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We construct a quasi-two-dimensional Su Schrieffer-Heeger model (SSH) like model and uncover a rich set of topological phases with nontrivial spin textures in the presence of complex hopping and spin orbit coupling. Despite its simple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Hemant K Sharma , Saptarshi Mandal , Kush Saha

An incident wave at a temporal interface, created by an abrupt change in system parameters, generates time-refracted and time-reflected waves. We find topological characteristics associated with the temporal interface that separates…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-25 Huisheng Xu , Zhaohui Dong , Luqi Yuan , Liang Jin

In this work, we investigate some aspects of an acoustic analogue of the two-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. The system is composed of alternating cross-section tubes connected in a square network, which in the limit of narrow tubes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Antonin Coutant , Vassos Achilleos , Olivier Richoux , Georgios Theocharis , Vincent Pagneux

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of finite Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains in thermal equilibrium at fixed temperature and chemical potential. Using the canonical and grand canonical ensembles, we calculate the energy density,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Carlos Magno da Conceição , Julio César Pérez-Pedraza , Alfredo Raya , Cristian Villavicencio

Simple route of engineering topological phases for any desired value of winding and Chern numbers is found in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model by adding a further neighbor hopping term of varying distances. It is known that the standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Rakesh Kumar Malakar , Asim Kumar Ghosh

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) undermines the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) since it results in a distinct bulk spectrum in open-boundary systems compared to the periodic counterpart. Using the non-Hermitian (NH)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Yi-Xin Xiao , Zhao-Qing Zhang , C. T. Chan

Flat, non-dispersive bands and topological phase transition in multiple Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains, cross-linked via periodically arranged nodal points are explored within a tight binding framework. We give analytic prescription,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Sauvik Chatterjee , Sougata Biswas , and Arunava Chakrabarti

Quantum state transmission in spin chains is a fundamental problem within quantum technologies. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, first introduced in the context of polyacetylene, provides a paradigmatic example of a system exhibiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Lautaro Moragues , Diego Acosta Coden , Omar Osenda , Alejandro Ferrón

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is fundamental in topological insulators and relevant to understanding higher-order topological phases. This study explores the relationship between the $n$-dimensional SSH model and its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-29 Feng Liu

Charge-density waves are responsible for symmetry-breaking displacements of atoms and concomitant changes in the electronic structure. Linear response theories, in particular density-functional perturbation theory, provide a way to study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-27 Arne Schobert , Jan Berges , Tim Wehling , Erik van Loon

Dynamics induced by a change of boundary conditions reveals rate-dependent signatures associated with topological properties in one-dimensional Kitaev chain and SSH model. While the perturbation from a change of the boundary propagates into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien

We perform digital quantum simulations of the noninteracting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using a parameterized quantum circuit. The circuit comprises two main components: the first prepares the initial state from the product state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Qing Xie , Kazuhiro Seki , Tomonori Shirakawa , Seiji Yunoki

The discovery of topological matter has revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics giving rise to many interesting phenomena, and fostering the development of new quantum technologies. In this thesis we study the quantum dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Miguel Bello

Topological phase transitions can be described by the theory of critical phenomena and identified by critical exponents that define their universality classes. This is a consequence of the existence of a diverging length at the transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 S. Rufo , Nei Lopes , Mucio A. Continentino , Griffith M. A. R

Non-Hermitian topological phases exhibit a number of exotic features that have no Hermitian counterparts, including the skin effect and breakdown of the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we implement the non-Hermitian…

In this paper, we study the topological properties of the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattice by periodically introducing onsite imaginary potentials in the manner of ($i\gamma_1$, $-i\gamma_2$, $-i\gamma_1$, $i\gamma_2$) where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Jia-Rui Li , Lian-Lian Zhang , Wei-Bin Cui , Wei-Jiang Gong

Topological insulators exhibit boundary states protected by bulk band topology, a principle first established in quantum systems and later extended to classical waves, including phononics. Conventionally, an $n$-dimensional bulk with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Joel R. Pyfrom , Kai Sun , Jihong A. Ma

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is likely the simplest one-dimensional concept to study non-trivial topological phases and topological excitations. Originally developed to explain the electric conductivity of polyacetylene, it has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 M. Esmann , F. R. Lamberti , A. Lemaitre , N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura

Motivated by recent experimental realizations of topological edge states in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains, we theoretically study a ladder system whose legs are comprised of two such chains. We show that the ladder hosts a rich phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Karmela Padavić , Suraj S Hegde , Wade DeGottardi , Smitha Vishveshwara

We present an exact analytical investigation of the topological properties and edge states of the Haldane model defined on a honeycomb lattice with zigzag edges. By exploiting translational symmetry along the ribbon direction, we perform a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ghassan Al-Mahmood , Mohsen Amini , Ebrahim Ghanbari-Adivi , Morteza Soltani