Higher-order Klein bottle topological insulator in three-dimensional acoustic crystals

YL Tao, M Yan, M Peng, Q Wei, Z Cui, SA Yang… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Topological phases of matter are classified based on symmetries, with nonsymmorphic
symmetries like glide reflections and screw rotations being of particular importance in the …

Nematic superconductivity and its critical vestigial phases in the quasicrystal

YB Liu, J Zhou, F Yang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We propose a general mechanism to realize nematic superconductivity (SC) and reveal its
exotic vestigial phases in the quasicrystal (QC). Starting from a Penrose-Hubbard model, our …

Non-Hermitian quantum fractals

J Sun, CA Li, Q Guo, W Zhang, S Feng, X Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The first quantum fractal discovered in physics is the Hofstadter butterfly. It stems from large
external magnetic fields. We discover instead a class of non-Hermitian quantum fractals …

Mode-shell correspondence, a unifying phase space theory in topological physics-Part I: Chiral number of zero-modes

L Jezequel, P Delplace - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
We propose a theory, that we call the mode-shell correspondence, which relates the
topological zero-modes localised in phase space to a shell invariant defined on the surface …

Tunable cornerlike modes in generalized quadrupole topological insulators

R Chen, B Zhou, DH Xu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Higher-order topological insulators harbor unique corner modes that hold immense potential
for applications in information storage. However, the practical manipulation of these states …

Unveiling higher-order topology via polarized topological charges

W Jia, BZ Wang, MJ Gao, JH An - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) host exotic topological states that go beyond the
traditional bulk-boundary correspondence. Up to now, there is still a lack of experimentally …

Higher-order topology in twisted multilayer systems: a review

C Hua, DH Xu - Chinese Physics B, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in higher-order topological phases
(HOTPs) across various disciplines within the field of physics. These unique phases are …

Structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in quasicrystals

T Peng, YC Xiong, CB Hua, ZR Liu, X Zhu, W Cao, F Lv… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recently, structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in periodic systems have
attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems such as quasicrystalline systems …

Crafting crystalline topological insulators via accidental mode degeneracies

K Rodionenko, M Mazanov, MA Gorlach - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Crystalline topological insulators have recently become a powerful platform for realizing
photonic topological states from microwaves to the visible. Appropriate geometric …

Mode-Shell correspondence, a unifying theory in topological physics--Part I: Chiral number of zero-modes

L Jezequel, P Delplace - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05656, 2023 - arxiv.org
We propose a theory, that we call the\textit {mode-shell correspondence}, which relates the
topological zero-modes localised in phase space to a\textit {shell} invariant defined on the …