Abstract
The quadrupole insulator, a high-order topological insulator, with on-site Hubbard interaction is numerically studied by large-scale projector quantum Monte Carlo (PQMC) simulations. The Green's function formalism is successfully used to characterize topological properties in interacting quadrupole insulators for the first time. We find that the topological quadrupole insulator is stable against weak interactions and turns into a trivial antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulator by a continuous topological phase transition (TPT) for strong interactions. The critical exponents related to the TPT are estimated to be $\nu=0.67(4)$, $\beta=0.40(2)$, which are distinct from those of the known AFM transitions and suggest a new universality class.
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