Phonon-induced Floquet second-order topological phases protected by space-time symmetries

Abstract

The co-existence of spatial and non-spatial symmetries together with appropriate commutation/anticommutation relations between them can give rise to static higher-order topological phases, which host gapless boundary modes of co-dimension higher than one. Alternatively, space-time symmetries in a Floquet system can also lead to anomalous Floquet boundary modes of higher co-dimensions, presumably with alterations in the commutation/anticommutation relations with respect to non-spatial symmetries. We show how a coherently excited phonon mode can be used to promote a spatial symmetry with which the static system is always trivial, to a space-time symmetry which supports non-trivial Floquet higher-order topological phase. We present two examples -- one in class D and another in class AIII where a coherently excited phonon mode promotes the reflection symmetry to a time-glide symmetry such that the commutation/anticommutation relations between spatial and non-spatial symmetries are modified. These altered relations allow the previously trivial system to host gapless modes of co-dimension two at reflection-symmetric boundaries.

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