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Geared as an invitation for undergraduates, beginning graduate students, we present a pedagogical introduction to one-dimensional topological phases -- in particular the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. In the process, we delve upon ideas of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anantha Hegde , Adarsh Kumar , Adhip Agarwala , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

In this paper, we review the basic concepts of topologically protected edge modes using the Su Schrieffer Heeger (SSH) model, originally introduced to describe electrical conductivity in doped polyacetylene polymer chains. We then propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 L. Q. English , A. Halchenko , F. Palmero

This paper experimentally investigates topologically protected edge modes in a water wave channel through a direct geometric mapping to the one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. By designing a periodic channel with alternating…

We investigate the edge states and the topological phase transitions in a class of tight binding lattices in one dimension where a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model exists in disguise. The unit cells of such lattices may have an arbitrarily…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-07 Subhajyoti Bid , Arunava Chakrabarti

Fock-state lattice (FSL) offers a powerful quantum simulator for topological phenomena due to the unbounded scalability and ease of implementation. Nevertheless, the unique topological properties induced by its site-dependent coupling have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Xing Yao Mi , Yong-Chun Liu , Zhi Jiao Deng , Chun Wang Wu , Ping Xing Chen

Topological insulators represent unique phases of matter with insulating bulk and conducting edge or surface states, immune to small perturbations such as backscattering due to disorder. This stems from their peculiar band structure, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Jérôme Cayssol , Balázs Dóra , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

We report an experimental study of the disordered Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, implemented in a system of coaxial cables, whose radio frequency properties map on to the SSH Hamiltonian. By measuring multiple chains with random hopping…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-21 D. M. Whittaker , Maxine M. McCarthy , Qingqing Duan

Non-Hermitian topological phenomena have gained much interest among physicists in recent years. In this paper, we expound on the physics of dissipatively coupled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattices, specifically in systems with bosonic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair , Marlan O. Scully , Girish S. Agarwal

The topological properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in the presence of nearest-neighbor interaction are investigated by means of a topological marker, generalized from a noninteracting one by utilizing the single-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-01 Pedro B. Melo , Sebastião A. S. Júnior , Wei Chen , Rubem Mondaini , Thereza Paiva

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, a prime example of a one-dimensional topologically nontrivial insulator, has been extensively studied in flat space-time. In recent times, many studies have been conducted to understand the properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Priyanuj Rajbongshi , Ranjan Modak

Topological insulator lie at the forefront of condensed matter physics. However strong disorder can destroy the topological states and make all states become localized. In this paper, we investigate the competition between topology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Xin Guan , Gang Chen

We propose an implementation of a generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model based on optomechanical arrays. The topological properties of the generalized SSH model depend on the effective optomechanical interactions enhanced by strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Xun-Wei Xu , Yan-Jun Zhao , Hui Wang , Ai-Xi Chen , Yu-xi Liu

Floquet topological insulators are topological phases of matter generated by the application of time-periodic perturbations on otherwise conventional insulators. We demonstrate that spatial variations in the time-periodic potential lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-02 Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan , Daniel Podolsky

We consider a driven, non-Hermitian generalization of the Aubry-Andre-Harper (AAH) model. We show that the introduction of periodic driving allows us to obtain fully real quasienergy spectra in configurations where the corresponding static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Elizabeth Noelle Blose

Floquet insulators are periodically driven quantum systems that can host novel topological phases as a function of the drive parameters. These new phases exhibit features reminiscent of fermion doubling in discrete-time lattice fermion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Thomas Iadecola , Srimoyee Sen , Lars Sivertsen

Topological edge states appear at the interface of topologically distinct two Hermitian insulators. We study the extension of this idea to non-Hermitian systems. We consider PT symmetric and topologically distinct non-Hermitian insulators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 C. Yuce

Topological insulators have been studied intensively over the last decades. Earlier research focused on Hermitian Hamiltonians, but recently, peculiar and interesting properties were found by introducing non-Hermiticity. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-29 Chao Chen Ye , W. L. Vleeshouwers , S. Heatley , V. Gritsev , C. Morais Smith

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model on two-dimensional square lattice exhibits a topological phase transition, which is related to the Zak phase determined by bulk band topology. The strong modulation of electron hopping causes nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Daichi Obana , Feng Liu , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains are the simplest model systems that display topological edge states. We calculate high-harmonic spectra of SSH chains that are coupled to an external laser field of a frequency much smaller than the band…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 Hannah Jürß , Dieter Bauer

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is the simplest example of a lattice with non-trivial topology. It supports mid-gap topologically protected states, whose energies are unaffected by disorder. We show that photonic multilayer structures…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-09 D. M. Whittaker , R. Ellis