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We provide the first unbiased evidence for a higher-order topological Mott insulator in three dimensions by numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations. This insulating phase is adiabatically connected to a third-order topological…

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Three-dimensional topological (crystalline) insulators are materials with an insulating bulk, but conducting surface states which are topologically protected by time-reversal (or spatial) symmetries. Here, we extend the notion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Frank Schindler , Ashley M. Cook , Maia G. Vergniory , Zhijun Wang , Stuart S. P. Parkin , B. Andrei Bernevig , Titus Neupert

The higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) protected by spacial symmetry has been studied in-depth on models with square lattice. Our work, based on an alternative model on the breathing Kagome lattice, revealed that the different types…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Yichen Xu , Ruolan Xue , Shaolong Wan

Recently discovered photonic higher-order topological insulators enable unprecedented flexibility in the robust localization of light in structures of different dimensionality. While the potential of the two-dimensional systems is currently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Valerii I. Kachin , Maxim A. Gorlach

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

In recent years, the role of crystal symmetries in enriching the variety of TIs have been actively investigated. Higher-order TIs are a new type of topological crystalline insulators that exhibit gapless boundary states whose dimensionality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-20 Akishi Matsugatani , Haruki Watanabe

We propose a realization of a two-dimensional higher-order topological insulator with ultracold atoms loaded into orbital angular momentum (OAM) states of an optical lattice. The symmetries of the OAM states induce relative phases in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-11 G. Pelegrí , A. M. Marques , V. Ahufinger , J. Mompart , R. G. Dias

Exploring novel topological matters with exotic quantum states has always been a core issue in the field of condensed matter physics, which can update the understanding of topological phases and broaden the classification of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Wei Jia , Yuping Tian , Huanhuan Yang , Xiangru Kong , Zhi-Hao Huang , Wei-Jiang Gong , Jun-Hong An

We report appearance of non-trivial zero energy corner modes in the form of topological defects (trimers) in a carefully designed 2D crystalline topological insulator. The proposed scenario is developed via an unconventional stacking of 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Manideep Gone , Srijata Lahiri , Nabyendu Das

Higher order topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators in dimensions $\rm d>1$. These higher-order topological insulators possess $\rm (d - 1)$-dimensional boundaries that, unlike those of conventional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

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

The search for exotic new topological states of matter in widely accessible materials, for which the manufacturing process is mastered, is one of the major challenges of the current topological physics. Here we predict higher order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Sergey S. Krishtopenko

Haldane model is a celebrated tight binding toy model in a 2D honeycomb lattice that exhibits quantized Hall conductance in the absence of an external magnetic field. In our work, we deform the bands of the Haldane model smoothly by varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Srijata Lahiri , Saurabh Basu

Topological phases, including the conventional first-order and higher-order topological insulators and semimetals, have emerged as a thriving topic in the fields of condensed-matter physics and material science. Usually, a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yating Yang , Jiuyang Lu , Mou Yan , Xueqin Huang , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

A second-order topological insulator in $d$ dimensions is an insulator which has no $d-1$ dimensional topological boundary states but has $d-2$ dimensional topological boundary states. It is an extended notion of the conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Motohiko Ezawa

A $d$-dimensional second-order topological insulator (SOTI) can host topologically protected $(d - 2)$-dimensional gapless boundary modes. Here we show that a 2D non-Hermitian SOTI can host zero-energy modes at its corners. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tao Liu , Yu-Ran Zhang , Qing Ai , Zongping Gong , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda , Franco Nori

The Berry phase associated with energy bands in crystals can lead to quantized quantities, such as the quantization of electric dipole polarization in an insulator, known as a one-dimensional (1D) topological insulator (TI) phase. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Haoran Xue , Yong Ge , Hong-Xiang Sun , Qiang Wang , Ding Jia , Yi-Jun Guan , Shou-Qi Yuan , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

Electric circuits are known to realize topological quadrupole insulators. We explore electric circuits made of capacitors and inductors forming the breathing Kagome and pyrochlore lattices. They are known to possess three phases (trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Motohiko Ezawa

Recently, the higher-order topological phases from the chiral AIII symmetry classes are characterized by a Z topological invariant known as the multipole chiral numbers, which indicate the number of degenerate zero-energy corner states at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Yuzeng Li , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

In this work we develop a theoretical framework for the control of corner modes in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) featuring long-range hoppings and diverse geometries, enabling precise tunability of their spatial positions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Fang Qin , Rui Chen