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Topological properties of quantum materials are intimately related to symmetry. Here, we tune the magnetic order of the axion insulator candidate EuIn$_2$As$_2$ from its broken-helix ground state to the field-polarized phase by applying an…

One-dimensional (1D) gapless hinge states are predicated in the three-dimensional (3D) higher-order topological insulators and topological semimetals, because of the higher-order bulk-boundary correspondence. Nevertheless, the topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 An-Qi Wang , Peng-Zhan Xiang , Tong-Yang Zhao , Zhi-Min Liao

Disorder and non-Hermiticity dramatically impact the topological and localization properties of a quantum system, giving rise to intriguing quantum states of matter. The rich interplay of disorder, non-Hermiticity, and topology is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Kunkun Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Quasicrystals show long-range order, but lack translational symmetry. So far, theoretical and experimental studies suggest that both Hermitian and non-Hermitian quasicrystals show localized eigenstates. This localization is due to the…

In the last few years, several works have identified the concurrence of the spectral, delocalization-localization and topological phase transitions in non-Hermitian quasiperiodic systems in the presence of time-reversal symmetry (TRS), with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-21 Aditi Chakrabarty , Sanchayan Banerjee , Tapan Mishra , Sanjoy Datta

We study the possibility of transferring fermions from a trivial system as particle source to an empty system but at topological phase as a mold for casting a stable topological insulator dynamically. We show that this can be realized by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 X. M. Yang , Z. Song

Examples of non-hermitian quantum systems admitting topological insulator phase are presented in one, two and three space dimensions. All of these non-hermitian Hamiltonians have entirely real bulk eigenvalues and unitarity is maintained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-19 Pijush K. Ghosh

Discovery of novel topological orders of condensed matters is of a significant interest in both fundamental and applied physics due to the associated quantum conductance behaviors and unique symmetry-protected backscattering-immune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Cheng He , Xu Ni , Hao Ge , Xiao-Chen Sun , Yan-Bin Chen , Ming-Hui Lu , Xiao-Ping Liu , Liang Feng , Yan-Feng Chen

Recently, the topological classification of electronic states has been extended to a new class of matter known as topological crystalline insulators. Similar to topological insulators, topological crystalline insulators also have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-04 Duming Zhang , Hongwoo Baek , Jeonghoon Ha , Tong Zhang , Jonathan E. Wyrick , Albert V. Davydov , Young Kuk , Joseph A. Stroscio

We investigate localization-delocalization transition in one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasiperiodic lattices with exponential short-range hopping, which possess parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. The localization transition induced by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-27 Yanxia Liu , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Junpeng Cao , Shu Chen

Non-Hermitian topology provides a research frontier for exploring topological phenomena, revealing novel topological effects and driving the development of emergent materials and platforms. Here, we explore the non-Hermitian Chern insulator…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-13 Yi-Ling Zhang , Li-Wei Wang , Yang Liu , Zhao-Xian Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

Time-periodic perturbations can be used to engineer topological properties of matter by altering the Floquet band structure. This is demonstrated for a spin Hall insulator in the presence of monochromatic circularly polarized light. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Balázs Dóra , Jérôme Cayssol , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

To explore the non-Euclidean generalization of higher-order topological phenomena, we construct a higher-order topological insulator model in hyperbolic lattices by breaking the time-reversal symmetry (TRS) of quantum spin Hall insulators.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Zheng-Rong Liu , Chun-Bo Hua , Tan Peng , Rui Chen , Bin Zhou

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but feature conducting states on their surfaces. Standard methods for probing their topological properties largely involve probing the surface, even though topological invariants are defined…

Clarifying similarities and differences in physical properties between crystalline and quasicrystalline systems is one of central issues in studying quasicrystals. To contribute to this, we apply multifractal and hyperuniform analyses to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-28 Masahiro Hori , Takanori Sugimoto , Yoichiro Hashizume , Takami Tohyama

Magnetically doped topological insulators (TIs) exhibit two distinct phases: the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase when the Fermi level resides within the surface gap, and a metallic phase outside the gap. The QAH phase hosts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Le Yi , Emma Steinebronn , Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Nitin Samarth , Ramy El-Ganainy , Sahin L. Ozdemir , Morteza Kayyalha

Topological insulators are characterized by a nontrivial band topology driven by the spin-orbit coupling. To fully explore the fundamental science and application of topological insulators, material realization is indispensable. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-30 Di Xiao , Wenguang Zhu , Ying Ran , Naoto Nagaosa , Satoshi Okamoto

Hopf insulators represent a unique class of topological insulators that exist exclusively in two-band systems and are inherently unstable upon the inclusion of additional bands. Meanwhile, recent studies have shown that non-Hermiticity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Daichi Nakamura , Kohei Kawabata

The higher-order corner modes for quantum anomalous Hall insulators in $C_3$ symmetry broken honeycomb lattice have been engineered recently. Here we consider an extended Haldane model in presence of inversion symmetry breaking sub-lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Sudarshan Saha , Tanay Nag , Saptarshi Mandal

The topological states of matter and topological materials have been attracting extensive interests as one of the frontier topics in condensed matter physics and materials science since the discovery of quantum Hall effect in 1980s. So far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 Bo Fu , Jin-Yu Zou , Zi-Ang Hu , Huan-Wen Wang , Shun-Qing Shen