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Topological phases at quantum criticality attract much attention recently. Here we numerically study the interaction-induced phase transitions at around the topological quantum critical points of an extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-09 Xiaofan Zhou , Suotang Jia , Jian-Song Pan

We amalgamate two fundamental designs from distinct areas of wave control in physics, and place them in the setting of elasticity. Graded elastic metasurfaces, so-called metawedges, are combined with the now classical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger…

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is one of the simplest models to show topological end/edge states and the existence of Majorana fermions. Here we consider a SSH like model both in one and two dimensions where a nearest neighbor hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Satyaki Kar

Multi-stable mechanical structures find cutting-edge applications across various domains due to their reconfigurability, which offers innovative possibilities for engineering and technology advancements. This study explores the emergence of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Zhen Wang , Feiyang Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Xin Li , Chuanqing Chen , Minghui Lu

The emergent higher-order topological insulators significantly deepen our understanding of topological physics. Recently, the study has been extended to topological semimetals featuring gapless bulk band nodes. To date, higherorder nodal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-30 Huahui Qiu , Yuzeng Li , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

Ultracold atom research presents many avenues to study problems at the forefront of physics. Due to their unprecedented controllability, these systems are ideally suited to explore new exotic states of matter, which is one of the key…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Indubala I Satija , Erhai Zhao

Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave functions. This review presents a pedagogical account on…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-04 Yoichi Ando

We propose a general scheme to construct a Hamiltonian $H_{\text{root}}$ describing a square root of an original Hamiltonian $H_{\text{original}}$ based on the graph theory. The square-root Hamiltonian is defined on the subdivided graph of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Motohiko Ezawa

We investigate the quantum phase transition of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model by inspecting the two-site entanglements in the ground state. It is shown that the topological phase transition of the SSH model is signified by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Jaeyoon Cho , Kun Woo Kim

It is well known that the topology of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger(SSH) model, which belongs to AIII symmetry class, is protected by chiral symmetry. In this article, instead of chiral symmetry, we constrain the bulk Hamiltonian by a magnetic point…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Chi-Ho Cheung , Jinyu Zou

Topological crystalline insulators are new states of matter in which the topological nature of electronic structures arises from crystal symmetries. Here we predict the first material realization of topological crystalline insulator in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-01 Timothy H. Hsieh , Hsin Lin , Junwei Liu , Wenhui Duan , Arun Bansil , Liang Fu

In this letter we summarise our study of Su-Schrieffer-Hegger(SSH) model with a one dimensional non-orientable manifold as bulk. For this purpose a SSH model with any bulk (SAB) is introduced. We observe the following: (1) The topology of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Bharathiganesh Devanarayanan

We study the effects of electron-electron interactions on the charge excitation spectrum of the spinful Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, a prototype of a 1D bulk obstructed topological insulator. In view of recent progress in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 David Mikhail , Benoit Voisin , Dominique Didier St Medar , Gilles Buchs , Sven Rogge , Stephan Rachel

The topological invariants of band insulators are usually assumed to depend only on the connectivity between orbitals and not on their intra-cell position (orbital embedding), which is a separate piece of information in the tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 J. -N. Fuchs , F. Piéchon

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

Three-dimensional topological insulators represent a new class of materials in which transport is governed by Dirac surface states while the bulk remains insulating. Due to helical spin polarization of the surface states, the coupling of a…

We investigate topological properties of density matrices motivated by the question to what extent phenomena like topological insulators and superconductors can be generalized to mixed states in the framework of open quantum systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Jan Carl Budich , Sebastian Diehl

This communication presents an examination of a two-dimensional, non-Hermitian Su -Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which is differentiated from its conventional Hermitian counterpart by incorporating gain and/or loss terms, mathematically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Udai Prakash Tyagi , Partha Goswami

We investigate interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains with two- and three-site unit cells using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations. By selecting appropriate filling fractions and sweeping across interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-18 Yuxiao Hang , Stephan Haas

Symmetry-protected topological phases of matter, characterized by non-trivial band topology, are spectrally gapped and show non-trivial boundary phenomena. Here, we show that scattering states when interjected by an array of periodically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Rahul Singh , Ritajit Kundu , Arijit Kundu , Adhip Agarwala