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Gapless higher-order topology and corner states in Floquet systems

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Pith's one-line read Floquet driving keeps higher-order corner states alive exactly at gapless phase boundaries.

desk verdict Solid, honestly-scoped extension of Floquet gapless topology to 2D corner modes, with exact solutions backing the central claim; the 'unified scheme' label outruns the factorized-model restriction that the paper itself admits. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.08164 v3 pith:VW7GEOOT submitted 2025-01-14 quant-ph cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.quant-gas

Longwen Zhou , Rongtao Wang , Jiaxin Pan This is my paper · ORCID
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This paper claims that time-periodic (Floquet) driving can make the critical points between different two-dimensional higher-order topological phases themselves topologically nontrivial: fourfold-degenerate corner modes at quasienergy $0$ or $\pi$ survive exactly where the bulk quasienergy gap closes. The authors establish this for a chiral-symmetric 2D model built from a periodically kicked Creutz ladder and a static Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain, with Floquet operator $U(k_x,k_y)=U_x(k_x)\otimes U_y(k_y)$. They define generalized winding numbers $(\omega_0,\omega_\pi)$ that stay integer-quantized at the gapless critical lines, and prove the bulk-corner correspondence $(N_0,N_\pi)=4(\omega_0,\omega_\pi)$ both in gapped phases and along topological phase boundaries. If the claim is right, corner modes are not tied to a gapped bulk, and they can serve as direct signatures of Floquet higher-order topological criticality.

What carries the argument

The engine of the argument is the factorized Floquet operator $U(k_x,k_y)=U_x(k_x)\otimes U_y(k_y)$, assembled from two chiral-symmetric two-band building blocks: a periodically kicked Creutz ladder $U_x(k_x)$ and a static SSH chain $U_y(k_y)$. Because corner states are tensor products of 1D edge states, each parent contributes two degenerate edge modes and the product gives fourfold-degenerate corner modes. To count these modes at criticality, the paper replaces the conventional winding numbers with generalized invariants obtained by counting zeros and poles of complex continuations $f_{1x}(z)$ and $f_{2x}(z)$ inside the unit circle, using a modified pole-counting rule when the gap at quasienergy $\pi$ closes. The combinations $(\omega_{0x},\omega_{\pi x})=\frac12(\omega_{1x}+\omega_{2x},\omega_{1x}-\omega_{2x})$, multiplied by the SSH invariant $\omega_y$, yield $(\omega_0,\omega_\pi)$ and make the correspondence $(N_0,N_\pi)=4(\omega_0,\omega_\pi)$ hold uniformly across gapped and gapless parameter regions.

What would settle it

On the factorizable kicked CL-SSH lattice with parameters on the critical line at $\theta=3\pi/4$ in Fig. 1(d), count the zero-quasienergy eigenstates under open boundary conditions; the correspondence predicts exactly four localized corner modes, so any other count would falsify the central claim.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that the topological phase boundaries of a two-dimensional Floquet second-order topological insulator can host degenerate corner-localized eigenmodes at quasienergy $0$ or $\pi$ even though the bulk spectrum is gapless there. In the kicked CL-SSH model, the paper derives exact wavefunctions for these corner modes as tensor products of the edge modes of a kicked Creutz ladder and a static SSH chain, and it shows that their numbers are counted by the generalized invariants $(\omega_0,\omega_\pi)$ through $(N_0,N_\pi)=4(\omega_0,\omega_\pi)$. The correspondence is verified analytically by zero-pole counting and numerically by exact diagonalization in all gapped phases and along the critical lines where at least one quasienergy gap closes at $0$ or $\pi$. A second driving protocol that induces long-range couplings produces critical points where arbitrarily many $0$ and $\pi$ corner modes coexist, with invariants reaching $(2,2)$ and $(3,3)$ in the computed phase diagram.

