Data from: Topological nano-switches in higher-order topological insulators

This repository provides data underlying the figures in the manuscript titled 'Topological nano-switches in higher-order topological insulators'.

The data is given in CSV-format and the data files are named after their respective figures. The data corresponding to figure 2 is provided separately for the four field orientations in each panel of the figure, and contains the probability density on each site of the discretized system as a 2D array.  Similarly, the data for figure C1 is provided separately. The other files contain the scattering matrix elements in columns labeled 'ij', with each row corresponding to an orientation of the magnetic field in the range [0, 2π] listed in the column labeled 'theta'. 

The data was generated using Kwant, a free (open source), powerful, and easy to use Python package for numerical calculations on tight-binding models. An example of how the studied systems were constructed is included in 'higher_order_ti_nano_switches.py', and contains the code to calculate the corresponding scattering matricies for a chosen set of parameters. The probability density included in the data related to figure 2 can similarly be extracted from the discretized system. See 'kwant-project.org' for additional details.