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The discovery of topological phases has recently led to a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics, and facilitated breakthroughs in engineered photonics and acoustic metamaterials. Topological insulators (TIs) enable the generation of…

Three dimensional (3D) third-order topological insulators (TIs) have zero-dimensional (0D) corner states, which are three dimensions lower than bulk. Here we investigate the third-order TIs on breathing pyrochlore lattices with p-orbital…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Jiyu Wang , Ying Chen , Xiancong Lu

Inspired by recent experimental observations of hybrid topological states [Hossain et al. Nature 628, 527 (2024)], we predict hybrid-order topological insulators in 1H transition metal compounds (TMCs), where both second-order and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ning-Jing Yang , Zhigao Huang , Jian-Min Zhang

We propose a framework to realize helical edge states in phononic systems using two identical lattices with interlayer couplings between them. A methodology is presented to systematically transform a quantum mechanical lattice which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Raj Kumar Pal , Marshall Schaeffer , Massimo Ruzzene

It is shown that superfluids in two and three dimensions which have time reversal invariant ground states have phases which are distinguished by a topological invariant. Further, it is shown that the B-phase of $^3$ He is a superfluid in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-20 Rahul Roy

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a generic feature of topological states of matter, reflecting the intrinsic relation between topological bulk and boundary states. For example, robust edge states propagate along the edges and corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Hong Yao

Topological photonics provides a novel platform to explore topological physics beyond traditional electronic materials and stimulates promising applications in topologically protected light transport and lasers. Classical degrees of freedom…

We propose a minimal interacting lattice model for two-dimensional class-$D$ higher-order topological superconductors with no free-fermion counterpart. A Lieb-Schultz-Mattis-type constraint is proposed and applied to guide our lattice model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-15 Hao-Ran Zhang , Jian-Hao Zhang , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Shuo Yang

We present a class of time-reversal-symmetric fractional topological liquid states in two dimensions that support fractionalized excitations. These are incompressible liquids made of electrons, for which the charge Hall conductance vanishes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-11 Titus Neupert , Luiz Santos , Shinsei Ryu , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

The discovery of higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) has established a new paradigm for understanding symmetry-constrained boundary electronic states. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we demonstrate the emergence of HOTI…

Higher-order topological insulators are established as topological crystalline insulators protected by crystalline symmetries. One celebrated example is the second-order topological insulator in three dimensions that hosts chiral hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Jiong-Hao Wang , Yan-Bin Yang , Ning Dai , Yong Xu

As the novel topological states, the higher-order topological insulators have attracted great attentions in the past years. However, their realizations in realistic materials, in particular in two dimensional systems, remains the big…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-05 Licheng Wang , Ali Hamza Qureshi , Yi Sun , Xiaokang Xu , Xiaojing Yao , Xinli Zhao , Ai-Lei He , Yuan Zhou , Xiuyun Zhang

Hyperbolic topological transitions refer to the transformation of is isofrequency contours in hyperbolic materials from one topology (e.g., hyperbolic) to another (e.g., elliptical or a different hyperbolic topology). However, current…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-14 Junke Liao , Tao Hou , Huanyang Chen

The possibility of topological phase transition with or without a magnetic flux trapped in the cells of a class of decorated lattices is explored in details.Using a tight binding Hamiltonian and a real space decimation scheme we…

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Non-Euclidean geometry, discovered by negating Euclid's parallel postulate, has been of considerable interest in mathematics and related fields for the description of geographical coordinates, Internet infrastructures, and the general…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-05 Sunkyu Yu , Xianji Piao , Namkyoo Park

Second-order topological insulator, which has (d-2)-dimensional topological hinge or corner states, has been observed in three-dimensional materials, but has yet not been observed in two-dimensional system. In this Letter, we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Zheng Liu , Yafei Ren , Yulei Han , Qian Niu , Zhenhua Qiao

We show that topological phases with fractional excitations can occur in two-dimensional ultracold dipolar gases on a particular class of optical lattices. Due to the dipolar interaction and lattice confinement, a quantum dimer model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-26 Kai Sun , Erhai Zhao , W. Vincent Liu

Photonic topological states have revolutionized our understanding on the propagation and scattering of light. Recent discovery of higher-order photonic topological insulators opens an emergent horizon for zero-dimensional topological corner…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Li Zhang , Yihao Yang , Pengfei Qin , Qiaolu Chen , Fei Gao , Erping Li , Jian-Hua Jiang , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

We describe the possibility for topologically robust edge states existing on interfaces of triangular lattices which are supported by rotational symmetries that are sensitive to boundary conditions. Such states are trivial from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Robert J. Davis , Yun Zhou , Dia'aaldin J. Bisharat , Prabhakar R. Bandaru , Daniel F. Sievenpiper

We study $s$-wave superconductivity in hyperbolic spaces using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes theory for discrete hyperbolic lattices and the Ginzburg-Landau theory for the continuous hyperbolic plane. Hyperbolic lattices maintain a finite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-12 Vladimir Bashmakov , Askar Iliasov , Tomáš Bzdušek , Andrey A. Bagrov