Appearance of hinge states in second-order topological insulators via the cutting procedure

Abstract

In recent years, second-order topological insulators have been proposed as a new class of topological insulators. Second-order topological insulators are materials with gapped bulk and surfaces, but with topologically protected gapless states at the intersection of two surfaces. These gapless states are called hinge states. In this paper, we give a general proof that any insulators with inversion symmetry and gapped surface in class A always have hinge states when the ${\mathbb{Z}}_4$ topological index ${\mu }_1$ is ${\mu }_1=2$. We consider a three-dimensional insulator whose boundary conditions along two directions change by changing the hopping amplitudes across the boundaries. We study behaviors of gapless states through continuously changing boundary conditions along the two directions, and reveal that the behaviors of gapless states result from the ${\mathbb{Z}}_4$ strong topological index. From this discussion, we show that gapless states inevitably appear at the hinge of a three-dimensional insulator with gapped surfaces when the strong topological index is ${\mathbb{Z}}_4=2$ and the weak topological indices are ${\nu }_1={\nu }_2={\nu }_3=0$.

arXiv comment17 pages, 13 figures

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