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Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) possess localized and symmetry-protected eigenmodes at corners and along hinges in two and three dimensional lattices. The numbers of these topological boundary modes will undergo quantized changes at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Longwen Zhou , Rongtao Wang , Jiaxin Pan

We consider a polariton condensate in a microcavity driven by a bichromatic resonant pump formed by two vortical laser beams carrying different topological charges. The system is additionally confined in a ring-shaped potential. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

The Hopf insulator is a weak topological insulator characterized by an insulating bulk with conducting edge states protected by an integer-valued linking number invariant. The state exists in three-dimensional two-band models. We…

We unravel a fundamental connection between supersymmetry and a wide class of two dimensional second-order topological insulators (SOTI). This particular supersymmetry is induced by applying a half-integer Aharonov-Bohm flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Clara S. Weber , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Zhe Hou , Dante M. Kennes , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss , Herbert Schoeller

We study the topological structure of matter-light excitations, so called polaritons, in a quantum spin Hall insulator coupled to photonic cavity modes. We identify a topological invariant in the presence of time reversal (TR) symmetry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Alexander Janot , Bernd Rosenow , Gil Refael

A major challenge in polariton fluids is achieving deterministic control over the spin texture of the macroscopic condensate wavefunction, which dictates the nucleation and dynamics of topological excitations, such as vortices, solitons,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Andrea Zacheo , Marco Marangi , Nilo Mata-Cervera , Yijie Shen , Giorgio Adamo , Cesare Soci

Topological insulators represent unique phases of matter with insulating bulk and conducting edge or surface states, immune to small perturbations such as backscattering due to disorder. This stems from their peculiar band structure, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Jérôme Cayssol , Balázs Dóra , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

Hopf insulators represent an exceptional class of topological matter unanticipated by the periodic table of topological invariants. These systems point to the existence of previously unexplored states of matter with unconventional topology.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-19 Konstantinos Ladovrechis , Shouvik Sur

Higher-order topology is prized for its ability to realize lower-dimensional boundary states which are stable beyond fine-tuning. However, disorder presents a failure mechanism that can destroy topological in-gap states. Here, we…

Topological insulators are characterized by the presence of gapless surface modes protected by time-reversal symmetry. In three space dimensions the magnetoelectric response is described in terms of a bulk theta term for the electromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Brian Swingle , Maissam Barkeshli , John McGreevy , T. Senthil

We propose and model Floquet topological polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, using the interference of frequency detuned coherent fields to provide a time periodic potential. For arbitrarily weak field strength, where the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Rongchun Ge , Wijnand Broer , Timothy C. H. Liew

A wide variety of higher-order symmetry protected topological phase(HOSPT) with gapless corners or hinges had been proposed as a descendant of topological crystalline insulator protected by spatial symmetry. In this work, we address a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Yizhi You

Results are presented for the optical Hall conductivity of a Floquet topological insulator (FTI) for an ideal closed quantum system, as well as an open system in a nonequilibrium steady-state with a reservoir. The steady-state, even for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Hossein Dehghani , Aditi Mitra

Recently, correlated physics such as superconductivity and insulator at commensurate fractional electron fillings has been discovered in several different systems with Moire superlattice and narrow electron bands near charge neutrality.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-12 Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

Higher-order topological insulators have attracted significant interest in both static single-particle and many-body lattice systems. While periodically driven (Floquet) higher-order topological phases have been explored at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Chun-Ping Su , Zhao-Fan Cai , Tao Liu

Fractal geometries, characterized by self-similar patterns and non-integer dimensions, provide an intriguing platform for exploring topological phases of matter. In this work, we introduce a theoretical framework that leverages isospectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 L. Eek , Z. F. Osseweijer , C. Morais Smith

Our understanding of topological insulators is based on an underlying crystalline lattice where the local electronic degrees of freedom at different sites hybridize with each other in ways that produce nontrivial band topology, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

Fractional topological insulators (FTI) are electronic topological phases in $(3+1)$ dimensions enriched by time reversal (TR) and charge $U(1)$ conservation symmetries. We focus on the simplest series of fermionic FTI, whose bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-25 Sharmistha Sahoo , Alexander Sirota , Gil Young Cho , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

Topological polaritons characterized by light-matter interactions have become a pivotal platform in exploring new topological phases of matter. Recent theoretical advances unveiled a novel mechanism for tuning topological phases of…

Recently, a new class of second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) characterized by an electronic dipole has been theoretically introduced and proposed to host topological corner states. As a novel topological state, it has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Jiang Zeng , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie