Arbitrarily configurable nonlinear topological modes

K Bai, JZ Li, TR Liu, L Fang, D Wan, M Xiao - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Topological modes (TMs) are typically localized at boundaries, interfaces and dislocations,
and exponentially decay into the bulk of a large enough lattice. Recently, the non-Hermitian …

Amorphous topological matter: Theory and experiment

P Corbae, JD Hannukainen, Q Marsal… - Europhysics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological phases of matter are ubiquitous in crystals, but less is known about their
existence in amorphous systems, that lack long-range order. We review the recent progress …

Local invariants identify topology in metals and gapless systems

A Cerjan, TA Loring - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Although topological band theory has been used to discover and classify a wide array of
novel topological phases in insulating and semimetal systems, it is not well suited to …

Real-space topological invariant for time-quasiperiodic Majorana modes

Z Qi, I Na, G Refael, Y Peng - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
When subjected to quasiperiodic driving protocols, superconducting systems have been
found to harbor robust time-quasiperiodic Majorana modes, extending the concept beyond …

An operator-based approach to topological photonics

A Cerjan, TA Loring - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Recently, the study of topological structures in photonics has garnered significant interest, as
these systems can realize robust, nonreciprocal chiral edge states and cavity-like confined …

Revealing topology in metals using experimental protocols inspired by K-theory

W Cheng, A Cerjan, SY Chen, E Prodan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Topological metals are conducting materials with gapless band structures and nontrivial
edge-localized resonances. Their discovery has proven elusive because traditional …

Classifying topology in photonic crystal slabs with radiative environments

S Wong, TA Loring, A Cerjan - npj Nanophotonics, 2024 - nature.com
In the recent years, photonic Chern materials have attracted substantial interest as they
feature topological edge states that are robust against disorder, promising to realize defect …

Probing topology in nonlinear topological materials using numerical -theory

S Wong, TA Loring, A Cerjan - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Nonlinear topological insulators have garnered substantial recent attention as they have
both enabled the discovery of new physics due to interparticle interactions, and may have …

Topological diffusive metal in amorphous transition metal monosilicides

S Franca, AG Grushin - Physical Review Materials, 2024 - APS
In chiral crystals crystalline symmetries can protect multifold fermions, pseudorelativistic
masless quasiparticles that have no high-energy counterparts. Their realization in transition …

Tutorial: Classifying Photonic Topology Using the Spectral Localizer and Numerical -Theory

A Cerjan, TA Loring - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03515, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recently, the spectral localizer framework has emerged as an efficient approach to
classifying topology in photonic systems featuring local nonlinearities and radiative …