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The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is central to band topology in condensed matter physics, which allows us to understand and design distinct topological states. In this work, we find another mechanism to analogize the SSH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Yuanjun Jin , XingYu Yue , Yong Xu , Xiang-Long Yu , Guoqing Chang

We construct a quasi-two-dimensional Su Schrieffer-Heeger model (SSH) like model and uncover a rich set of topological phases with nontrivial spin textures in the presence of complex hopping and spin orbit coupling. Despite its simple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Hemant K Sharma , Saptarshi Mandal , Kush Saha

We analyze the possible existence of topological phases in two-legged spin ladders considering a staggered interaction in both chains. When the staggered interaction in one chain is shifted by one site with respect to the other chain, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-18 Greta Ghelli , Giuseppe Magnifico , Cristian Degli Esposti Boschi , Elisa Ercolessi

We consider an extended trimer Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) tight-binding Hamiltonian keeping up to next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping terms and on-site potential energy. The Bloch Hamiltonian can be expressed in terms of all the eight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Sonu Verma , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Topological insulators exhibit boundary states protected by bulk band topology, a principle first established in quantum systems and later extended to classical waves, including phononics. Conventionally, an $n$-dimensional bulk with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Joel R. Pyfrom , Kai Sun , Jihong A. Ma

We present a detailed study of the fidelity, the entanglement entropy, and the entanglement spectrum, for a dimerized chain of spinless fermions---a simplified Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model---with open boundary conditions which is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-22 J. Sirker , M. Maiti , N. P. Konstantinidis , N. Sedlmayr

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

We investigate quantum transport and thermoelectrical properties of a finite-size Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, a paradigmatic model for a one-dimensional topological insulator, which displays topologically protected edge states. By coupling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-25 Sina Böhling , Georg Engelhardt , Gloria Platero , Gernot Schaller

We investigate string correlations in an infinite-size spin-1/2 bond-alternating Heisenberg chain. By employing the infinite matrix product state representation with the infinite time evolving block decimation method, a finite string…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hai Tao Wang , Bo Li , Sam Young Cho

Topological boundary states have attracted widespread fascination due to their series of intriguing properties. In this paper, we investigate the multiple boundary states within the two kinds of extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) models.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Shengqun Guo , Jinke Huang , Ruimin Huang , Fengjiang Zhuang , Zhili Lin , Weibin Qiu

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

We investigate the emergence of charge waves and their temporal dynamics in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) topological chains. Contrary to the conventional view that charge oscillations are suppressed in gapped topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Tomasz Kwapinski , Marcin Kurzyna , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

In this tutorial, we pedagogically review recent developments in the field of non-interacting fermionic phases of matter, focussing on the low energy description of higher-order topological insulators in terms of the Dirac equation. Our aim…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Frank Schindler

I consider a particle in the topologically non-trivial Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model interacting strongly with a mobile impurity, whose quantum dynamics is described by a topologically trivial Hamiltonian. A particle in the SSH model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-24 Manuel Valiente

A non-Hermitian topological insulator with real spectrum is interesting in the theory of non-Hermitian extension of topological systems. We find an experimentally realizable example of a two dimensional non-Hermitian topological insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 C. Yuce , H. Ramezani

Topology in quantum matter is typically associated with gapped phases. For example, in symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, the bulk energy gap localizes edge modes near the boundary. In this work we identify a new mechanism that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Ryan Thorngren , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruben Verresen

A dimerized fermion chain, described by Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, is a well-known example of 1D system with a non-trivial band topology. An interplay of disorder and topological ordering in the SSH model is of a great interest owing…

The realization of topological edge states (TESs) in photonic systems has provided unprecedented opportunities for manipulating light in novel manners. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model has recently gained significant attention and has…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-30 Yongkang Gong , Liang Guo , Stephan Wong , Anthony J. Bennett , Sang Soon Oh

We investigate the Loschmidt amplitude and dynamical quantum phase transitions in multiband one dimensional topological insulators. For this purpose we introduce a new solvable multiband model based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Tomasz Masłowski , Nicholas Sedlmayr

We investigate dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in both pure and mixed states within the extended SSH model framework, focusing on the SSH-3 and SSH-4 variants, which differ in symmetry properties. The SSH-3 model, characterized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Kaiyuan Cao , Tianren Zhang , Xiangping Jiang , Jian Wang