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Chern numbers are gaining traction as they characterize topological phases in various physical systems. However, the resilience of the system topology to external perturbations makes it challenging to experimentally investigate transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Junghyun Lee , Keigo Arai , Huiliang Zhang , Mark J. H. Ku , Ronald L. Walsworth

Non-Hermitian quantum systems can exhibit unique observables characterizing topologically protected transport in the presence of decay. The topological protection arises from winding numbers associated with non-decaying dark states, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Mark S. Rudner , Michael Levin , Leonid S. Levitov

The quest to realize topological band structures in artificial matter is strongly focused on lattice systems, and only quantum Hall physics is known to appear naturally also in the continuum. In this letter, we present a proposal based on a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-22 Sebastian Weber , Przemyslaw Bienias , Hans Peter Büchler

The study of topological properties by machine learning approaches has attracted considerable interest recently. Here we propose machine learning the topological invariants that are unique in non-Hermitian systems. Specifically, we train…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Ling-Feng Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Zhi-Hao Huang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Wei Huang , Dan-Wei Zhang

Berry curvature that describes local geometrical properties of energy bands can elucidate many fascinating phenomena in solid-state, photonic, and phononic systems, given its connection to global topological invariants such as the Chern…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-21 Xuefan Yin , Ye Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zixuan Zhang , Susumu Noda , Chao Peng

We consider a two-dimensional system initialized in a topologically trivial state before its Hamiltonian is ramped through a phase transition into a Chern insulator regime. This scenario is motivated by current experiments with ultracold…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-21 Ying Hu , Peter Zoller , Jan Carl Budich

Two-dimensional 2-bands insulators breaking time reversal symmetry can present topological phases indexed by a topological invariant called the Chern number. Here we first propose an efficient procedure to determine this topological index.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Doru Sticlet , Frederic Piéchon , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Pavel Kalugin , Pascal Simon

We investigate the dynamical characterization theory for periodically driven systems in which Floquet topology can be fully detected by emergent topological patterns of quench dynamics in momentum subspaces called band-inversion surfaces.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-02-02 Bei-Bei Wang , Long Zhang

We present an investigation of how topological data analysis (TDA) can be applied to condition-based monitoring (CBM) of wind turbines for energy generation. TDA is a branch of data analysis focusing on extracting meaningful information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Simone Casolo , Alexander Stasik , Zhenyou Zhang , Signe Riemer-Sorensen

Bulk-edge correspondence is one of the most distinct properties of topological insulators. In particular, the 1D winding number $\n$ has a one-to-one correspondence to the number of edge states in a chain of topological insulators with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Han-Ting Chen , Chia-Hsun Chang , Hsien-chung Kao

We report on the measurement of topological invariants in an electromagnetic topological insulator analog formed by a microwave network, consisting of the winding numbers of scattering matrix eigenvalues. The experiment can be regarded as a…

Partition functions of some two-dimensional statistical models can be represented by means of Grassmann integrals over loops living on two-dimensional torus. It is shown that those Grassmann integrals are topological invariants, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Klimcik

It is known that, in the thermodynamic limit, the Chern number of a translationally invariant system cannot change under unitary time evolutions that are smooth in momentum space. Yet a real-space counterpart of the Chern number, the Bott…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-01 Yang Ge , Marcos Rigol

Topological invariants are fundamental characteristics reflecting global properties of quantum systems, yet their exploration has predominantly been limited to the static (DC) transport and transverse (Hall) channel. In this work, we extend…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-01 Alexander Kruchkov , Shinsei Ryu

Topological order can be found in a wide range of physical systems, from crystalline solids, photonic meta-materials and even atmospheric waves to optomechanic, acoustic and atomic systems. Topological systems are a robust foundation for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-04 A. Valdés-Curiel , D. Trypogeorgos , Q. -Y. Liang , R. P. Anderson , I. B. Spielman

In this Article we address the definition and values of topological numbers of the manifolds of wavefunctions - bands obtained by quantum superposition of the wavefunctions that belong to topologically distinct manifolds. The problem,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-15 E. V. Repin , Y. V. Nazarov

The occurrence of a topological phase transition can be demonstrated by a direct observation of a change in the topological invariant. For holographic topological semimetals, a topological Hamiltonian method needs to be employed to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-15 Xiantong Chen , Xuanting Ji , Ya-Wen Sun

Despite sharing a common lattice structure, monolayer M$_2$X$_2$ compounds realize quantum anomalous Hall phases with distinct Chern numbers, a striking phenomenon that has not been fully exploared. Combining first-principles calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Zujian Dai , Xudong Zhu , Lixin He

Based on previous results of digital topology, this paper focuses on algorithms of topological invariants of objects in 2D and 3D Digital Spaces. We specifically interest in solving hole counting of 2D objects and genus of closed surface in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Li Chen

Considering a BDI symmetric one-dimensional SSH model, we explore the fate of the bulk topological invariant, namely, the winding number under a generic time dependent perturbation; the effective Hamiltonian, that generates the temporal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-29 Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Utso Bhattacharya , Amit Dutta