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The geometry and topology of quantum systems have deep connections to quantum dynamics. In this paper, I show how to measure the non-Abelian Berry curvature and its related topological invariant, the second Chern number, using dynamical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-06 Michael Kolodrubetz

We investigate how topological Chern numbers can be defined when single-particle states hybridize with continua. We do so exemplarily in a bosonic Haldane model at zero temperature with an additional on-site decay of one boson into two and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 B. Hawashin , J. Sirker , G. S. Uhrig

The study of unconventional phases and elucidation of correspondences between topological invariants and their intriguing properties are pivotal in topological physics. Here, we investigate a complex exceptional ring (CER), composed of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhoutao Lei , Yuangang Deng

One of the main topological invariants that characterizes several topologically-ordered phases is the many-body Chern number (MBCN). Paradigmatic examples include several fractional quantum Hall phases, which are expected to be realized in…

Chern number is a crucial invariant for characterizing topological feature of two-dimensional quantum systems. Real-space Chern number allows us to extract topological properties of systems without involving translational symmetry, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ling Lin , Yongguan Ke , Li Zhang , Chaohong Lee

Topological phase transitions are typically characterized by abrupt changes in a quantized invariant. Here we report a contrasting paradigm in non-Hermitian parity-time symmetric systems, where the topological invariant remains conserved,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , Peng Xue , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

Band topology of anomalous quantum Hall insulators can be precisely addressed by computing Chern numbers of constituent non-degenerate bands that describe quantized, Abelian Berry flux through two-dimensional Brillouin zone. Can Chern…

Topological qauntum field theory(TQFT) is a very powerful theoretical tool to study topological phases and phase transitions. In $2+1$D, it is well known that the Chern-Simons theory captures all the universal topological data of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-26 Qing-Rui Wang , Meng Cheng , Chenjie Wang , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Quantum mechanics on sphere $S^{n}$ is studied from the viewpoint that the Berry's connection has to appear as a topological term in the effective action. Furthermore we show that this term is the Chern-Simons term of gauge variables that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 H. Ikemori , S. Kitakado , H. Otsu , T. Sato

The entanglement Chern number, the Chern number for the entanglement Hamiltonian, is used to charac- terize the Kane-Mele model, which is a typical model of the quantum spin Hall phase with the time reversal symmetry. We first obtain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 Hiromu Araki , Toshikaze Kariyado , Takahiro Fukui , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The topological structure of the wavefunctions of particles in periodic potentials is characterized by the Berry curvature $\Omega_{kn}$ whose integral on the Brillouin zone is a topological invariant known as the Chern number. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We study the ground-state topology and quasiparticle properties in bosonic Mott insulators with two- dimensional spin-orbit couplings in cold atomic optical lattices. We show that the many-body Chern and spin-Chern number can be expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 Clement H. Wong , R. A. Duine

We detect the topological properties of Chern insulators with strong Coulomb interactions by use of cluster perturbation theory and variational cluster approach. The common scheme in previous studies only involves the calculation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-30 Zhao-Long Gu , Kai Li , Jian-Xin Li

We propose characterization of the three-dimensional topological insulator by using the Chern number for the entanglement Hamiltonian (entanglement Chern number). Here we take the extensive spin partition of the system, that pulls out the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Hiromu Araki , Takahiro Fukui , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

A topological pump of the $SU(Q)$ quantum chain is proposed associated with a current due to a local $[U(1)]^{\otimes Q}$ gauge invariance of colored fermions. The $SU(Q)$ invariant dimer phases are characterized by the $Z_Q$ Berry phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-24 Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Yoshihito Kuno

Quantum geometry has emerged as a central and ubiquitous concept in quantum sciences, with direct consequences on quantum metrology and many-body quantum physics. In this context, two fundamental geometric quantities are known to play…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Bruno Mera , Anwei Zhang , Nathan Goldman

We consider the quantum spin hall state in a three orbital model due to certain loop current order induced by spin-dependent interactions. This type of order is motivated by the loop current model which is proposed to describe the pseudogap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Yan He , Changtao Hou

Quantum metrology is deeply connected to quantum geometry, through the fundamental notion of quantum Fisher information. Inspired by advances in topological matter, it was recently suggested that the Berry curvature and Chern numbers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Min Yu , Xiangbei Li , Yaoming Chu , Bruno Mera , F. Nur Ünal , Pengcheng Yang , Yu Liu , Nathan Goldman , Jianming Cai

Topological invariants such as Chern classes are by now a standard way to classify topological phases. Introducing and varying parameters in such systems leads to phase diagrams, where the Chern classes may jump when crossing a critical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Mohamad Mousa , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

Berry curvature is a fundamental element to characterize topological quantum physics, while a full measurement of Berry curvature in momentum space was not reported for topological states. Here we achieve two-dimensional Berry curvature…