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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…

Quadrupole insulators are a class of second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) that host zero-dimensional corner states within a two-dimensional bulk. Despite their unique properties, their realization in electronic systems on realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Haiyue Huang , Prineha Narang , Ioannis Petrides

We present a recipe for an electronic 2D higher order topological insulator (HOTI) on the triangular lattice that can be realized in a large family of materials. The essential ingredient is mirror symmetry breaking, which allows for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Philipp Eck , Yuan Fang , Domenico Di Sante , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Jennifer Cano

Topological states nurtures the emergence of devices with unprecedented functions in photonics, plasmonics, acoustics and phononics. As one of the recently discovered members, higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-17 Biye Xie , Hai-Xiao Wang , Xiujuan Zhang , Peng Zhan , Jian-Hua Jiang , Minghui Lu , Yanfeng Chen

The emerging field of topology has brought device effects to a new level. Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) go beyond traditional descriptions of bulk-edge correspondence, broadening the understanding of topologically insulating…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-03 Hui Chang Li , Xiang Zhou , Hai Lin Chi , Wen Wen Wang , Yun Shen , Xiao Hua Deng

We show that scattering from the boundary of static, higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) can be used to simulate the behavior of (time-periodic) Floquet topological insulators. We consider D-dimensional HOTIs with gapless corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Selma Franca , Fabian Hassler , Ion Cosma Fulga

The higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) protected by spacial symmetry has been studied in-depth on models with square lattice. Our work, based on an alternative model on the breathing Kagome lattice, revealed that the different types…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Yichen Xu , Ruolan Xue , Shaolong Wan

We propose a general principle for constructing higher-order topological (HOT) phases. We argue that if a $D$-dimensional first-order or regular topological phase involves $m$ Hermitian matrices that anti-commute with additional $p-1$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Dumitru Calugaru , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

A $d$-dimensional second-order topological insulator (SOTI) can host topologically protected $(d - 2)$-dimensional gapless boundary modes. Here we show that a 2D non-Hermitian SOTI can host zero-energy modes at its corners. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tao Liu , Yu-Ran Zhang , Qing Ai , Zongping Gong , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda , Franco Nori

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) or multipole insulators, hosting peculiar corner states, were discovered [arXiv:1611.07987, arXiv:1708.03636]. It was independently discovered [arXiv:1702.00624] that continuum 5-dimensional (5D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Koji Hashimoto , Yoshinori Matsuo

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have attracted much attention in photonics due to the tightly localized disorder-robust corner and hinge states. Here, we reveal an unconventional HOTI phase with vanishing dipole and quadrupole…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-25 Maxim Mazanov , Maxim A. Gorlach

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are a novel type of topological phases which supports $d$-dimensional topological boundary states in $D$-dimensional systems with $D-d>1$. In this work, we theoretically predict that interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Jiang Yao , Linhu Li

Momentum-space nonsymmorphic symmetries, stemming from the projective algebra of synthetic gauge fields, can modify the manifold of the Brillouin zone and lead to a variety of topological phenomena. We present an acoustic realization of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Jinbing Hu , Kai Zhou , Tianle Song , Xuntao Jiang , Songlin Zhuang , Yi Yang

In two dimensions, Hermitian lattices with non-zero Chern numbers and non-Hermitian lattices with a higher-order skin effect (HOSE) bypass the constraints of the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem at their one-dimensional boundaries. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yifan Wang , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

We identify the possibility of realizing higher order topological (HOT) phases in noncrystalline or amorphous materials. Starting from two and three dimensional crystalline HOT insulators, accommodating topological corner states, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Adhip Agarwala , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

We introduce higher order polariton topological insulator (HOTI) realized with fractal array of microcavity pillars arranged into Sierpinski gasket-like geometry. This system exhibiting self similarity in different generations, can support…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Khalil Sabour , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Notion of square-root topological insulators have been recently generalized to higher-order topological insulators. In two-dimensional square-root higher-order topological insulators, emergence of in-gap corner states are inherited from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Daiki Matsumoto , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The interplay between crystalline symmetry and band topology gives rise to unprecedented lower-dimensional boundary states in higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). However, the measurement of the topological invariants of HOTIs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Ling Lin , Chaohong Lee

Quadrupole phase, as a novel high-order topological phase, exhibits nontrivial gapless states at the boundaries whose dimension is lower than bulk by two. However, this phase has not been observed experimentally in two-dimensional (2D)…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-03 Z. H. Li , P. Zhou , Q. H. Yan , X. Y. Peng , Z. S. Ma , L. Z. Sun

Floquet higher order topological insulators (FHOTIs) are a novel topological phase that can occur in periodically driven lattices. An appropriate experimental platform to realize FHOTIs has not yet been identified. We introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Weiwei Zhu , Y. D. Chong , Jiangbin Gong