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We reveal that the competition between diffraction, cubic nonlinearity, two-photon absorption, and gain localized in both space and time results in arrest of collapse, suppression of azimuthal modula-tion instabilities for spatiotemporal…

Time-periodic perturbations can be used to engineer topological properties of matter by altering the Floquet band structure. This is demonstrated for a spin Hall insulator in the presence of monochromatic circularly polarized light. The…

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We consider spin chain families inspired by the Su, Schrieffer and Hegger (SSH) model. We demonstrate explicitly the topologically induced spatial localisation of quantum states in our systems. We present detailed investigations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Marta P. Estarellas , Irene D'Amico , Timothy P. Spiller

Topological photonic systems offer a robust platform for guiding light in the presence of disorder, but their interplay with quantum emitters remains a frontier for realizing strongly correlated quantum states. Here, we explore a…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-26 Fatemeh Davoodi

Topological phases feature robust edge states that are protected against the effects of defects and disorder. The robustness of these states presents opportunities to design technologies that are tolerant to fabrication errors and resilient…

The control of the electronic properties of materials via the vacuum fields of cavity electromagnetic resonators is one of the emerging frontiers of condensed matter physics. We show here that the enhancement of vacuum field fluctuations in…

The quantization of conductance in the presence of non-magnetic point defects is a consequence of topological protection and the spin-momentum locking of helical edge states in two-dimensional topological insulators. This protection ensures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Mohadese Karimi , Mohsen Amini , Morteza Soltani , Mozhgan Sadeghizadeh

The discovery of topologically non-trivial electronic systems has opened a new age in condensed matter research. From topological insulators to topological superconductors and Weyl semimetals, it is now understood that some of the most…

An array of ring resonators specifically designed can perform as a topological insulator. We conduct simulations using both Tight-Binding Model (TBM) and Transfer Matrix Method (TMM) to analyze the transport properties of such optical…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-20 Xiaohui Jiang , Yujie Chen , Chenxuan Yin , Yanfeng Zhang , Hui Chen , Siyuan Yu

Topological quantum sensing leverages unique topological features to suppress noise and improve the precision of parameter estimation, emerging as a promising tool in both fundamental research and practical application. In this Letter, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Xiaowei Tong , Xingze Qiu , Xiang Zhan , Quan Lin , Kunkun Wang , Franco Nori , Peng Xue

Since the experimental realization of synthetic gauge fields for neutral atoms, the simulation of topologically non-trivial phases of matter with ultracold atoms has become a major focus of cold atom experiments. However, several obvious…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-21 Michael Buchhold , Daniel Cocks , Walter Hofstetter

Discrete quantum walks are dynamical protocols for controlling a single quantum particle. Despite of its simplicity, quantum walks display rich topological phenomena and provide one of the simplest systems to study and understand…

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Systems displaying quantum topological order feature robust characteristics that are very attractive to quantum computing schemes. Topological quantum field theories have proven to be powerful in capturing the quintessential attributes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 P. Vojta , G. Ortiz , Z. Nussinov

The recent research of topological photonics has not only proposed and realized novel topological phenomena such as one-way broadband propagation and robust transport of light, but also designed and fabricated photonic devices with…

Topological photonic systems, with their ability to host states protected against disorder and perturbation, allow us to do with photons what topological insulators do with electrons. Topological photonics can refer to electronic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Marie S. Rider , Samuel J. Palmer , Simon R. Pocock , Xiaofei Xiao , Paloma Arroyo Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

Nonlinear transport phenomena in condensed matter reflect the geometric nature, quantum coherence, and many-body correlation of electronic states. Electric currents in solids are classified into (i) Ohmic current, (ii) supercurrent, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

The robust transport of edge modes is perhaps the most useful property of topological materials. The existence of edge modes is guaranteed by the bulk-edge correspondence, which states that the number of topological edge modes is determined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Mudi Wang , Qiyun Ma , Shan Liu , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Lei Zhang , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu , C. T. Chan

Topological photonics has been introduced as a powerful platform for integrated optics, since it can deal with robust light transport, and be further extended to the quantum world. Strikingly, valley-contrasting physics in topological…

We propose a topological plasmonic crystal structure composed of an array of parallel nanowires with unequal spacing. In the paraxial approximation, the Helmholtz equation that describes the propagation of light along the nanowires maps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Chenxu Liu , M. V. Gurudev Dutt , David Pekker

The magnetic field opens a gap in the edge state spectrum of two-dimensional topological insulators thereby destroying protection of these states against backscattering. To relate properties of this gap to parameters of the system and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 O. E. Raichev