Multiple topological corner states in the continuum of extended kagome lattice

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Autores principales: Zhang, Shun-Peng, Gao, Ming-Jian, Jia, Wei, An, Jun-Hong
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Publicado: 2025
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author Zhang, Shun-Peng
Gao, Ming-Jian
Jia, Wei
An, Jun-Hong
author_facet Zhang, Shun-Peng
Gao, Ming-Jian
Jia, Wei
An, Jun-Hong
contents The kagome lattice is renowned for its exotic electronic properties, such as flat bands, Dirac points, and Van Hove singularities. These features have provided a fertile ground for exploring exotic quantum phenomena. Here, we discover that a breathing kagome lattice with long-range hoppings can host multiple zero-energy corner states, which emerge as topologically protected bound states in the continuum (BICs). This result demonstrates that additional hopping control can induce further non-trivial physics of the kagome lattice. Since the zero-energy corner states in the continuum are intertwined with a substantial number of zero-energy bulk states, we also develop a momentum-space topological characterization theory to precisely quantify the number of corner states, revealing a general bulk-corner correspondence. Furthermore, we uncover three distinct types of topological phase transitions (TPTs) for the BICs driven by shifts in the spatial localization of zero-energy bulk and/or edge states. These TPTs are exactly captured by our characterization theory. This work provides deep insights into the topological physics of the kagome lattice and broadens the understanding of its electronic properties
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spellingShingle Multiple topological corner states in the continuum of extended kagome lattice
Zhang, Shun-Peng
Gao, Ming-Jian
Jia, Wei
An, Jun-Hong
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The kagome lattice is renowned for its exotic electronic properties, such as flat bands, Dirac points, and Van Hove singularities. These features have provided a fertile ground for exploring exotic quantum phenomena. Here, we discover that a breathing kagome lattice with long-range hoppings can host multiple zero-energy corner states, which emerge as topologically protected bound states in the continuum (BICs). This result demonstrates that additional hopping control can induce further non-trivial physics of the kagome lattice. Since the zero-energy corner states in the continuum are intertwined with a substantial number of zero-energy bulk states, we also develop a momentum-space topological characterization theory to precisely quantify the number of corner states, revealing a general bulk-corner correspondence. Furthermore, we uncover three distinct types of topological phase transitions (TPTs) for the BICs driven by shifts in the spatial localization of zero-energy bulk and/or edge states. These TPTs are exactly captured by our characterization theory. This work provides deep insights into the topological physics of the kagome lattice and broadens the understanding of its electronic properties
title Multiple topological corner states in the continuum of extended kagome lattice
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00734