Realization Conditions and the Magnetic Field Dependence of Corner Excitations in the Topological Insulator with Superconducting Coupling on the Triangular Lattice.

The studies of the topological properties of systems have recently been extended due to a new concept of higher-order topological insulators and superconductors. Many models were proposed for two-dimensional systems on a square lattice, where corner excitations can appear; however, the problem of existence of such excitations in superconducting systems with a triangular crystal lattice is still poorly understood. Using a topological insulator in the form of a triangle with a chiral superconducting order parameter as an example, we shows that corner excitations can exist in C3-symmetric systems. In spite of a nontopological character, these excitations have energies inside the gap of the first-order edge excitation spectrum over a wide parameter range and are well localized at the corners of the system. Gapless corner excitations are shown to exist in the system at certain parameters. The application of a magnetic field in the system plane removes the triple degeneracy of the corner excitation energy and makes it possible to control the position of the minimum-energy corner excitation using a magnetic field. At the same time the fine adjustment to achieve the gapless excitations at the chosen corner can be made with changing of the magnetic field value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]