Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Time-periodic corner states from Floquet higher-order topology

  • Weiwei Zhu,
  • Haoran Xue,
  • Jiangbin Gong,
  • Yidong Chong,
  • Baile Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27552-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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A combination of Floquet engineering and higher-order topological insulators has been lately only theoretically proposed. Here the authors experimentally realize an acoustic waveguides array to demonstrate a Floquet higherorder topological insulator extending its band topology from first order to higher order.