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We consider a two-dimensional system initialized in a topologically trivial state before its Hamiltonian is ramped through a phase transition into a Chern insulator regime. This scenario is motivated by current experiments with ultracold…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-21 Ying Hu , Peter Zoller , Jan Carl Budich

We investigate the dynamical characterization theory for periodically driven systems in which Floquet topology can be fully detected by emergent topological patterns of quench dynamics in momentum subspaces called band-inversion surfaces.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-02-02 Bei-Bei Wang , Long Zhang

We study the topological properties of one dimensional systems undergoing unitary time evolution. We show that symmetries possessed both by the initial wavefunction and by the Hamiltonian at all times may not be present in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper

Different topological phases of quantum systems has become areas of increased focus in recent decades. In particular, the question of how to realize and manipulate systems with non-trivial first Chern number is pursued both experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 A. Alnor , T. Bækkegaard , N. T. Zinner

The accurate determination of non-Hermitian (NH) topological invariants plays a central role in the study of NH topological phases. In this work, we propose a general framework for directly measuring NH topological invariants in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-16 Xiao-Dong Lin , Long Zhang

The dynamics of a two-qubit system is considered with the aim of a general categorization of the different ways in which entanglement can disappear in the course of the evolution, e.g., entanglement sudden death. The dynamics is described…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Dong Zhou , Gia-Wei Chern , Jianjia Fei , Robert Joynt

We propose a generic scheme to characterize topological phases via detecting topological charges by quench dynamics. A topological charge is defined as the chirality of a monopole at Dirac or Weyl point of spin-orbit field, and topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-10 Long Zhang , Lin Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Many-body topological quantum states host exotic quantum phenomena and lie at the forefront of developing next-generation quantum technologies. Recently emerged neural network wavefunction methods have established themselves as a powerful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Haoxiang Chen , Yubing Qian , Weiluo Ren , Xiang Li , Ji Chen

It is still an outstanding challenge to characterize and understand the topological features of strongly interacting states such as bound-states in interacting quantum systems. Here, by introducing a cotranslational symmetry in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-17 Xizhou Qin , Feng Mei , Yongguan Ke , Li Zhang , Chaohong Lee

Non-Hermitian quantum systems can exhibit unique observables characterizing topologically protected transport in the presence of decay. The topological protection arises from winding numbers associated with non-decaying dark states, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Mark S. Rudner , Michael Levin , Leonid S. Levitov

Recently, dynamical characterization of bulk topology has been experimentally realized under nonadiabatic sudden quench dynamics. However, it has been shown that only the topology of final phase can be characterized when the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Panpan Fang , Xinwei Shi , Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

The study of quantum quenches in integrable systems has significantly advanced with the introduction of the Quench Action method, a versatile analytical approach to non-equilibrium dynamics. However, its application is limited to those…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 Lorenzo Piroli , Eric Vernier , Pasquale Calabrese

Topological phases with large Chern numbers have important implications. They were previously predicted to exist by considering fabricated long-range interactions or multi-layered materials. Stimulated by recent wide interests in Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 Tian-Shi Xiong , Jiangbin Gong , Jun-Hong An

Topological properties lie at the heart of many fascinating phenomena in solid state systems such as quantum Hall systems or Chern insulators. The topology can be captured by the distribution of Berry curvature, which describes the geometry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-31 N. Fläschner , B. S. Rem , M. Tarnowski , D. Vogel , D. -S. Lühmann , K. Sengstock , C. Weitenberg

Crystalline symmetries give rise to topological invariants that can distinguish quantum phases of matter. Understanding these in strongly interacting systems is an ongoing research direction requiring non-perturbative methods. Recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Naren Manjunath , Maissam Barkeshli

A quantum phase transition is usually achieved by tuning physical parameters in a Hamiltonian at zero temperature. Here, we demonstrate that the ground state of a topological phase itself encodes critical properties of its transition to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-10 Timothy H. Hsieh , Liang Fu

We study the dynamical process of equilibration of topological properties in quantum many-body systems undergoing a parameter quench between two topologically inequivalent Hamiltonians. This scenario is motivated by recent experiments on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-26 Andreas Kruckenhauser , Jan Carl Budich

The discovery of topological features of quantum states plays an important role in modern condensed matter physics and various artificial systems. Due to the absence of local order parameters, the detection of topological quantum phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Topology has emerged as a fundamental property of many systems, manifesting in cosmology, condensed matter, high-energy physics and waves. Despite the rich textures, the topology has largely been limited to low dimensional systems that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Robert de Mello Koch , Pedro Ornelas , Neelan Gounden , Bo-Qiang Lu , Isaac Nape , Andrew Forbes

The coupling between two or more objects can generally be categorized as strong or weak. In cavity quantum electrodynamics for example, when the coupling strength is larger than the loss rate the coupling is termed strong, and otherwise it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 C. A. Downing , A. J. Toghill