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Nonlinear Thouless pumping has been established in periodic lattices; its counterpart in quasiperiodic lattices remains unexplored. Here, we show a nonlinear topological pumping of gap solitons in quasiperiodic lattices where the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Xiao-Xiao Hu , Dun Zhao , Hong-Gang Luo

Certain band insulators allow for the adiabatic pumping of quantized charge or spin for special time-dependences of the Hamiltonian. These "topological pumps" are closely related to two dimensional topological insulating phases of matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Dganit Meidan , Tobias Micklitz , Piet W. Brouwer

Pumping of electrons through nano-scale devices is one of the fascinating achievements in the field of nano-science with a wide range of applications. To optimize the performance of pumps, operating them at high frequencies is mandatory. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann

Understanding the fundamental constraint on work far beyond the adiabatic regime is crucial to investigating fast and efficient energy extraction or consumption processes. In this study, we derive thermodynamic speed limits for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Aoi Yamauchi , Rihito Nagase , Kaixin Li , Takahiro Sagawa , Ken Funo

The adiabatic topological pumping is proposed by periodically modulating a semiconductor nanowire double-quantum-dot chain. We demonstrate that the quantized charge transport can be achieved by a nontrivial modulation of the quantum-dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. Xu

We investigate both pure and mixed states Floquet dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) in the periodically time-dependent extended XY model. We exactly show that the proposed Floquet Hamiltonian of interacting spins can be expressed as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-03 Sara Zamani , R. Jafari , A. Langari

In this work we derive a general formula for the charge pumped in a superconducting nanocircuit. Our expression generalizes previous results in several ways, it is applicable both in the adiabatic and in the non-adiabatic regimes and it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Angelo Russomanno , Stefano Pugnetti , Valentina Brosco , Rosario Fazio

We study the approach to the adiabatic limit in periodically driven systems. Specifically focusing on a spin-1/2 in a magnetic field we find that, when the parameters of the Hamiltonian lead to a quasi-degeneracy in the Floquet spectrum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Angelo Russomanno , Giuseppe E. Santoro

The interplay between nonlinear and topological physics has led to intriguing emergent phenomena, such as quantized and fractionally quantized Thouless pumping of solitons dictated by the topological invariants of the underlying band…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ankitkumar Maisuriya , Siddhi Mali , Sunil Mittal

Non-Abelian topological phases, which go beyond traditional Abelian topological band theory, are garnering increasing attention. This is further spurred by periodic driving, leading to predictions of many novel multi-gap Floquet topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Huahui Qiu , Shuaishuai Tong , Qicheng Zhang , Kun Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

We present a field theoretic treatment of an adiabatic quantum motor. We explicitly discuss a motor termed Thouless motor which is based on a Thouless pump operating in reverse. When a sliding periodic potential is considered as the motor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Anton Bruch , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

We study topological charge pumping (TCP) in the Rice-Mele (RM) model with irreciprocal hopping. The non-Hermiticity gives rise to interesting pumping physics, owing to the presence of skin effect and exceptional points. In the static 1D RM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Abhishek Kumar , Sarbajit Mazumdar , S D Mahanti , Kush Saha

We investigate the influence of the Coulomb interaction on the adiabatic pumping current through quantum dots. Using nonequilibrium Green's functions techniques, we derive a general expression for the current based on the instantaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-16 A. R. Hernández , F. A. Pinheiro , C. H. Lewenkopf , E. R. Mucciolo

Thouless pumping is a fundamental phenomenon recognized as being widespread across various areas of physics, with optics holding a particularly prominent role. Here, we study this effect for optical solitons in a medium where the refractive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-09 Fangwei Ye , Aidar H. Ryazhapov , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop

Adiabatic quantum pumping in noninteracting, phase coherent quantum dots is elegantly described by Brouwer's formula. Interactions within the dot, while suppressing phase coherence, make Brouwer's formalism inapplicable. In this paper, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Davide Fioretto , Alessandro Silva

Adiabatic transformation can be approximated as alternating unitary operators of a Hamiltonian and its parameter derivative as proposed in a gate-based approach to counterdiabatic driving (van Vreumingen, arXiv:2406.08064). In this paper,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Takuya Hatomura

Thouless pumps are topologically nontrivial states of matter with quantized charge transport, which can be realized in atomic gases loaded into an optical lattice. This topological state is analogous to the quantum Hall state. However,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-04 Pasquale Marra , Muneto Nitta

Pumping of charge in phase-coherent mesoscopic systems due to the out-of-phase modulation of two parameters has recently found considerable interest. We investigate the effect of inelastic processes on the adiabatically pumped current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

We investigate the effects of non-Hermiticity on topological pumping, and uncover a connection between a topological edge invariant based on topological pumping and the winding numbers of exceptional points. In Hermitian lattices, it is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Wenchao Hu , Hailong Wang , Perry Ping Shum , Y. D. Chong

Alkaline-earth(-like) ultracold atoms, trapped in optical lattices and in the presence of an external gauge field, can stabilise Mott insulating phases characterised by density and magnetic order. We show that this property can be used to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-14 Luca Taddia , Eyal Cornfeld , Davide Rossini , Leonardo Mazza , Eran Sela , Rosario Fazio