Higher-order band topology

B Xie, 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 …

Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals

BQ Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals (TSMs) are characterized by bulk band crossings in their electronic
structures, which are expected to give rise to gapless electronic excitations and topological …

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 …

Non-hermitian physics

Y Ashida, Z Gong, M Ueda - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A review is given on the foundations and applications of non-Hermitian classical and
quantum physics. First, key theorems and central concepts in non-Hermitian linear algebra …

A second wave of topological phenomena in photonics and acoustics

X Zhang, F Zangeneh-Nejad, ZG Chen, MH Lu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Light and sound are the most ubiquitous forms of waves, associated with a variety of
phenomena and physical effects such as rainbows and echoes. Light and sound, both …

Observation of hybrid higher-order skin-topological effect in non-Hermitian topolectrical circuits

D Zou, T Chen, W He, J Bao, CH Lee, H Sun… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Robust boundary states epitomize how deep physics can give rise to concrete experimental
signatures with technological promise. Of late, much attention has focused on two distinct …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Observation of higher-order non-Hermitian skin effect

X Zhang, Y Tian, JH Jiang, MH Lu, YF Chen - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Beyond the scope of Hermitian physics, non-Hermiticity fundamentally changes the
topological band theory, leading to interesting phenomena, eg, non-Hermitian skin effect, as …

Thouless pumping and topology

R Citro, M Aidelsburger - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Thouless pumping provides one of the simplest manifestations of topology in quantum
systems and has attracted a lot of recent interest, both theoretically and experimentally …

Bulk–disclination correspondence in topological crystalline insulators

Y Liu, S Leung, FF Li, ZK Lin, X Tao, Y Poo, JH Jiang - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Most natural and artificial materials have crystalline structures from which abundant
topological phases emerge,,,,–. However, the bulk–edge correspondence—which has been …