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Motivated by recent experimental progress in the study of quantum systems far from equilibrium, we investigate the relation between several dynamical signatures of topology in the coherent time-evolution after a quantum quench.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Lorenzo Pastori , Simone Barbarino , Jan Carl Budich

Characterization of equilibrium topological quantum phases by non-equilibrium quench dynamics provides a novel and efficient scheme in detecting topological invariants defined in equilibrium. Nevertheless, most of the previous studies have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Junchen Ye , Fuxiang Li

We develop the topological band theory for systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose energy spectra are generally complex. After generalizing the notion of gapped band structures to the non-Hermitian case, we classify "gapped"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Huitao Shen , Bo Zhen , Liang Fu

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

Nontrivial topological invariant of bulk electronic wavefunctions in two-dimensional quantum crystals leaves its footprints on the edge, dislocation, and corner modes. Here we investigate non-unitary time dynamics of these topological modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Saakshi Porwal , Bitan Roy

The staggered quantum walk is a type of discrete-time quantum walk model without a coin which can be generated on a graph using particular partitions of the graph nodes. We design Hamiltonians for potential realization of the staggered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jalil Khatibi Moqadam , Ali T. Rezakhani

We consider the unitary time evolution of a one-dimensional quantum system which is in a stationary state for negative times and then undergoes a sudden change (quench) of a parameter of its Hamiltonian at t=0. For systems possessing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-09 Gesualdo Delfino

Topological invariants are global properties of the ground-state wave function, typically defined as winding numbers in reciprocal space. Over the years, a number of topological markers in real space have been introduced, allowing to map…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

The appearance of topological effects in systems exhibiting a non-trivial topological band structure strongly relies on the coherent wave nature of the equations of motion. Here, we reveal topological dynamics in a classical stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 G. Engelhardt , M. Benito , G. Platero , G. Schaller , T. Brandes

Topological characteristics of quantum systems are typically determined by the closing of a gap, while the dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) during quantum real-time evolution has emerged as a nonequilibrium analog to the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Y. B. Shi , X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

Periodic Hamiltonians on a three-dimensional (3-D) lattice with a spectral gap not only on the bulk but also on two edges at the common Fermi level are considered. By using K-theory applied for the quarter-plane Toeplitz extension, two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Shin Hayashi

Two-dimensional lattice models subjected to an external effective magnetic field can form nontrivial band topologies characterized by nonzero integer band Chern numbers. In this Letter, we investigate such a lattice model originating from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-01 Dong Wang , Zhao Liu , Junpeng Cao , Heng Fan

We propose to uncover the topology of a pseudo-Hermitian Chern insulator by quantum quench dynamics. The Bloch Hamiltonian of the pseudo-Hermitian Chern insulator is defined in the basis of the q-deformed Pauli matrices, which are related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Peng He , Yan-Qing Zhu , Jian-Te Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

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

Quenching a quantum system involves three basic ingredients: the initial phase, the post-quench target phase, and the non-equilibrium dynamics which carries the information of the former two. Here we propose a dynamical theory to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-22 Long Zhang , Lin Zhang , Ying Hu , Sen Niu , Xiong-Jun Liu

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

Electronic flat bands have localized Wannier-like orbitals as zero modes. In the Lieb or the kagome models, the localized orbitals satisfy a topological condition that entails two non-contractible loop eigenstates along $x/y$-axis in real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Rui-Heng Liu , Jiangping Hu , Chen Fang

Topology in quench dynamics gives rise to intriguing dynamic topological phenomena, which are intimately connected to the topology of static Hamiltonians yet challenging to probe experimentally. Here we experimentally detect momentum-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Kunkun Wang , Xingze Qiu , Lei Xiao , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Barry C. Sanders , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Quantum algorithms provide a potential strategy for solving computational problems that are intractable by classical means. Computing the topological invariants of topological matter is one central problem in research on quantum materials,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Marcel Niedermeier , Marc Nairn , Christian Flindt , Jose L. Lado

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…