A mono-atomic orbital-based 1D topological crystalline insulator
arXiv:2310.10403 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.110.214110
Abstract
Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are classified by topological invariants defined with respect to the crystalline symmetries of their gapped bulk. The bulk-boundary correspondence then links the topological properties of the bulk to robust observables on the edges, e.g., the existence of robust edge modes or fractional charge. In one dimension, TCIs protected by reflection symmetry have been realized in a variety of systems where each unit cell has spatially distributed degrees of freedom (SDoF). However, these realizations of TCIs face practical challenges stemming from the sensitivity of the resulting edge modes to variations in edge termination and to the local breaking of the protective spatial symmetries by inhomogeneity. Here we demonstrate topologically protected edge states in a mono-atomic, orbital-based TCI that mitigates both of these issues. By collapsing all SDoF within the unit cell to a singular point in space, we eliminate the ambiguity in unit cell definition and hence remove a prominent source of boundary termination variability. The topological observables are also more tolerant to disorder in the orbital energies. To validate this concept, we experimentally realize a lattice of mechanical resonators where each resonator acts as an "atom" that harbors two key orbital degrees of freedom having opposite reflection parity. Our measurements of this system provide direct visualization of the -hybridization between orbital modes that leads to a non-trivial band inversion in the bulk. Furthermore, as the spatial width of the resonators is tuned, one can drive a transition between a topological and trivial phase. In the future we expect our approach can be extended to realize orbital-based obstructed atomic insulators and TCIs in higher dimensions.
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