Vacancy-superlattice–induced higher-order topological corner states in a Chern insulator
- 23 March 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 142 (1), 16002
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/acc41d
Abstract
- Recent studies have discovered local potentials can induce nontrivial eigenmodes re-sponding to the bulk topology for the system. While previous studies focused on conventional first-order topological states emerging from vacancy superlattice, here we study higher-order topo-logical properties of the vacancy superlattice on a two-dimensional Chern insulator with particle-hole symmetry. The vacancy superlattice with alternate lattice spacings exhibits an emergent second-order topological phase characterized by the nontrivial edge polarization. This topological phase is robust against particle-hole symmetry-preserved perturbations as long as the energy gap remains open for the mid-gap states. Our work generalizes the nontrivial higher-order topological properties to a Chern insulator with local defect vacancies and provides a controllable platform for engineering higher-order topological corner states. Copyright (c) 2023 EPLAKeywords
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