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Do the spacetime manifolds which feature in our best scientific theories reflect anything metaphysically weighty in the world (e.g., any fundamental substances or relations)? Should we extend our notions of space and time beyond the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Daniel Grimmer

We numerically verify and analytically prove a winding number invariant that correctly predicts the number of edge states in one-dimensional, nearest-neighbor (between unit cells), two-band models with any complex couplings and open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Janet Zhong , Heming Wang , Alexander N Poddubny , Shanhui Fan

We presented the topological current of Ehrenfest definition of phase transition. It is shown that different topology of the configuration space corresponds to different phase transition, it is marked by the Euler number of the interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tieyan Si

The appearance of topological effects in systems exhibiting a non-trivial topological band structure strongly relies on the coherent wave nature of the equations of motion. Here, we reveal topological dynamics in a classical stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 G. Engelhardt , M. Benito , G. Platero , G. Schaller , T. Brandes

The investigation of the Hamiltonian dynamical counterpart of phase transitions, combined with the Riemannian geometrization of Hamiltonian dynamics, has led to a preliminary formulation of a differential-topological theory of phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-19 Matteo Gori , Roberto Franzosi , Giulio Pettini , Marco Pettini

Second order quantum phase transitions, with well-known features such as long-range entanglement, symmetry breaking, and gap closing, exhibit quantum enhancement for sensing at criticality. However, it is unclear which of these features are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Saubhik Sarkar , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Abhijeet Alase , Abolfazl Bayat

The tunneling Hamiltonian has proven to be a useful method in many body physics to treat particle tunneling between different states represented as wave functions. Here we present a generalization of the tunneling Hamiltonian to quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Beckwith

Topology in momentum space is the main characteristics of the ground states of a system at zero temperature, the quantum vacua. The gaplessness of fermions in bulk, on the surface or inside the vortex core is protected by topology.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-30 G. E. Volovik

It is now well-established that photonic systems can exhibit topological energy bands; similar to their electronic counterparts, this leads to the formation of chiral edge modes which can be used to transmit light in a manner that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Vittorio Peano , Martin Houde , Florian Marquardt , Aashish A. Clerk

As a point of departure it is suggested that Quantum Cosmology is a topological concept independent from metrical constraints. Methods of continuous topological evolution and topological thermodynamics are used to construct a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Kiehn

Topological quantum numbers are often used to characterise the topological order of phase having protected gapless edge modes when the system is kept in a space with the boundary. The famous examples in this category are the quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Saurabh Kumar Srivastav , Anindya Das

The quantum walk was originally proposed as a quantum mechanical analogue of the classical random walk, and has since become a powerful tool in quantum information science. In this paper, we show that discrete time quantum walks provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 Takuya Kitagawa , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg , Eugene Demler

Recently, CoSi has been identified to have unconventional electronic topology due to lack of inversion center in its B20 cubic structure. The electronic topology has been reported to be present at three nodal points found in the band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-16 Paromita Dutta , Sudhir K. Pandey

Topological physics opens up a plethora of exciting phenomena allowing to engineer disorder-robust unidirectional flows of light. Recent advances in topological protection of electromagnetic waves suggest that even richer functionalities…

Using the fiber bundle concept developed in geometry and topology, the fractionally quantized Hall conductivity is discussed in the relevant many--particle configuration space. Electron-magnetic field and electron-electron interactions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Asselmeyer , R. Keiper

The key obstacle to the realization of a scalable quantum computer is overcoming environmental and control errors. Topological quantum computation has attracted great attention because it has emerged as one of the most promising approaches…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Deyuan Zou , Naiqiao Pan , Tian Chen , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

The Seebeck coefficient plays a fundamental role in identifying the efficiency of a thermoelectric device. Its theoretical evaluation for atomistic models is routinely based on Density Functional Theory calculations combined with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kaike Yang , Enrico Perfetto , Stefan Kurth , Gianluca Stefanucci , Roberto D'Agosta

Quantum rings have emerged as a playground for quantum mechanics and topological physics, with promising technological applications. Experimentally realizable quantum rings, albeit at the scale of a few nanometers, are 3D nanostructures.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-16 Elena Landro' , Vladimir M. Fomin , Alessio Zaccone

Topologically ordered phase has emerged as one of most exciting concepts that not only broadens our understanding of phases of matter, but also has been found to have potential application in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Zhihuang Luo , Chao Lei , Jun Li , Xinfang Nie , Zhaokai Li , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Using Kubo's linear response theory, we derive expressions for the frequency-dependent electrical conductivity (Kubo-Greenwood formula), thermopower, and thermal conductivity in a strongly correlated electron system. These are evaluated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-04 Bastian Holst , Martin French , Ronald Redmer