Higher-order band topology

B **e, HX Wang, X Zhang, P Zhan, JH Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
A conventional topological insulator (TI) has gapped bulk states but gapless edge states.
The emergence of the gapless edge states is dictated by the bulk topological invariant of the …

Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics

M Kim, Z Jacob, J Rho - Light: Science & Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, topology has emerged as a major branch in broad areas of physics,
from atomic lattices to condensed matter. In particular, topology has received significant …

Biorthogonal bulk-boundary correspondence in non-Hermitian systems

FK Kunst, E Edvardsson, JC Budich, EJ Bergholtz - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Non-Hermitian systems exhibit striking exceptions from the paradigmatic bulk-boundary
correspondence, including the failure of bulk Bloch band invariants in predicting boundary …

Observation of higher-order topological acoustic states protected by generalized chiral symmetry

X Ni, M Weiner, A Alu, AB Khanikaev - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Topological systems are inherently robust to disorder and continuous perturbations,
resulting in dissipation-free edge transport of electrons in quantum solids, or reflectionless …

Topological photonic crystals: physics, designs, and applications

GJ Tang, XT He, FL Shi, JW Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in topological photonics has not only proposed and realized novel
topological phenomena such as one‐way broadband propagation and robust transport of …

Quantization of fractional corner charge in -symmetric higher-order topological crystalline insulators

WA Benalcazar, T Li, TL Hughes - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
In the presence of crystalline symmetries, certain topological insulators present a filling
anomaly: a mismatch between the number of electrons in an energy band and the number of …

Direct observation of corner states in second-order topological photonic crystal slabs

XD Chen, WM Deng, FL Shi, FL Zhao, M Chen… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Recently, higher-order topological phases that do not obey the usual bulk-edge
correspondence principle have been introduced in electronic insulators and brought into …

Artificial flat band systems: from lattice models to experiments

D Leykam, A Andreanov, S Flach - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Certain lattice wave systems in translationally invariant settings have one or more spectral
bands that are strictly flat or independent of momentum in the tight binding approximation …

Second-order topological phases in non-Hermitian systems

T Liu, YR Zhang, Q Ai, Z Gong, K Kawabata, M Ueda… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
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 …

Corner states of light in photonic waveguides

A El Hassan, FK Kunst, A Moritz, G Andler… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The recently established paradigm of higher-order topological states of matter has shown
that not only edge and surface states, but also states localized to corners, can have robust …