higher-order topology of the $p_{x,y}$-orbital bands in acoustic metamaterials using a simplified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Bing-Quan Wu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Li-Wei Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

We demonstrate that a plethora of higher order topological phases emerge in magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems through the interplay of a stacked magnetic structure and an underlying triangular surface lattice; the latter being of…

Topological insulators [1-6] is a new quantum phase of matter with exotic properties such as dissipationless transport and protection against Anderson localization [7]. These new states of quantum matter could be one of the missing links…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-29 M. Klintenberg

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

The concept of free fermion topology has been generalized to $d$-dimensional phases that exhibit $(d-n)$-dimensional boundary modes, such as zero-dimensional (0D) corner excitations. Motivated by recent extensions of these ideas to magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-22 Arijit Haldar , Geremia Massarelli , Arun Paramekanti

Higher order topological insulators (HOTIs) are a new class of topological materials which host protected states at the corners or hinges of a crystal. HOTIs provide an intriguing alternative platform for helical and chiral edge states and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-27 Leena Aggarwal , Penghao Zhu , Taylor L. Hughes , Vidya Madhavan

High-order topological phases host robust boundary states at the boundary of the boundary, which can be interpreted from their boundary topology. In this work, considering the interplay between superconductors and magnetic fields to gap the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-29 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Xin Liu

Topological invariants are conventionally known to be responsible for protection of extended states against disorder. A prominent example is the presence of topologically protected extended-states in two-dimensional (2D) quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Bohm-Jung Yang , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Naoto Nagaosa

Higher-order topological insulators, which support lower-dimensional topological boundary states than the first-order topological insulators, have been intensely investigated in the integer dimensional systems. Here, we provide a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Junkai Li , Qingyang Mo , Jian-Hua Jiang , Zhaoju Yang

Recent proposals for the realization of time-reversal symmetry breaking and topological superconductivity in twisted nodal superconductors have led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of these systems, marking one of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-20 J. H. Pixley , Pavel A. Volkov

We consider a 2D electron system on a square lattice with hopping beyond nearest neighbors. The existence of the quantum critical point associated with an electronic topological transition in the noninteracting system results in density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 F. Bouis , M. N. Kiselev , F. Onufrieva , P. Pfeuty

Quantum engineering of topological superconductors and of the ensuing Majorana zero modes might hold the key for realizing a new paradigm for the implementation of topological quantum computing and topology-based devices.…

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

A hyperbolic lattice allows for any $p$-fold rotational symmetry, in stark contrast to a two-dimensional crystalline material, where only twofold, threefold, fourfold or sixfold rotational symmetry is permitted. This unique feature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 Yu-Liang Tao , Yong Xu

A higher-order topological insulator is a new concept of topological states of matter, which is characterized by the emergent boundary states whose dimensionality is lower by more than two compared with that of the bulk, and draws a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-11 Hiromu Araki , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Mixed-state phases have recently attracted significant attention as a generalization beyond their pure-state counterparts. Prominent examples include mixed-state symmetry-protected topological (mSPT) phases and the strong-to-weak symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-05 Aswin Parayil Mana , Zijian Song , Fei Yan , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Complex phase diagrams are generic feature of quantum materials that display high temperature superconductivity. In addition to d-wave superconductivity (or other unconventional states), these phase diagrams typically include various forms…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Eduardo Fradkin

The introduction of topological invariants, ranging from insulators to metals, has provided new insights into the traditional classification of electronic states in condensed matter physics. A sudden change in the topological invariant at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Cheng Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen , Yong P. Chen , Faxian Xiu

Topological phases of matter is an exotic phenomena in modern condense matter physics, which has attracted much attention due to the unique boundary states and transport properties. Recently, this topological concept in electronic materials…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Zheng-Yuan Xue , Yong Hu