Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices

ZK Lin, Q Wang, Y Liu, H Xue, B Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
There are two prominent applications of the mathematical concept of topology to the physics
of materials: band topology, which classifies different topological insulators and semimetals …

Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …

All topological bands of all nonmagnetic stoichiometric materials

MG Vergniory, BJ Wieder, L Elcoro, SSP Parkin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Topological quantum chemistry and symmetry-based indicators have facilitated large-scale
searches for materials with topological properties at the Fermi energy (EF). We report the …

Topological Wannier cycles induced by sub-unit-cell artificial gauge flux in a sonic crystal

ZK Lin, Y Wu, B Jiang, Y Liu, SQ Wu, F Li, JH Jiang - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Gauge fields play a major role in understanding quantum effects. For example, gauge flux
insertion into single unit cells is crucial towards detecting quantum phases and controlling …

Higher-order Weyl semimetals

SAA Ghorashi, T Li, TL Hughes - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate higher-order Weyl semimetals (HOWSMs) having bulk Weyl nodes attached
to both surface and hinge Fermi arcs. We identify a new type of Weyl node, which we dub a …

Topological zero-dimensional defect and flux states in three-dimensional insulators

F Schindler, SS Tsirkin, T Neupert… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In insulating crystals, it was previously shown that defects with two fewer dimensions than
the bulk can bind topological electronic states. We here further extend the classification of …

Observation of Topological -Orbital Disclination States in Non-Euclidean Acoustic Metamaterials

Y Chen, Y Yin, ZK Lin, ZH Zheng, Y Liu, J Li, JH Jiang… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Disclinations—topological defects ubiquitously existing in various materials—can reveal the
intrinsic band topology of the hosting material through the bulk-disclination correspondence …

Observation of dislocation-induced topological modes in a three-dimensional acoustic topological insulator

H Xue, D Jia, Y Ge, Y Guan, Q Wang, S Yuan, H Sun… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The interplay between real-space topological lattice defects and the reciprocal-space
topology of energy bands can give rise to novel phenomena, such as one-dimensional …

Vortex states in an acoustic Weyl crystal with a topological lattice defect

Q Wang, Y Ge, H Sun, H Xue, D Jia, Y Guan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Crystalline materials can host topological lattice defects that are robust against local
deformations, and such defects can interact in interesting ways with the topological features …

Non-Hermitian skin effect of dislocations and its topological origin

BA Bhargava, IC Fulga, J Van Den Brink… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate that dislocations in two-dimensional non-Hermitian systems can give rise to
density accumulation or depletion through the localization of an extensive number of states …