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Plasmonic many-particle systems with precisely tuned resonances and coupling strengths can exhibit emergent collective properties governed by universal principles. In one-dimensional chains with alternating couplings, known as…

We study the parity- and time-reversal PT symmetric non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with two conjugated imaginary potentials $\pm i\gamma $ at two end sites. The SSH model is known as one of the simplest two-band topological…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-11 Baogang Zhu , Rong Lu , Shu Chen

We study the disconnected entanglement entropy, $S^D$, of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. $S^D$ is a combination of both connected and disconnected bipartite entanglement entropies that removes all area and volume law contributions, and is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-18 Tommaso Micallo , Vittorio Vitale , Marcello Dalmonte , Pierre Fromholz

We construct a family of chiral symmetry-protected third-order topological insulators by stacking Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains and provide a unified topological characterization by a series of Bott indices. Our approach is informed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Xun-Jiang Luo , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao , Fengcheng Wu

We study an adiabatic topological passage of two Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains mediated by a giant atom. When two finite SSH chains are in the topological phase and the frequency of the giant atom is equal to the center frequency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Da-Wei Wang , Ling Zhou , Yu-xi Liu

We simulate the the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions constructed, in a single atom, from a ladder of six neighboring $n\:^3S_1$ Rydberg states in which adjacent states are coupled with two-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Yi Lu , Chuanyu Wang , Soumya K. Kanungo , F. Barry Dunning , Thomas C. Killian

Working in the context of the Su-Schreiffer-Heeger (SSH) model, the effect of topological transitions on the structure and properties of bulk position-space wavefunctions is studied for a particle undergoing a quantum walk in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-31 David S. Simon , Shuto Osawa , Alexander V. Sergienko

Topological insulators have inspired the study with various quantum simulators. Exploiting the tunability of the qubit frequency and qubit-qubit coupling, we show that a superconducting qubit chain can simulate various topological band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Xiu Gu , Shu Chen , Yu-xi Liu

We investigate a variant of the SSH model consisting of an SSH chain with an embedded Aharonov-Bohm quantum ring. The embedded ring gives rise to domain wall states whose energy levels are in the band gap. The dependence of some of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-08 A. P. Garrido , A. R. Plastino , M. L. Ladrón de Guevara , V. M. Apel

A particle-hole symmetry protected 2D non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is investigated. This version differs from the usual Hermitian version by the inclusion of gain and/or loss terms which are represented by complex on-site…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Udai Prakash Tyagi , Partha Goswami

Quantum state transmission in spin chains is a fundamental problem within quantum technologies. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, first introduced in the context of polyacetylene, provides a paradigmatic example of a system exhibiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Lautaro Moragues , Diego Acosta Coden , Omar Osenda , Alejandro Ferrón

We demonstrate dynamical topological phase transitions in evolving Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattices made of interacting soliton arrays, which are entirely driven by nonlinearity and thereby exemplify emergent nonlinear topological…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-05-17 Domenico Bongiovanni , Dario Jukić , Zhichan Hu , Frane Lunić , Yi Hu , Daohong Song , Roberto Morandotti , Zhigang Chen , Hrvoje Buljan

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which captures the most striking transport properties of the conductive organic polymer $trans$-polyacetylene, provides perhaps the most basic model system supporting topological excitations. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-12 Eric J. Meier , Fangzhao Alex An , Bryce Gadway

Topological insulator lie at the forefront of condensed matter physics. However strong disorder can destroy the topological states and make all states become localized. In this paper, we investigate the competition between topology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Xin Guan , Gang Chen

The discrete Hamiltonian of Su, Schrieffer and Heeger (SSH) is a well-known one-dimensional translation-invariant model in condensed matter physics. The model consists of two atoms per unit cell and describes in-cell and out-of-cell…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a tight-binding one-dimensional (1D) lattice with alternating nearest-neighbor amplitudes. Despite its mathematically simple and physically intuitive structure, the SSH model is capable of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Raditya Weda Bomantara

We study the topological phase transition in a two-leg Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) ladder by redefining the unit-cell structure. For both identical hopping dimerization pattern (uniform) and alternate hopping dimerization pattern (staggered)…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Anish Kuanr , Rajashri Parida , Saralasrita Mohanty , Tapan Mishra

We investigate the physics of one-dimensional symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases protected by symmetries whose symmetry generators exhibit spatial modulation. We focus in particular on phases protected by symmetries with linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-20 Jung Hoon Han , Ethan Lake , Ho Tat Lam , Ruben Verresen , Yizhi You

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is fundamental in topological insulators and relevant to understanding higher-order topological phases. This study explores the relationship between the $n$-dimensional SSH model and its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-29 Feng Liu

It is shown that quantum walks on one-dimensional arrays of special linear-optical units allow the simulation of discrete-time Hamiltonian systems with distinct topological phases. In particular, a slightly modified version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 David S. Simon , Casey A. Fitzpatrick , Shuto Osawa , Alexander V. Sergienko