Demonstration of Acoustic Higher-Order Topological Stiefel-Whitney Semimetal

X Xiang, YG Peng, F Gao, X Wu, P Wu, Z Chen, X Ni… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The higher-order topological phases have attracted intense attention in the past years,
which reveals various intriguing topological properties. Meanwhile, the enrichment of group …

Electron-phonon coupling induced topological phase transition in an Haldane-Holstein model

M Islam, K Bhattacharyya, S Basu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We present impelling evidence of topological phase transitions induced by electron-phonon
(e-ph) coupling in an α-T 3 Haldane-Holstein model that facilitates smooth tunability …

Acoustic Klein bottle insulator

Z Pu, H He, W Deng, X Huang, L Ye, J Lu, M Ke, Z Liu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Internal and crystalline symmetries play critical roles in the classification of topological
materials. Recently, the crystalline symmetries are found to allow projective representations …

Brillouin Klein space and half-turn space in three-dimensional acoustic crystals

Z Zhu, L Yang, J Wu, Y Meng, X Xi, B Yan, J Chen, J Lu… - Science Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
The Bloch band theory and Brillouin zone (BZ) that characterize wave-like behaviors in
periodic mediums are two cornerstones of contemporary physics, ranging from condensed …

Machine learning-assisted inverse design of wide-bandgap acoustic topological devices

X Li, Y Qin, G He, F Lian, S Zuo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The topological simulation of acoustic waves has induced unconventional propagation
characteristics, thereby offering extensive application potential in the field of acoustics. In …

Non-Abelian Braiding of Topological Edge Bands

Y Long, Z Wang, C Zhang, H Xue, YX Zhao, B Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Braiding is a geometric concept that manifests itself in a variety of scientific contexts from
biology to physics, and has been employed to classify bulk band topology in topological …

Symmetry determined topology from flux dimerization

G Jiang, ZY Chen, SJ Yue, WB Rui, XM Zhu, SA Yang… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In the field of symmetry-protected topological phases, a common wisdom is that the
symmetries may fix the nontrivial topological classifications, but they alone cannot determine …

Higher-Order Topological Insulators via Momentum-Space Nonsymmorphic Symmetries

J Hu, S Zhuang, Y Yang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We theoretically construct a higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) on a Brillouin real
projective plane enabled by momentum-space nonsymmorphic (k-NS) symmetries from …

Cyclic Evolution of Synergized Spin and Orbital Angular Momenta

L Liu, XC Sun, Y Tian, X Zhang, MH Lu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) are fundamental
physical characteristics described by polarization and spatial degrees of freedom …

Real-projective-plane hybrid-order topological insulator realized in phononic crystals

P Lai, J Wu, Z Pu, Q Zhou, J Lu, H Liu, W Deng… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
The manifold of the fundamental domain of the Brillouin zone is always considered to be a
torus. However, under the synthetic gauge field, the Brillouin manifold can be modified by …