Huyen Thanh Phan

Abstract Plant-pathogenic fungi cause crop disease via a range of secreted effector proteins that interact with specific receptors of host plant cells. Effector identification can enable the diagnosis of disease outcomes and enable selection or breeding of disease-resistant crop cultivars.

Abstract We numerically and experimentally demonstrated a higher-order topological state in a three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystal (PhC) with a complete photonic band gap. Two types of cubic lattices were designed with different topological invariants, which were theoretically and numerically confirmed by the finite difference of their Zak phases.

The electronic states and topological properties of the biphenylene network (BPN) are analyzed using a tight-binding model based on the π-electron network. It is shown that tuning the hopping parameters induces topological phase transitions, leading to the emergence of edge states owing to the nontrivial topological Zak phase of the bulk BPN. Elementary band analysis clearly gives the number of edge states, which are associated with the location of Wannier centers.