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The question of whether the topological insulators can host a stable nontrivial phase in the presence of spatially correlated disorder is a fundamental question of interest. Based on theoretical investigations, we analyze the effect of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-11 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Dawei Kang

Stochastic processes are commonly used models to describe dynamics of a wide variety of nonequilibrium phenomena ranging from electrical transport to biological motion. The transition matrix describing a stochastic process can be regarded…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-02 Taro Sawada , Kazuki Sone , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

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

Topological matter exhibits exotic properties yet phases characterized by large topological invariants are difficult to implement, despite rapid experimental progress. A promising route toward higher topological invariants is via engineered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Lei Xiao , Xingze Qiu , Kunkun Wang , Zhihao Bian , Xiang Zhan , Hideaki Obuse , Barry C. Sanders , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

We study the typical behavior of random walkers on the microcanonical configuration space of mean-field disordered systems. Passive walks have an ergodicity-breaking transition at precisely the energy density associated with the dynamical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-03 Jaron Kent-Dobias

We study continuous-time (variable speed) random walks in random environments on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\ge2$, where, at time $t$, the walk at $x$ jumps across edge $(x,y)$ at time-dependent rate $a_t(x,y)$. The rates, which we assume stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Marek Biskup , Pierre-François Rodriguez

We study topological properties of phase transition points of one-dimensional topological quantum phase transitions by assigning winding numbers defined on closed circles around the gap closing points in the parameter space of momentum and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-22 Linhu Li , Chao Yang , Shu Chen

We study a simple run-and-tumble random walk whose switching frequency from run mode to tumble mode and the reverse depend on a stochastic signal. We consider a particularly sharp, step-like dependence, where the run to tumble switching…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-09 Subrata Dev , Sakuntala Chatterjee

In the study of dynamical processes on networks, there has been intense focus on network structure -- i.e., the arrangement of edges and their associated weights -- but the effects of the temporal patterns of edges remains poorly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-16 Till Hoffmann , Mason A. Porter , Renaud Lambiotte

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 Takuya Kitagawa

We present a probabilistic theory of random walks in turbid media with non-scattering regions. It is shown that important characteristics such as diffusion constants, average step lengths, crossing statistics and void spacings can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-18 Tomas Svensson , Kevin Vynck , Marco Grisi , Romolo Savo , Matteo Burresi , Diederik S. Wiersma

When confined to a topological environment consisting of a cycle coupled with a half-line, quantum walks exhibit long-term statistical tendencies which differ dramatically from the tendencies of classical random walks in the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-08 Forrest Ingram-Johnson , Chaobin Liu , Nelson Petulante

Topological phase transitions track changes in topological properties of a system and occur in real materials as well as quantum engineered systems, all of which differ greatly in terms of dimensionality, symmetries, interactions, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-02 Paolo Molignini , R. Chitra , Wei Chen

Quantum topology categorizes physical systems in integer invariants, which are robust to some deformations and certain types of disorder. A prime example is the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which has two distinct topological phases,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-01 Michael Hilke

We report the first realization of a fractional topological phase in a fully unitary, noninteracting discrete-time quantum walk implemented on finite cyclic graphs. Using a single-coin split-step cyclic quantum walk (SCSS-CQW), we uncover…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Dinesh Kumar Panda , Colin Benjamin

Periodically-driven quantum systems can exhibit topologically non-trivial behaviour, even when their quasi-energy bands have zero Chern numbers. Much work has been conducted on non-interacting quantum-mechanical models where this kind of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-03 Callum W. Duncan , Patrik Ohberg , Manuel Valiente

Random flux is commonly believed to be incapable of driving full metal-insulator transitions in non-interacting systems. Here we show that random flux can after all induce a full metal-band insulator transition in the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Chang-An Li , Song-Bo Zhang , Jan Carl Budich , Björn Trauzettel

The time evolution of a topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain is analyzed through the statistics of speckle patterns. The emergence of topological edge states dramatically affects the dynamical fluctuations of the wavefunction. The…

We numerically investigate the characteristics of the long-time dynamics of a single-site wave-packet excitation in a disordered and nonlinear Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. In the linear regime, as the parameters controlling the topology of…

In this work, we present a theory for topological phases for quantum systems on tree graphs. Conventionally, topological phases of matter have been studied in regular lattices, but also in quasicrystals and amorphous settings. We consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Alex Westström , Wenbu Duan , Kangpei Yao , Xiaonan Wang , Jie Liu , Jian Li