Load-bearing premise

The central construction assumes the Floquet operator factorizes as $U(k_x,k_y)=U_x(k_x)\otimes U_y(k_y)$; if that product structure is not present, the proposed invariants cannot be computed by this scheme and the unified correspondence is not established, even though the corner modes appear numerically robust.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Along the nontrivial phase boundaries of the kicked CL-SSH model, exact diagonalization shows four localized corner modes at $E=0$ or $E=\pi$ while the bulk quasienergy spectrum is gapless, so Floquet corner modes can outlive the closing of the bulk gap.
  • The generalized invariants $(\omega_0,\omega_\pi)$ remain integer-quantized along critical lines where the conventional winding numbers take half-integer values, extending the bulk-corner correspondence to quantum critical points.
  • Under the alternative driving protocol, the same framework predicts and numerically confirms coexisting $0$ and $\pi$ corner modes on the same critical line, with mode counts $4(\omega_0,\omega_\pi)$ matching invariants such as $(1,1)$, $(2,2)$, and $(3,3)$.
  • The correspondence relies only on chiral symmetry and the two-band factorized structure, so it applies to any two-dimensional chiral-symmetric Floquet system driven along one spatial dimension.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • One testable extension is to scan the non-factorizable perturbed model of Appendix E across a grid of coupling strengths and check whether the corner-mode count tracks some non-factorized invariant; the paper only demonstrates robustness at two parameter points.
  • The tensor-product recipe suggests a hierarchy: stacking $n$ chiral Floquet wires should produce $n$th-order corner or hinge modes in $n$ dimensions with degeneracy multiplied by $2^n$ for each parent, a construction the paper mentions but does not develop.
  • Quench dynamics across a nontrivial critical line should leave residual corner population after the drive is abruptly changed, giving an experimentally accessible signature that distinguishes topological from trivial Floquet critical points.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript studies higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) at the critical points of two-dimensional Floquet systems. It constructs a 2D model by coupling a periodically kicked Creutz ladder and a static SSH chain so that the Floquet operator factorizes as U(kx,ky)=Ux(kx)⊗Uy(ky). The authors show that when the 1D parent has zero- and/or π-quasienergy edge modes, the 2D system hosts fourfold-degenerate corner modes at zero and/or π quasienergy, including along phase boundaries where the bulk quasienergy spectrum is gapless. They define generalized winding numbers (ω0,ωπ) via zero/pole counting of complex continuations of effective Hamiltonians and propose the bulk-corner correspondence (N0,Nπ)=4(ω0,ωπ), which they verify analytically through exact edge/corner-mode solutions in Appendices A-C and invariant computations in Appendix D, and numerically by exact diagonalization in Figs. 2-5. A second driving protocol is shown to produce larger coexisting numbers of zero and π corner modes, and Appendix E demonstrates robustness against perturbations that break the tensor-product structure and lattice symmetries but preserve chiral symmetry.

Significance. If established, the central physical message—that degenerate zero- and π-quasienergy corner modes can survive Floquet topological phase transitions even when the bulk is gapless—is new and, for the specific coupled-wire construction, well supported. The exact analytical wavefunctions for edge and corner modes (Appendices B-C) and their agreement with exact diagonalization are notable strengths, as are the robustness checks against chiral-symmetry-preserving perturbations and disorder in Appendix E. The significance is, however, limited by two factors: the invariants are only defined for factorized U=Ux⊗Uy, so the 'unified scheme' does not yet cover generic 2D chiral-symmetric Floquet systems; and the zero-pole counting rule underlying the bulk invariants is not fully specified, leaving the derivation of Eq. (44) incomplete as a first-principles bulk-corner correspondence.

major comments (2)
  1. [Sec. V; Eqs. (43)-(44)] The bulk-corner correspondence (N0,Nπ)=4(ω0,ωπ) is established only for Floquet operators that factorize as U(kx,ky)=Ux(kx)⊗Uy(ky). This restriction is stated in Sec. V, and the construction of the invariants in Eq. (43) as products |ω0xωy| and |ωπxωy|, together with the tensor-product corner wavefunctions in Eqs. (C2)-(C3), makes it explicit. The abstract and the sentence following Eq. (44), however, present this as a 'unified scheme' for 2D chiral-symmetric Floquet HOTPs without qualification. Because the invariants and the correspondence are not defined for non-factorized operators, the claimed level of generality is not supported. The manuscript should either restrict the claim to product/coupled-wire Floquet systems or supply a separate bulk invariant for the general case.
  2. [Appendix B, Eq. (B9); Appendix D, Eqs. (D5)-(D7)] The generalized zero-pole counting rule in Eq. (B9) is ad hoc and its practical implementation is ambiguous. For f2x(z) in Eq. (B7), the factor z/z^2 gives a simple pole at z=0. At the representative critical point (Jx0,Jx1)=(π/3,2π/3), the text states ω2x=1, but the formula N2z−N2p/2 with N2p=1 yields 1/2 if zeros are counted strictly inside the unit circle; obtaining 1 requires an unstated convention (e.g., ignoring the pole at the origin, or counting boundary zeros asymmetrically between f1x and f2x). The same ambiguity propagates into Eqs. (D5)-(D7), which are the derivation of the bulk side of Eq. (44). Since Eq. (44) is the central result, the authors should either state a complete counting convention (including how zeros on the unit circle and poles at z=0 are weighted) and re-derive the phase diagram, or present Eq. (44) as a numerically verified relationship of the explicit model rather than as a general derivation.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Appendix D, text following Eq. (D6)] The phrase 'the definition of (ω0x,ωπx) in Eq. (D6)' should refer to Eq. (B8), since Eq. (D6) defines only ω2x.
  2. [Eqs. (8), (16) and (B9)] The text says 'inside the unit circle |z|=1' in Eq. (8) and similar places; using |z|<1 would be unambiguous, especially because the critical cases discussed in Appendix B require a convention for zeros on the boundary.
  3. [Sec. IV, Eq. (48)] The derivation of the invariants for the second driving protocol U'(kx,ky) in Eq. (48) is not given; the phase diagram in Fig. 4(a) is presented without the analogous zero-pole computation. The reader must take the (ω0,ωπ) values in Fig. 4(a) on faith from numerics, so adding the corresponding invariant calculation or a statement that it follows from the same framework would improve completeness.

