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Higher-order topological phases in two dimensions
Add to Calendar 2018-11-06T15:30:00 2018-11-06T16:30:00 UTC Higher-order topological phases in two dimensions

Physics CAMP Seminar

Davey Laboratory (339)
Start DateTue, Nov 06, 2018
10:30 AM
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End DateTue, Nov 06, 2018
11:30 AM
Presented By
Wladimir Benalcazar - The Pennsylvania State University

Physics CAMP Seminar

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I will describe certain topological crystalline insulators (TCI) in two dimensions that host corner-localized fractional charges quantized in multiples of the electronic charge. Recently, we found that this quantization of corner charge happens when TCIs have higher multipole moments in their bulk. In this presentation, I will show that TCIs with vanishing electric moments can also fractionally quantize their corner charge. I will also describe analogs of these phases in photonic systems and in topological superconductors, where the signatures are the protection of confinement of light propagation and the existence of corner-localized Majorana bound states, respectively.