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Recently, anomalous Floquet topological phases without static counterparts have been observed in different systems, where periodically driven models are realized to support a winding number of 1 and a pair of edge modes in each quasienergy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-20 Kaiye Shi , Xiang Zhang , Wei Zhang

In this work we study the geometrical and topological properties of non-equilibrium quantum systems driven by ac fields. We consider two tunnel coupled spin qubits driven by either spatially homogeneous or inhomogeneous ac fields. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

Time-periodic driving of a quantum system can enable new dynamical topological phases of matter that could not exist in thermal equilibrium. We investigate two related classes of dynamical topological phenomena in 2D systems: Floquet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 Andrew C. Potter , Takahiro Morimoto

We consider the nonadiabatic energy fluctuations of a many-body system in a time-dependent harmonic trap. In the presence of scale-invariance, the dynamics becomes self-similar and the nondiabatic energy fluctuations can be found in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Mathieu Beau , Adolfo del Campo

We analyze theoretically adiabatic quantum pumping through a normal conductor that couples the normal regions of two superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junctions. By using the phases of the superconducting order parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Russo , J. Tobiska , T. M. Klapwijk , A. F. Morpurgo

Topological phases of matter are known to be unstable against strong onsite disorder in one dimension. In this work, however, we propose that in the case of a topological ladder, an onsite quasiperiodic disorder under proper conditions,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-02 Sanchayan Banerjee , Rajashri Parida , Tapan Mishra

We study soliton Thouless pumping in an extended diagonal Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model with on-site nonlinearities and inter-site nonlinearities. We show that the inter-site nonlinearities can make solitons acquire anomalous transport…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-06 Tao Jiang , Li-Chen Zhao

Floquet engineering offers an unparalleled platform for realizing novel non-equilibrium topological phases. However, the unique structure of Floquet systems, which includes multiple quasienergy gaps, poses a significant challenge to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Chen-Yang Wang , Jing-Ping Xu , Ce Wang , Ya-Ping Yang

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

Recent studies indicated that helical organic molecules, such as DNA and $\alpha$-helical protein, can behave as Thouless quantum pumps when a rotating electric field is applied perpendicularly to their helical axes. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ai-Min Guo , Pei-Jia Hu , Xiao-Hui Gao , Tie-Feng Fang , Qing-Feng Sun

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

Thouless pumping with nontrivial topological phases provides a powerful means for the manipulation of matter waves in one-dimensional lattice systems. The band topology is revealed by the quantization of pumped charge. In the context of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-30 Yan-Jue Lv , Yang Peng , Yong-Kai Liu , Yi Zheng

High-order topological phases of matter refer to the systems of $n$-dimensional bulk with the topology of $m$-th order, exhibiting $(n-m)$-dimensional boundary modes and can be characterized by topological pumping. Here, we experimentally…

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

We investigate a mechanism to transiently stabilize topological phenomena in long-lived quasi-steady states of isolated quantum many-body systems driven at low frequencies. We obtain an analytical bound for the lifetime of the quasi-steady…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-29 Tobias Gulden , Erez Berg , Mark S. Rudner , Netanel H. Lindner

Topological quantum pumps are topologically equivalent to the quantum Hall state: In these systems, the charge pumped during each pumping cycle is quantized and coincides with the Chern invariant. However, differently from quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro

Symmetry protected topological order in one dimension leads to protected degeneracies between symmetry blocks of the reduced density matrix. In the presence of periodic driving, topological Floquet phases can be identified in terms of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Daniel Azses , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre , Eran Sela

Utilizing synthetic dimensions generated by spatial or temporal modulation, topological pumping enables the exploration of higher-dimensional topological phenomena through lower-dimensional physical systems. In this letter, we propose a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-24 Xianggui Ding , Zongliang Du , Jiachen Luo , Hui Chen , Zhenqun Guan , Xu Guo

We investigate the effects of random onsite disorder on higher-order Thouless pumping of noninteracting fermionic Benalcazar-Bernevig-Hughes (BBH) model. The interplay of disorderinduced topological phase transition and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 Congwei Lu , Zhao-Fan Cai , Haibo Wang , Qing Ai , Tao Liu

We demonstrate the existence of a conceptually distinct topological pumping phenomenon in one-dimensional chains undergoing topological adiabatic cycles. Specifically, for a stack of two semi-infinite chains cycled in opposite directions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-03 Bryan Leung , Emil Prodan