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No significant circularity: the bulk-corner correspondence in Eq. (44) is verified by independent exact bulk zero/pole counts and exact corner-mode solutions.

full rationale

The paper's central statement, (N0,Nπ)=4(ω0,ωπ), is not circular. The bulk invariants (ω0,ωπ) are computed in Appendices B and D from complex zero-pole counting based on the Cauchy argument principle, applied to the 1D parent Floquet operators, while the corner-mode numbers N0,Nπ are obtained in Appendices A and C from explicit exact wavefunctions of edge and corner modes. The two sides of Eq. (44) are derived through different routes, namely complex analysis versus real-space recurrence solutions, and their agreement is a verified identity rather than a fit. The only imported rule is the Nαp/2 subtraction at π-gap closures in Eq. (B9), which follows Ref. [75]; however, the present paper independently checks the resulting invariants against exact zero- and π-edge-mode solutions in Appendix B, so the argument does not rest solely on the self-citation. The factorization restriction U(kx,ky)=Ux(kx)⊗Uy(ky) is explicitly acknowledged in Sec. V, and Appendix E shows robustness of corner modes when factorization is broken while noting that the invariants then cannot be computed; this is an honest scope limitation rather than a circular step. The numerical spectra and IPR data in Figs. 2–5 and the disorder/perturbation checks in Appendix E provide independent benchmarks corroborating the analytic claims. Accordingly, no derivation step reduces to its own input by construction.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central results rest on two main structural assumptions: two-band chiral-symmetric parent systems and the factorization of the 2D Floquet operator into x and y parts. No parameters are fitted to data; all coupling constants are model inputs. The modified zero-pole counting rule (Eq. B9) is a definitional choice introduced to maintain integer invariants at π-gap closings, and is the least standard element of the construction.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The 1D parent Hamiltonians and their Floquet operators are two-band models with chiral symmetry.
    Required for winding-number definitions and edge-mode solutions; stated in Sec II and III and used throughout.
  • domain assumption The 2D Floquet operator factorizes as U(kx,ky) = Ux(kx) ⊗ Uy(ky).
    Acknowledged in Sec V as necessary for the invariants; this factorization is the structural basis of Eq. (44).
  • standard math Cauchy's argument principle for counting zeros and poles of complex functions.
    Used to define generalized winding numbers in Eqs. (8), (16), and (B8).
  • ad hoc to paper Modified pole-counting rule: ωαx = Nαz - Nαp/2 when the quasienergy gap at π closes.
    Introduced in Eq. (B9) to keep invariants integer along critical lines; without it, conventional winding numbers take half-integer values.
  • domain assumption Static phases are considered at half-filling.
    Used in Sec II to define the trivial and SOTI phases of the static CL-SSH model; the Floquet results do not depend on filling.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Gapless higher-order topology and corner states in Floquet systems},
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abstract

Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) possess localized and symmetry-protected eigenmodes at corners and along hinges in two and three dimensional lattices. The numbers of these topological boundary modes will undergo quantized changes at the critical points between different HOTPs. In this work, we reveal unique higher-order topology induced by time-periodic driving at the critical points of topological phase transitions, which has no equilibrium counterparts and also goes beyond the description of gapped topological matter. Using an alternately coupled Creutz ladder and its Floquet-driven descendants as illustrative examples, we analytically characterize and numerically demonstrate the zero and $\pi$ corner modes that could emerge at the critical points between different Floquet HOTPs. Moreover, we propose a unified scheme of bulk-corner correspondence for both gapless and gapped Floquet HOTPs protected by chiral symmetry in two dimensions. Our work reveals the possibility of corner modes surviving topological transitions in Floquet systems and initializes the study of higher-order Floquet topology at quantum criticality.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Schematic diagram of the lattice models and topological phase diagram of the 2D Floquet system. (a) Geometry of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Quasienergy spectra [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Floquet corner modes of the kicked CL-SSH model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Topological phase diagram of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Probability distributions of the corner modes of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Topological phase diagram of the 1D kicked CL. Each [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Floquet spectra and corner modes of the kicked CL-SSH model at the critical points [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png]

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