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arXiv:1907.02868 (cond-mat)
[Submitted on 5 Jul 2019]

Title:Higher-Order Topological Insulator in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Authors:Moon Jip Park, Youngkuk Kim, Gil Young Cho, SungBin Lee
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Abstract:Higher-order topological insulators are newly proposed topological phases of matter, whose bulk topology manifests as localized modes at two- or higher-dimensional lower boundaries. In this work, we propose the twisted bilayer graphenes with large angles as higher-order topological insulators, hosting topological corner charges. At large commensurate angles, the intervalley scattering opens up the bulk gap and the corner states occur at half filling. Based on both first-principles calculations and analytic analysis, we show the striking results that the emergence of the corner states do not depend on the choice of the specific angles as long as the underlying symmetries are intact. Our results show that the twisted bilayer graphene can serve as a robust candidate material of two-dimensional higher-order topological insulator.
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
Cite as: arXiv:1907.02868 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:1907.02868v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1907.02868
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216803 (2019)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.216803

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From: Moon jip Park [view email]
[v1] Fri, 5 Jul 2019 14:47:46 UTC (7,063 KB)
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