2017/12/31 by Flore K. Kunst, Guido van Miert, Emil J. Bergholtz · 4 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Classical mechanics #Combinatorics #Geometry #Hinge #Homogeneous space #Lattice (music) #Mathematics #Physics #Pure mathematics #Theoretical physics #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Topological complexity #Topology (electrical circuits) #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.str-el #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.97.241405
published as Phys. Rev. B 97, 241405 (2018) · Published version
openalex publication_date 2018/06/11 · arxiv created 2018/06/12 · arxiv updated 2018/06/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We devise a generic recipe for constructing D-dimensional lattice models whose d-dimensional boundary states, located on surfaces, hinges, corners, and so forth, can be obtained exactly. The solvability is rooted in the underlying lattice structure and as such does not depend on fine tuning, allowing us to track their evolution throughout various phases and across phase transitions. Most saliently, our models provide ``boundary solvable'' examples of the recently introduced higher-order topological phases. We apply our general approach to breathing and anisotropic kagome and pyrochlore lattices for which we obtain exact corner eigenstates, and to periodically driven two-dimensional models as well as to three-dimensional lattices where we present exact solutions corresponding to one-dimensional chiral states at the hinges of the lattice. We relate the higher-order topological nature of these models to reflection symmetries in combination with their provenance from lower-dimensional conventional topological phases.