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The bulk-boundary correspondence guarantees topologically protected edge states in a two-dimensional topological superconductor. Unlike in topological insulators, these edge states are, however, not connected to a quantized (spin) current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-07 Maximilian F. Holst , Manfred Sigrist , Mark H. Fischer

Topological phases play a crucial role in the fundamental physics of light-matter interaction and emerging applications of quantum technologies. However, the topological band theory of waveguide QED systems is known to break down, because…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-08 Yongguan Ke , Jiaxuan Huang , Wenjie Liu , Yuri Kivshar , Chaohong Lee

Frames, or lattices consisting of mass points connected by rigid bonds or central force springs, are important model constructs that have applications in such diverse fields as structural engineering, architecture, and materials science.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 C. L. Kane , T. C. Lubensky

In this work, we explore how the geometry and topology of the underlying manifold shape the synchronization phase transition of a system. To do so, we extend the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model from spheres to compact, connected, orientable, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Yang Tian

The long-range interaction can fundamentally alter properties in gapped topological phases such as emergent massive edge modes. However, recent research has shifted attention to topological nontrivial critical points or phases, and it is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-16 Wen-Hao Zhong , Wei-Lin Li , Yong-Chang Chen , Xue-Jia Yu

The existence of topologically protected edge modes is often cited as a highly desirable trait of topological insulators. However, these edge states are not always present. A realistic physical treatment of long range hopping in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Simon R. Pocock , Paloma A. Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

Harnessing topological phases with their dissipationless edge-channels coupled with the effective engineering of quantum phase transitions is a spinal aspect of topological electronics. The accompanying symmetry protection leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Siddhant Midha , Koustav Jana , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

The low energy sector of 2D and 3D topological insulators (TIs) exhibits propagating edge states, which has speculated the existence of equilibrium edge currents or edge spin currents. We demonstrate that if the low energy sector of TIs is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Wei Chen

The moduli space of gapped Hamiltonians that are in the same topological phase is an intrinsic object that is associated to the topological order. The topology of these moduli spaces is used recently in the construction of Floquet codes. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-11 Po-Shen Hsin , Zhenghan Wang

We numerically investigate and experimentally demonstrate an in-situ topological band transition in a highly tunable mechanical system made of cylindrical granular particles. This system allows us to tune its inter-particle stiffness in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-07-19 Rajesh Chaunsali , Aman Thakkar , Eunho Kim , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Jinkyu Yang

Topological phases have recently witnessed a rapid progress in non-Hermitian systems. Here we study a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model with imaginary periodic or quasiperiodic modulations. We demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Qi-Bo Zeng , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

We characterize gapless edge modes in translation invariant topological insulators. We show that the edge mode spectrum is a continuous deformation of the spectrum of a certain gluing function defining the occupied state bundle over the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Lukasz Fidkowski , T. S. Jackson , Israel Klich

We establish the existence of a topological classification of many-particle quantum systems undergoing unitary time evolution. The classification naturally inherits phenomenology familiar from equilibrium -- it is robust against disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-26 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper

Chiral edge states can transmit energy along imperfect interfaces in a topologically robust and unidirectional manner when protected by bulk-boundary correspondence. However, in continuum systems, the number of states at an interface can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-14 Guido Baardink , Gino Cassella , Luke Neville , Paul A. Milewski , Anton Souslov

Despite great successes in the study of gapped phases, a comprehensive understanding of the gapless phases and their transitions is still under developments. In this paper, we study a general phenomenon in the space of (1+1)$d$ critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-28 Wenjie Ji , Shu-Heng Shao , Xiao-Gang Wen

In this paper we report that notions of topological protection can be applied to stationary configurations that are driven far from equilibrium by active, dissipative processes. We show this for physically two disparate cases : stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-08 Kinjal Dasbiswas , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Topology is a fundamental aspect of quantum physics, and it has led to key breakthroughs and results in various fields of quantum materials. In condensed matters, this has culminated in the recent discovery of symmetry-protected topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Baokai Wang , Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Tzen Ong , Hsin Lin

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of a two dimensional square lattice loaded by spinless fermions, with nearest neighbor hopping and algebraically decaying pairing. We find that for sufficiently long-range pairing, new phases, not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 L. Lepori , D. Giuliano , S. Paganelli

We prove a general theorem on the relation between the bulk topological quantum number and the edge states in two dimensional insulators. It is shown that whenever there is a topological order in bulk, characterized by a non-vanishing Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Liang Qi , Yong-Shi Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological phases feature robust edge states that are protected against the effects of defects and disorder. The robustness of these states presents opportunities to design technologies that are tolerant to fabrication errors and resilient…