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The topological band theory predicts that bulk materials with nontrivial topological phases support topological edge states. This phenomenon is universal for various wave systems and has been widely observed for electromagnetic and acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Hao Hu , Song Han , Yihao Yang , Dongjue Liu , Haoran Xue , Gui-Geng Liu , Zheyu Cheng , Qi Jie Wang , Shuang Zhang , Baile Zhang , Yu Luo

Reconstructing a density of states or similar distribution from moments or continued fractions is an important problem in calculating the electronic and vibrational structure of defective or non-crystalline solids. For single bands a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Roger Haydock , C. M. M. Nex

Topologically protected gapless edge states are phases of quantum matter which behave as massless Dirac fermions, immunizing against disorders and continuous perturbations. Recently, a new class of topological insulators (TIs) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-12 Haiyan Fan , Baizhan Xia , Shengjie Zheng , Liang Tong

One-dimensional all-bands-flat lattices are networks with all bands being flat and highly degenerate. They can always be diagonalized by a finite sequence of local unitary transformations parameterized by a set of angles \(\theta_{i}\). In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-13 Sanghoon Lee , Sergej Flach , Alexei Andreanov

Higher-order topological phases feature topologically protected boundary states in lower dimensions. Specifically, the zero-dimensional corner states are protected by the $d$th-order topology of a $d$-dimension system. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Linhu Li , Muhammad Umer , Jiangbin Gong

Non-Hermitian skin-edge states emerge only at one edge in one-dimensional nonreciprocal chains, where all states are localized at the edge irrespective of eigenvalues. The bulk topological number is the winding number associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Motohiko Ezawa

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are described by symmetric exponentially decayed Wannier functions at some $necessary$ unoccupied Wyckoff positions and classified as obstructed atomic insulators (OAIs) in the topological quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-27 Da-Shuai Ma , Kejun Yu , Xiao-Ping Li , Xiaoyuan Zhou , Rui Wang

Topological band theory provides a conceptual framework to predict or even engineer robust metallic states at the boundaries of topologically distinct phases. The bulk-boundary correspondence requires that a topological electronic phase…

We show that hybrid structures of topological insulators and materials without topological protection can be employed to create perfectly conducting channels hosted in the non-topological part. These states inherit the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Sven Essert , Viktor Krueckl , Klaus Richter

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

The recent discovery of topological insulators has revived interest in the topological properties of insulating band structures. In this work, we extend the topological classification of insulating band structures to include certain point…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-15 Liang Fu

We analyze the topological and dynamical properties of a system formed by two chains of identical emitters coupled to a waveguide, whose guided modes induce all-to-all excitation hopping. We find that, in the single excitation limit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ciaran McDonnell , Beatriz Olmos

The discovery of topological phases has introduced a new dimension to materials science. Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are a remarkable class of matter that is insulating in the bulk while hosting conductive…

A model of bound state formation from the delocalized edge states of 2D topological insulator is derived by considering the effects of magnetic barriers attached to the edge of the HgTe/CdTe quantum well. The resulting structure has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-08 D. V. Khomitsky , A. A. Konakov , E. A. Lavrukhina

Recently there is trend to study topological properties in one-dimensional(1D) periodic systems. Concepts such as Zak phase are considered as topological invariants that characterize the bulk bands. The bulk 1D systems are classified to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-14 Yi-Dong Wu

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

Systems that can be described with the same mathematical models that account for the properties of electrons in graphene are known as graphene-like systems. These include magnons, photons, polaritons, acoustic waves, and electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 J. L. Lado , J. Fernández-Rossier

Topological lasers are a new class of lasers that seek to exploit the special properties of topological states of light. A typical limiting factor in their performance is the existence of non-topological states with quality factors…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-25 B. F. Zhu , Q. Wang , Y. Q. Zeng , Q. J. Wang , Y. D. Chong

Topological insulators (TIs) are renowned for their remarkable electronic properties: quantised bulk Hall and edge conductivities, and robust edge wave-packet propagation, even in the presence of material defects and disorder. Computations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Matthew J. Colbrook , Andrew Horning , Kyle Thicke , Alexander B. Watson

HgTe is a versatile topological material and has enabled the realization of a variety of topological states, including two- and three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators and topological semimetals. Nevertheless, a quantitative…