$2^n$-root weak, Chern, and higher-order topological insulators, and $2^n$-root topological semimetals

Abstract

Recently, we have introduced in [A. M. Marques et al., Phys. Rev. B 103, 235425 (2021)] the concept of $2^n$-root topology and applied it to one-dimensional systems. These models require $n$ squaring operations to their Hamiltonians, intercalated with different constant energy downshifts at each level, in order to arrive at a decoupled block corresponding to a known topological insulator (TI) that acts as the source of the topological features of the starting $2^n$-root TI ($\sqrt[2^n]{\text{TI}}$). In the process, $n$ non-topological residual models with degenerate spectra and in-gap impurity states appear, which dilute the topologically protected component of the starting edge states. Here, we generalize this method to several two-dimensional models, by finding the 4-root version of lattices hosting weak and higher-order boundary modes (both topological and non-topological) of a Chern insulator and of a topological semimetal. We further show that a starting model with a non-Hermitian region in parameter space and a complex energy spectrum can nevertheless display a purely real spectrum for all its successive squared versions, allowing for an exact mapping between certain non-Hermitian models and their Hermitian lower root-degree counterparts. A comment is made on the possible realization of these models in artificial lattices.

arXiv comment21 pages, 14 figures

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