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Recently, there is an interest in studying the bulk-edge correspondence for nonlinear eigenvalues problems in a two-dimensional topological system with spin-orbit coupling. By introducing auxiliary eigenvalues, the nonlinear bulk-edge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-27 Shujie Cheng , Yonghua Jiang , Gao Xianlong

More physics at the boundaries of a topological lattice remains to be explored for future applications of topological edge states. This work investigates the stability of topological edge states in the presence of a moving impurity. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Baikang Yuan , Jiangbin Gong

In this work, we study the disorder effects on the bulk-boundary correspondence of two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). We concentrate on two cases: (i) bulk-corner correspondence, (ii) edge-corner correspondence.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-13 Yu-Song Hu , Yue-Ran Ding , Jie Zhang , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Chui-Zhen Chen

We investigate the scattering and localization properties of edge and bulk states in a disordered two-dimensional topological insulator when they coexist at the same fermi energy. Due to edge-bulk backscattering (which is not prohibited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Yan-Yang Zhang , Man Shen , Xing-Tao An , Qing-Feng Sun , Xin-Cheng Xie , Kai Chang , Shu-Shen Li

We study bulk/edge aspects of continuous honeycomb lattices in a magnetic field. We compute the bulk index of Bloch eigenbundles: it equals $2$ or $-2$, with sign depending on nearby Dirac points and on the magnetic field. We then prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Alexis Drouot

We explore the bulk-edge correspondence for topological insulators (superconductors) without time-reversal symmetry from the point of view of the index theorem for open spaces. We assume generic Hamiltonians not only with a linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Fukui , K. Shiozaki , T. Fujiwara , S. Fujimoto

This paper concerns the asymmetric transport observed along interfaces separating two-dimensional bulk topological insulators modeled by (continuous) differential Hamiltonians and how such asymmetry persists after numerical discretization.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Solomon Quinn , Guillaume Bal

The bulk-boundary correspondence, a topic of intensive research interest over the past decades, is one of the quintessential ideas in the physics of topological quantum matter. Nevertheless, it has not been proven in all generality and has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-23 Jun-Won Rhim , Jens H. Bardarson , Robert-Jan Slager

Here, building on our previous work [Phys. Rev. B, 92, 125153, (2015)], it is shown that the propagation of unidirectional gapless edge states at an interface of two topologically distinct electromagnetic continua with a well-behaved…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-03 Mario G. Silveirinha

We study edge states of a random Schroedinger operator for an electron submitted to a magnetic field in a finite macroscopic two dimensional system of linear dimensions equal to L. The y direction is L-periodic and in the x direction the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Christian Ferrari , Nicolas Macris

The existence of topologically protected edge modes is often cited as a highly desirable trait of topological insulators. However, these edge states are not always present. A realistic physical treatment of long range hopping in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Simon R. Pocock , Paloma A. Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

We consider one dimensional tight binding models on $\ell^2(\mathbb Z)$ whose spatial structure is encoded by a Sturmian sequence $(\xi_n)_n\in \{a,b\}^\mathbb Z$. An example is the Kohmoto Hamiltonian, which is given by the discrete…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Johannes Kellendonk , Emil Prodan

We prove the bulk-edge correspondence in $K$-theory for the quantum Hall effect by constructing an unbounded Kasparov module from a short exact sequence that links the bulk and boundary algebras. This approach allows us to represent bulk…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Chris Bourne , Alan L. Carey , Adam Rennie

We present examples in three symmetry classes of topological insulators in one or two dimensions where the proof of the bulk-edge correspondence is particularly simple. This serves to illustrate the mechanism behind the bulk-edge principle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Jacob Shapiro

We study one-dimensional insulators obeying a chiral symmetry in the single-particle picture. The Fermi level is assumed to lie in a mobility gap. Topological indices are defined for infinite (bulk) or half-infinite (edge) systems, and it…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Gian Michele Graf , Jacob Shapiro

The bulk-edge correspondence for topological quantum liquids states that the spectrum of the reduced density matrix of a large subregion reproduces the thermal spectrum of a physical edge. This correspondence suggests an intricate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-03 Brian Swingle , T. Senthil

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

Bulk-edge correspondence, with quantized bulk topology leading to protected edge states, is a hallmark of topological states of matter and has been experimentally observed in electronic, atomic, photonic, and many other systems. While…

This paper concerns the topological classification of continuous Hamiltonians that find applications in biased cold plasmas and photonics. Besides a magnetic bias, the Hamiltonians are parametrized by a plasma frequency and a fixed vertical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Matthew Frazier , Guillaume Bal

We investigate the role of self-adjoint extensions in the bulk-edge correspondence for topological insulators. While the correspondence is well understood in discrete models with spectral gaps, complications arise in the presence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Johannes Kellendonk , Tom Stoiber