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Photonic systems with parity-time (PT) symmetry and topology are attracting considerable attentions. In this work, topological near-zero edge states are studied in PT-symmetric photonic lattice and the results indicate that the near-zero…

We report the exact closed-form solutions for higher-order topological states as well as explicit energy-spectrum relationships in two-dimensional (2D) non-Hermitian multi-orbital lattices with generalized boundary conditions. These…

We predict the existence of spatially localized nontrivial topological states of the Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atomic interactions confined by an optical lattice. These nonlinear localized states, matter-wave gap vortices,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Yuri S. Kivshar

Lattice defects such as stacking faults may obscure electronic topological features of real materials. In fact, defects are a source of disorder that can enhance the density of states and conductivity of the bulk of the system and they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Gabriele Naselli , Viktor Könye , Sanjib Kumar Das , G. G. N. Angilella , Anna Isaeva , Jeroen van den Brink , Cosma Fulga

We report about a mechanism for surface localization, present in finite defect-free polyatomic lattices described by a tight binding model. Numerical diagonalization and degenerated perturbation theory show that there is a minimum number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Ricardo A. Pinto

The topological states of the two-leg and three-leg ladders formed by two trivial quantum wires with different lattice constants are theoretically investigated. Firstly, we take two trivial quantum wires with a lattice constant ratio of 1:2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Jing-Run Lin , Linxi Lv , Zheng-Wei Zuo

The possibility is considered for the formation in optical lattices of a heterogeneous state characterized by a spontaneous mesoscopic separation of the system into the spatial regions with different atomic densities. It is shown that such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-23 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Topological edge states form at the edges of periodic materials with specific degeneracies in their modal spectra, such as Dirac points, under the action of effects breaking certain symmetries of the system. In particular, in Floquet…

Topological materials exhibit protected edge modes that have been proposed for applications in for example spintronics and quantum computation. While a number of such systems exist, it would be desirable to be able to test theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-15 Robert Drost , Teemu Ojanen , Ari Harju , Peter Liljeroth

We present exactly solvable examples that topological Mott insulators can emerge from topologically trivial states due to strong interactions between atoms for atomic mixtures trapped in one-dimensional optical superlattice systems. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-22 Zhihao Xu , Shu Chen

Recently, higher-order topological phases have been extended from Euclidean lattices to non-Euclidean hyperbolic lattices. Though higher-order topological type-I hyperbolic lattices have been extensively studied, their counterpart,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Liren Chen , Jingming Chen , Zhen Gao

Topological invariants have proved useful for analyzing emergent function as they characterize a property of the entire system, and are insensitive to local details, disorder, and noise. They support boundary states, which reduce the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Evelyn Tang

Topological states have been widely investigated in different types of systems and lattices. In the present work, we report on topological edge states in double-wave (DW) chains, which can be described by a generalized Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-17 Tobias Schneider , Wenlong Gao , Thomas Zentgraf , Stefan Schumacher , Xuekai Ma

In this work, we consider a tight binding lattice with two non-Hermitian impurities. The system is described by a non-Hermitian generalization of the Aubry Andre model. We show for the first time that there exists topologically nontrivial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Cem Yuce

One of the hallmarks of topological insulators is the correspondence between the value of its bulk topological invariant and the number of topologically protected edge modes observed in a finite-sized sample. This bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ana Silva , Jasper van Wezel

Topological states of matter are peculiar quantum phases showing different edge and bulk transport properties connected by the bulk-boundary correspondence. While non-interacting fermionic topological insulators are well established by now…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-18 M. Di Liberto , A. Hemmerich , C. Morais Smith

In this Letter, it is shown that interactions can facilitate the emergence of topological edge states of quantum-degenerate bosonic systems in the presence of a harmonic potential. This effect is demonstrated with the concrete model of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-05 Bogdan Galilo , Derek K. K. Lee , Ryan Barnett

We show that the evolution of two-component particles governed by a two-dimensional spin-orbit lattice Hamiltonian can reveal transitions between topological phases. A kink in the mean width of the particle distribution signals the closing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-16 Wei-Wei Zhang , Barry C. Sanders , Simon Apers , Sandeep K. Goyal , David L. Feder

We establish non-Hermitian topological mechanics in one dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) lattices consisting of mass points connected by meta-beams that lead to odd elasticity. Extended from the "non-Hermitian skin effect" in 1D…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Di Zhou , Junyi Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the band properties of 2D honeycomb plasmonic lattices consisting of metallic nanoparticles. By means of the coupled dipole method and quasi-static approximation, we theoretically analyze the band structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Li Wang , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Meng Xiao , Dezhuan Han , C. T. Chan , Weijia Wen