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We introduce a one dimensional non-Hermitian four band tight binding lattice system. We find stable topological edge states protected by particle-hole and parity-time symmetries. We show that topological phase appears in the system. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 C. Yuce

We discuss the quantum simulation of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states for interacting fermions in quasi-one-dimensional gases of alkaline-earth-like atoms such as $^{173}$Yb. Taking advantage of the separation of orbital and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-06 Xiaofan Zhou , Jian-Song Pan , Zheng-Xin Liu , Wei Zhang , Wei Yi , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia

We study topological stability of nodes in nonsymmorphic superconductors (SCs). In particular, we demonstrate that line nodes in nonsymmirphic odd-parity SCs are protected by the interplay between topology and nonsymmorphic symmetry. As an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-18 Shingo Kobayashi , Youichi Yanase , Masatoshi Sato

Searching for topological insulators/superconductors is a central subject in recent condensed matter physics. As a theoretical aspect, various classification methods of symmetry-protected topological phases have been developed, where the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Shuntaro Sumita , Youichi Yanase

The extended Hubbard model with an attractive density-density interaction, positive pair hopping, or both, is shown to host topological phases, with a doubly degenerate entanglement spectrum and interacting edge spins. This constitutes a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-11 Roman Rausch , Matthias Peschke

We develop a framework to analyze one-dimensional topological superconductors with charge conservation. In particular, we consider models with $N$ flavors of fermions and $(\mathbb{Z}_2)^N$ symmetry, associated with the conservation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Anna Keselman , Erez Berg , Patrick Azaria

Time reversal (T) invariant topological insulator is widely recognized as one of the fundamental discoveries in condensed matter physics, for which the most fascinating hallmark is perhaps a spin based topological protection, the total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Xue-Feng Zhu , Yu-Gui Peng , Xiang-Yuan Yu , Han Jia , Ming Bao , Ya-Xi Shen , De-Gang Zhao

In 2+1D, topological electromagnetic phases are defined as atomic-scale media which host photonic monopoles in the bulk band structure and respect bosonic symmetries. Additionally, they support topologically protected spin-1 edge states,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-05 Todd Van Mechelen , Zubin Jacob

We study symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase transitions induced by stacking two gapped one-dimensional subsystems in BDI symmetry class. The topological invariant of the entire system is a sum of three topological invariants: two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Sang-Jun Choi , Björn Trauzettel

We show the presence of Majorana edge modes in an interacting fermionic ladder with spin in a number conserved setting. The interchain single particle hopping is suppressed and only a pair hopping is present between the different chains of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-23 Franco T. Lisandrini , Corinna Kollath

We present analysis of a single channel interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit coupling breaks the spin-rotational symmetry from SU(2) to U(1) and breaks inversion symmetry. The low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Nikolaos Kainaris , Sam T. Carr

A wide variety of higher-order symmetry protected topological phase(HOSPT) with gapless corners or hinges had been proposed as a descendant of topological crystalline insulator protected by spatial symmetry. In this work, we address a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Yizhi You

Topologically protected gapless edge states are phases of quantum matter which behave as massless Dirac fermions, immunizing against disorders and continuous perturbations. Recently, a new class of topological insulators (TIs) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-12 Haiyan Fan , Baizhan Xia , Shengjie Zheng , Liang Tong

Symmetry protected topological phases of one-dimensional spin systems have been classified using group cohomology. In this paper, we revisit this problem for general spin chains which are invariant under a continuous on-site symmetry group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-10 Kasper Duivenvoorden , Thomas Quella

We introduce a systematic construction of a gapless symmetry protected topological phase in one dimension by "decorating" the domain walls of Luttinger liquids. The resulting strongly interacting phases provide a concrete example of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Daniel E Parker , Thomas Scaffidi , Romain Vasseur

Topological protection in photonics offers new prospects for guiding and manipulating classical and quantum information. The mechanism of spin-orbit coupling promises the emergence of edge states that are helical; exhibiting unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-28 Nikhil Parappurath , Filippo Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers , Ewold Verhagen

We study a one-dimensional interacting topological model by means of exact diagonalization method. The topological properties are firstly examined with the existence of the edge states at half-filling. We find that the topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Huaiming Guo , Shun-Qing Shen

We show that a one dimensional ultra-cold Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interactions exhibits a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in spite of total number conservation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-09 Jonathan Ruhman , Ehud Altman

We analyze a tight-binding model of ultracold fermions loaded in an optical square lattice and subjected to a synthetic non-Abelian gauge potential featuring both a magnetic field and a translationally invariant SU(2) term. We consider in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-19 M. Burrello , I. C. Fulga , E. Alba , L. Lepori , A. Trombettoni

Recent work on Abelian topological phases with rotational symmetry has raised the question of whether rotational symmetry can protect gapless propagating edge modes. Here we address this issue by considering the coupling of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Sounak Sinha , Barry Bradlyn