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We study topological properties of one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems without chiral symmetry and give phase diagrams characterized by topological invariants $\nu_E$ and $\nu_{total}$, associated with complex energy vorticity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Hui Jiang , Chao Yang , Shu Chen

When translational symmetry is broken by bulk disorder, the topological nature of states in topological crystalline systems may change depending on the type of disorder that is applied. In this work, we characterize the phases of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-01 Saavanth Velury , Barry Bradlyn , Taylor L. Hughes

We show that the dimension of spacetime becomes complex-valued when its short-scale geometry is invariant under a discrete scaling symmetry. This characteristic can generically arise in quantum gravities, for instance, in those based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-15 Gianluca Calcagni

The engineering of synthetic materials characterised by more than one class of topological invariants is one of the current challenges of solid-state based and synthetic materials. Using a synthetic photonic lattice implemented in a…

We introduce the notion of topological electronic states on random lattices in non-integer dimensions. By considering a class $D$ model on critical percolation clusters embedded in two dimensions, we demonstrate that these topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Moein N. Ivaki , Isac Sahlberg , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

We show that it is possible to have a topological phase in two-dimensional quasicrystals without any magnetic field applied, but instead introducing an artificial gauge field via dynamic modulation. This topological quasicrystal exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Miguel A. Bandres , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Mordechai Segev

We define a new $Z_2$-valued index to characterize the topological properties of periodically driven two dimensional crystals when the time-reversal symmetry is enforced. This index is associated with a spectral gap of the evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 David Carpentier , Pierre Delplace , Michel Fruchart , Krzysztof Gawędzki

The topological orders in amorphous systems that lack crystalline symmetry have gained considerable attention recently. Here we propose the Floquet amorphous topological matter, among which the topological orders are explored in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Peng He , Jing-Xin Liu , Hong Wu , Z. D. Wang

We investigate topological phases induced by a driven electric field coupled to a dimer chain (a model for poly-acetylene) at high frequency regime. It is shown how the topological invariant of the system can be controlled by the field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Fatemeh Askari Shahid , Hosein Cheraghchi

Recent years have seen a strong interest in topological effects within periodically driven systems. In this work, we explore topological effects in two closely related 2-dimensional driven systems described by Floquet operators possessing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Derek Y. H. Ho , Jiangbin Gong

Two-dimensional arrays of periodically driven qubits can host inherently dynamical topological phases with anomalous chiral edge dynamics. These chiral Floquet phases are formally characterized by a dynamical topological invariant, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Blake R. Duschatko , Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Andrew C. Potter

Using the Floquet Hamiltonian derived based on the time-dependent perturbation theory, we investigated the quasienergy bands of a one-dimensional time-Floquet photonic crystal. The time-Floquet photonic crystal contains two alternating…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-17 Neng Wang , Guo Ping Wang

One-dimensional crystals serve as a versatile platform for engineering nontrivial states, which can be easily explored in transport configurations. In this work, we analyze the properties of a periodic structure composed of an H-shaped unit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Sofía Pinto , P. A. Orellana , Sergio Bravo

The existence of non-continuous invariant graphs (or strange non-chaotic attractors) in quasiperiodically forced systems has generated great interest, but there are still very few rigorous results about the properties of these objects. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Jaeger

Recently the creation of novel topological states of matter by a periodic driving field has attracted great attention. To motivate further experimental and theoretical studies, we investigate interesting aspects of Floquet bands and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Longwen Zhou , Hailong Wang , Derek Y. H. Ho , Jiangbin Gong

Periodically driven, or Floquet, disordered quantum systems have generated many unexpected discoveries of late, such as the anomalous Floquet Anderson insulator and the discrete time crystal. Here, we report the emergence of an entire band…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-05-22 Sthitadhi Roy , Ivan M. Khaymovich , Arnab Das , Roderich Moessner

By studying various rational integrable maps on $\mathbf{\hat C}^d$ with $p$ invariants, we show that periodic points form an invariant variety of dimension $\ge p$ for each period, in contrast to the case of nonintegrable maps in which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Satoru Saito , Noriko Saitoh

The topological properties of a material depend on its symmetries, parameters, and spatial dimension. Changes in these properties due to parameter and symmetry variations can be understood by computing the corresponding topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

Topological phases of matter have sparked an immense amount of activity in recent decades. Topological materials are classified by topological invariants that act as a non-local order parameter for any symmetry and condition. As a result,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-08 Oded Zilberberg

Topological invariants govern many important physical properties in condensed matter systems. In this work, we obtain the complete set of topological invariants for a family of one-dimensional quasicrystals. The first and best-studied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Anuradha Jagannathan