Interlayer Coupling Induced Topological Phase Transition to Higher Order

Abstract

We theoretically find that the second-order topological insulator, i.e., corner states, can be engineered by coupling two copies of two-dimensional ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ topological insulators with opposite spin-helicities. As concrete examples, we utilize Kane-Mele models (i.e., graphene with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling) to realize the corner states by setting the respective graphenes to be ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ topological insulators with opposite intrinsic spin-orbit couplings. To exhibit its universality, we generalize our findings to other representative ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ topological insulators, e.g., the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model. An effective model is presented to reveal the physical origin of corner states. We further show that the corner states can also be designed in other topological systems, e.g., by coupling quantum anomalous Hall systems with opposite Chern numbers. Our work suggests that interlayer coupling can be treated as a simple and efficient strategy to drive lower-order topological insulators to the higher-order ones.

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