Crystalline responses for rotation-invariant higher-order topological insulators

@article{MayMann2021CrystallineRF,
  title={Crystalline responses for rotation-invariant higher-order topological insulators},
  author={Julian May-Mann and Taylor L. Hughes},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2021}
}
Two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators can display a number of exotic phenomena such as half-integer charges localized at corners or disclination defects. In this paper, we analyze these phenomena, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the quadrupole insulator with C 4 rotation symmetry, and present a topological field theory description of the mixed geometry-charge responses. Our theory provides a unified description of the corner and disclination charges in terms of a physical… 
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