4D spinless topological insulator in a periodic electric circuit

• 作者: Andreas P.Schnyder Rui Yu Y.X.Zhao
• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 关键词: topological circuit 4D topological states 4D topological Hall effect second Chern number Weyl states
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（8）
• 页码范围: 1288-1295
• 页数: 8页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa065

摘要

According to the mathematical classification of topological band structures,there exist a number of fascinating topological states in dimensions larger than three with exotic boundary phenomena and interesting topological responses.While these topological states are not accessible in condensed matter systems,recent works have shown that synthetic systems,such as photonic crystals or electric circuits,can realize higher-dimensional band structures.Here,we argue that,because of its symmetry properties,the 4D spinless topological insulator is particularly well suited for implementation in these synthetic systems.We explicitly construct a 2D electric circuit lattice,whose resonance frequency spectrum simulates the 4D spinless topological insulator.We perform detailed numerical calculations of the circuit lattice and show that the resonance frequency spectrum exhibits pairs of3D Weyl boundary states,a hallmark of the nontrivial topology.These pairs of3D Weyl states with the same chirality are protected by classical time-reversal symmetry that squares to + 1,which is inherent in the proposed circuit lattice.We also discuss how the simulated 4D topological band structure can be observed in experiments.