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arXiv 2008.06272cond-mat.mes-hall
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内建类塞曼场拓扑绝缘体中的声学角态

Acoustic corner states in topological insulators with built-in Zeeman-like fields

Xueqin Huang, Jiuyang Lu, Zhongbo Yan, Mou Yan, Weiyin Deng, Gang Chen, Zhengyou Liu

摘要:

高阶拓扑绝缘体(HOTI),如拓扑角态,是拓扑物理领域的一个热门研究课题。但很少有人发现HOTI与Z_2指数描述的一阶拓扑绝缘体之间的联系。然而,最近,一项提案声称,可以在HOTI和Z_2拓扑绝缘体之间建立一个重要的桥梁。在Z_2拓扑绝缘体中,当施加面内塞曼场时,可以诱导出角态,即HOTI的特征。这样的塞曼场可以通过铁磁邻近效应或磁性原子掺杂等方法产生,这显然涉及到实验的复杂性。在这里,我们表明,声子晶体,设计为一个双层的耦合声学腔,主机正是凯恩-梅勒模型与内置的面内塞曼场。我们观察到沿锯齿形边缘的螺旋边缘态是带隙的,并且在空间上位于样品拐角处的拐角态出现在带隙中,证实了塞曼场引起的效应。我们进一步证明了有趣的对比度特性的角状态在外部和内部的角在一个六边形的环形样品。

英文摘要:

The higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), with such as the topological corner states, emerge as a thriving topic in the field of topological physics. But few connections have been found for the HOTIs with the well explored first-order topological insulators described by the Z_2 index. However, most recently, a proposal asserts that a significant bridge can be established between the HOTIs and the Z_2 topological insulators. When subject to an in-plane Zeeman field, the corner states, the signature of the HOTIs, can be induced in a Z_2 topological insulator. Such Zeeman field can be produced, for example, by the ferromagnetic proximity effect or magnetic atom doping, which obviously involves the drastically experimental complexity. Here we show that, a phononic crystal, designed as a bilayer of coupled acoustic cavities, hosts exactly the Kane-Mele model with built-in in-plane Zeeman fields. We observe that the helical edge states along the zigzag edges are gapped, and the corner states, localized spatially at the corners of the samples, appear in the gap, confirming the effect induced by the Zeeman field. We further demonstrate the intriguing contrast properties of the corner states at the outer and inner corners in a hexagonal ring-shaped sample.

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