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We consider the two-dimensional topological Chern insulator in the presence of static disorder. Generic quantum states in this system are Anderson localized. However, topology requires the presence of a subset of critical states, with…

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The engineering of topological non-trivial states of matter, using cold atoms, has made great progress in the last decade. Driven by experimental successes, it has become of major interest in the cold atom community. In this work we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-16 Urs Gebert , Bernhard Irsigler , Walter Hofstetter

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

We investigate the topological phase transition with large Chern number in a coupled layer system. The topological transitions between different topological superfluids can be realized by controlling the binding energy, interlay tunneling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-29 Beibing Huang , Jeffrey Chun Fai Chan , Ming Gong

Topologically non-trivial Hamiltonians with periodic boundary conditions are characterized by strictly quantized invariants. Open questions and fundamental challenges concern their existence, and the possibility of measuring them in systems…

The continuous effort towards topological quantum devices calls for an efficient and non-invasive method to assess the conformity of components in different topological phases. Here, we show that machine learning paves the way towards…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-24 Marcello D. Caio , Marco Caccin , Paul Baireuther , Timo Hyart , Michel Fruchart

We propose a scheme for measuring topological properties in a two-photon-driven Kerr-nonlinear resonator (KNR) subjected to a single-photon modulation. The topological properties are revealed through the observation of the Berry curvature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Bi-Yao Wang , Hao-Long Zhang , Shou-Bang Yang , Fan Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Spatially resolved local quantum geometric markers play a crucial role in the diagnosis of topological phases without long-range translational symmetry, including amorphous systems. Here, we focus on the nonlocality of such markers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Quentin Marsal , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Topological band insulators are classified using momentum-space topological invariants, such as Chern or winding numbers, when they feature translational symmetry. The lack of translation symmetry in disordered, quasicrystalline, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Lucien Jezequel , Jens H. Bardarson , Adolfo G. Grushin

Local markers provide an efficient and powerful characterization of topological features of many systems, especially when the translation symmetry is broken. Recently, a universal topological local marker applicable in different symmetry…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Yulin Qin , Chang-An Li , Jian Li

Conventional Chern insulators are two-dimensional periodic structures that support unidirectional edge states at the boundary, while the wave propagation in the bulk regions is forbidden. The number of unidirectional edge states is governed…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-22 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

We propose to use generic Chern numbers for a characterization of topological insulators. It is suitable for a numerical characterization of low dimensional quantum liquids where strong quantum fluctuations prevent from developing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Topological photonic crystals, which offer topologically protected and back-scattering-immune transport channels, have recently gained significant attention for both scientific and practical reasons. Although most current studies focus on…

Topological phases of matter are the center of much current interest, with promising potential applications in, e.g., topologically-protected transport and quantum computing. Traditionally such states are prepared by tuning the system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-17 Gal Shavit , Moshe Goldstein

Quantum metrology is deeply connected to quantum geometry, through the fundamental notion of quantum Fisher information. Inspired by advances in topological matter, it was recently suggested that the Berry curvature and Chern numbers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Min Yu , Xiangbei Li , Yaoming Chu , Bruno Mera , F. Nur Ünal , Pengcheng Yang , Yu Liu , Nathan Goldman , Jianming Cai

We propose a method of measuring topological invariants of a photonic crystal through phase spectroscopy. We show how the Chern numbers can be deduced from the winding numbers of the reflection coefficient phase. An explicit proof of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. V. Poshakinskiy , A. N. Poddubny , M. Hafezi

A hallmark feature of topological physics is the presence of one-way propagating chiral modes at the system boundary. The chirality of edge modes is a consequence of the topological character of the bulk. For example, in a non-interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sunil Mittal , Sriram Ganeshan , Jingyun Fan , Abolhassan Vaezi , Mohammad Hafezi

It is often thought that emergent phenomena in topological phases of matter are destroyed when tuning to a critical point. In particular, topologically protected edge states supposedly delocalize when the bulk correlation length diverges.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-13 Ruben Verresen

We establish the theory of critical transport in amorphous Chern insulators and show that it lies beyond the current paradigm of topological criticality epitomized by the quantum Hall transitions. We consider models of Chern insulators on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Moein N. Ivaki , Isac Sahlberg , Teemu Ojanen

While topology is a property of a quantum state itself, most existing methods for characterizing the topology of interacting phases of matter require direct knowledge of the underlying Hamiltonian. We offer an alternative by utilizing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Julia D. Hannukainen , Miguel F. Martínez , Jens H. Bardarson , Thomas Klein Kvorning