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Quantum walks constitute a versatile platform for simulating transport phenomena on discrete graphs including topological material properties while providing a high control over the relevant parameters at the same time. To experimentally…

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The interplay between unitary dynamics and quantum measurements induces diverse phenomena in open quantum systems with no counterparts in closed quantum systems at equilibrium. Here, we generally classify Kraus operators and their effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Zhenyu Xiao , Kohei Kawabata

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into fundamental science has opened new possibilities to address long-standing scientific challenges rooted in mathematical limitations. For example, topological invariants are used to…

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In topology, one averages over local geometrical details to reveal robust global features. This approach proves crucial for understanding quantized bulk transport and exotic boundary effects of linear wave propagation in (meta-)materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Greta Villa , Javier del Pino , Vincent Dumont , Gianluca Rastelli , Mateusz Michałek , Alexander Eichler , Oded Zilberberg

Topologically ordered phase has emerged as one of most exciting concepts that not only broadens our understanding of phases of matter, but also has been found to have potential application in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Zhihuang Luo , Chao Lei , Jun Li , Xinfang Nie , Zhaokai Li , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Previous studies have shown that the bulk topology of single-particle systems can be captured by the band inversion surface or by the spin inversion surface emerged on the time-averaged spin polarization. Most of the studies, however, are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-12 Rui Wu , Panpan Fang , Chen Sun , Fuxiang Li

Dynamical phase transitions (DPT) are characterized by nonanalytical time evolution of the dynamical free energy. For general 2-band systems in one and two dimensions (eg. SSH model, Kitaev-chain, Haldane model, p+ip superconductor, etc.),…

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Electronic topological phases of matter, characterized by robust boundary states derived from topologically nontrivial bulk states, are pivotal for next-generation electronic devices. However, understanding their complex quantum phases,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Xiang Li , Yixiao Chen , Bohao Li , Haoxiang Chen , Fengcheng Wu , Ji Chen , Weiluo Ren

Competition among repetitive measurements of noncommuting observables and unitary dynamics can give rise to a wide variety of entanglement phases. Here, we propose a general framework based on Lyapunov analysis to characterize topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Hisanori Oshima , Ken Mochizuki , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Yohei Fuji

The discovery of topological phases in condensed matter systems has changed the modern conception of phases of matter. The global nature of topological ordering makes these phases robust and hence promising for applications. However, the…

Higher-order topological phase transitions (HOTPTs) are associated with closing either the bulk energy gap (type-I) or boundary energy gap (type-II) without changing symmetry, and conventionally the both transitions are captured in real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Wei Jia , Xin-Chi Zhou , Lin Zhang , Long Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices and quantum information technology. One of the hallmarks…

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Topology is being widely adopted to understand and to categorize quantum matter in modern physics. The nexus of topology orders, which engenders distinct quantum phases with benefits to both fundamental research and practical applications…

Topological phases of matter have sparked an immense amount of activity in recent decades. Topological materials are classified by topological invariants that act as a non-local order parameter for any symmetry and condition. As a result,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-08 Oded Zilberberg

The study of phase transitions using data-driven approaches is challenging, especially when little prior knowledge of the system is available. Topological data analysis is an emerging framework for characterizing the shape of data and has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Quoc Hoan Tran , Mark Chen , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The recently discovered three dimensional or bulk topological insulators are expected to exhibit exotic quantum phenomena. It is believed that a trivial insulator can be twisted into a topological state by modulating the spin-orbit…

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Meaningful topological invariants for mixed quantum states are challenging to identify as there is no unique way to define them, and most choices do not directly relate to physical observables. Here, we propose a simple pragmatic approach…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-13 Charles-Edouard Bardyn

Although topological band theory has been used to discover and classify a wide array of novel topological phases in insulating and semi-metal systems, it is not well-suited to identifying topological phenomena in metallic or gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Alexander Cerjan , Terry A. Loring

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part (arXiv:2501.15657), we discused…

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