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Exploring topological phases in interacting systems is a challenging task. We investigate many-body topological physics of interacting fermions in an extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which extends the two sublattices of SSH model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-16 Xiaofan Zhou , Jian-Song Pan , Suotang Jia

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, containing dimerized hopping and a constant onsite energy, has become a paradigmatic model for one-dimensional topological phases, soliton excitations and fractionalized charge in the presence of chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-08 Wojciech Brzezicki , Timo Hyart

Metamaterials engineered to host topological states of matter in controllable quantum systems hold promise for the advancement of quantum simulations and quantum computing technologies. In this context, the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model…

In this tutorial, we pedagogically review recent developments in the field of non-interacting fermionic phases of matter, focussing on the low energy description of higher-order topological insulators in terms of the Dirac equation. Our aim…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Frank Schindler

Plasmonic many-particle systems with precisely tuned resonances and coupling strengths can exhibit emergent collective properties governed by universal principles. In one-dimensional chains with alternating couplings, known as…

Two-dimensional (2D) model of a weak topological insulator with $N$-stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is studied. This study starts with a basic model with all the fundamental symmetries (chiral, time-reversal, and particle-hole)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-06 Aayushi Agrawal , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

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

We analyze the topological properties of a family of generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains and mesh geometries. In both the geometries the usual staggering in the distribution of the two overlap integrals is delayed (in space) by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Sougata Biswas , Arunava Chakrabarti

We consider a three-dimensional model of coupled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. The analytically soluble model discussed here reliably reproduces the features of the band structure of crystalline polyacetylene as obtained from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-22 Peter Rosenberg , Efstratios Manousakis

The realization of topological edge states (TESs) in photonic systems has provided unprecedented opportunities for manipulating light in novel manners. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model has recently gained significant attention and has…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-30 Yongkang Gong , Liang Guo , Stephan Wong , Anthony J. Bennett , Sang Soon Oh

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

Recent experimental advance in creating dissipative couplings provides a new route for engineering exotic lattice systems and exploring topological dissipation. Using the spatial lattice of atomic spinwaves in a vacuum vapor cell, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Dongdong Hao , Lin Wang , Xingda Lu , Xuzhen Cao , Suotang Jia , Ying Hu , Yanhong Xiao

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes the dynamics of spinless fermions in a one-dimensional lattice, with sublattices $A$ and $B$, and governed by staggered hopping potentials $v$ and $w$ representing the intracell and intercell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Dyn Paulo C. Dasallas , Eduardo C. Cuansing

Topological insulating phases are primarily associated with condensed-matter systems, which typically feature short-range interactions. Nevertheless, many realizations of quantum matter can exhibit long-range interactions, and it is still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Pedro Nevado , Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo , Diego Porras

$\mathbb{Z}$-classified topological phases lead to larger-than-unity topological states. However, these multiple topological states are only localized at the corners in nonlocal systems. Here, first, we rigorously prove that the multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yimeng Sun , Linjuan Wang , Huiling Duan , Jianxiang Wang

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is central to band topology in condensed matter physics, which allows us to understand and design distinct topological states. In this work, we find another mechanism to analogize the SSH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Yuanjun Jin , XingYu Yue , Yong Xu , Xiang-Long Yu , Guoqing Chang

We briefly review the advanced mathematical language of fiber bundle structures and how they can be used to classify two-level quantum systems based on the analysis of the topological properties of their sets of state vectors. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 V. Nam Do

Atomically thin topological materials are attracting growing attention for their potential to radically transform classical and quantum electronic device concepts. Amongst them is the quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator - a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Michael S. Lodge , Shengyuan A. Yang , Shantanu Mukherjee , Bent Weber

It is known that a two dimensional dimerized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model can produce a nontrivial topological phase. It is a simple nearest-neighbor model with either two or four lattice sites in in two dimensions. Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-10 Chani Stella van Niekerk , Robert Warmbier