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Quantized Topological Anderson-Thouless Pump

Quantum Gases 2025-05-29 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Thouless pump with quantized transports is topologically robust against small perturbations and disorders, while breaks down under sufficiently strong disorders. Here we propose counter-intuitive topological pumps induced by disorders in noninteracting and interacting systems. We first show an extrinsic topological pump driven by the on-site quasiperiodic potential for a two-loop sequence, where the disorder inequivalently suppresses the topology of two pump loops. Moreover, we reveal an intrinsic topological pump induced by the hopping quasiperiodic disorder from a trivial single-loop pump in the clean limit, dubbed the topological Anderson-Thouless pump (TATP) as a dynamical analogue of topological Anderson insulators. We demonstrate that the mechanism of the TATP is the disorder-induced shift of gapless critical points and the TATP can even exhibit in the dynamic disorder and interacting cases. Finally, we extend the TATP to higher-order topological systems with disorder-induced quantized corner transports. Our proposed TATPs present new members of the topological pump family and could be realized with ultracold atoms or photonic waveguides.

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@article{arxiv.2208.08625,
  title  = {Quantized Topological Anderson-Thouless Pump},
  author = {Yi-Piao Wu and Ling-Zhi Tang and Guo-Qing Zhang and Dan-Wei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.08625},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 13 figures (including supplemental materials)

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