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The sharply quantized transport observed in the integer quantum Hall effect can be explained via a simple one-dimensional model with a time-periodic, adiabatically varying potential in which electronic charge is pumped from one side of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-05 Marius Jürgensen , Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Thouless pumping provides one of the simplest manifestations of topology in quantum systems, and has attracted a lot of recent interest, both theoretically and experimentally. Since the seminal works by Thouless and Niu in 1983 and 1984, it…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-13 Roberta Citro , Monika Aidelsburger

Topological quantum pumps are topologically equivalent to the quantum Hall state: In these systems, the charge pumped during each pumping cycle is quantized and coincides with the Chern invariant. However, differently from quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro

Thouless pumps are time-periodic one-dimensional systems that capture the physics of the two-dimensional quantum Hall effect via the quantized pumping of particles under adiabatic modulation. Recent work in photonics has shown that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-21 Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

More than 30 years ago, Thouless introduced the concept of a topological charge pump that would enable the robust transport of charge through an adiabatic cyclic evolution of the underlying Hamiltonian. In contrast to classical transport,…

Thouless charge pumps are quantum mechanical devices whose operation relies on topology. They provide the means for transporting quantum matter in space lattices with a single quantum precision. Contrasting space crystals that spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tapio Simula , Niels Kjærgaard , Tilman Pfau

A topological 'Thouless' pump represents the quantised motion of particles in response to a slow, cyclic modulation of external control parameters. The Thouless pump, like the quantum Hall effect, is of fundamental interest in physics…

Adiabatic quantum pumping in one-dimensional lattices is extended by adding a tilted potential to probe better topologically nontrivial bands. This extension leads to almost perfectly quantized pumping for an arbitrary initial state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Yongguan Ke , Shi Hu , Bo Zhu , Jiangbin Gong , Yuri Kivshar , Chaohong Lee

Thouless pumping is an emblematic manifestation of topology in physics, referring to the ability to induce a quantized transport of charge across a system by simply varying one of its parameters periodically in time. The original concept of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 S. Ravets , N. Pernet , N. Mostaan , N. Goldman , J. Bloch

A topological charge pump [1] transfers charge in a quantized fashion. The quantization is stable against the detailed form of the pumping protocols and external noises and shares the same topological origin as the quantum Hall effect. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-11 Lei Wang , Matthias Troyer , Xi Dai

A one-dimensional quantum charge pump transfers a quantized charge in each pumping cycle. This quantization is topologically robust being analogous to the quantum Hall effect. The charge transferred in a fraction of the pumping period is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-27 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro , Carmine Ortix

Thouless charge pump enables a quantized transport of charge through an adiabatic evolution of the Hamiltonian exhibiting topological phase. While this charge pumping is known to be robust against the presence of weak disorder in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-29 Ashirbad Padhan , Tapan Mishra

A gas of electrons in a one-dimensional periodic potential can be transported even in the absence of a voltage bias if the potential is modulated slowly and periodically in time. Remarkably, the transferred charge per cycle is only…

Thouless' quantization of adiabatic particle transport permits to associate an integer topological charge with each atom of an electronically gapped material. If these charges are additive and independent of atomic positions, they provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-18 Paolo Pegolo , Federico Grasselli , Stefano Baroni

Nonlinear Thouless pumping has been established in periodic lattices; its counterpart in quasiperiodic lattices remains unexplored. Here, we show a nonlinear topological pumping of gap solitons in quasiperiodic lattices where the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Xiao-Xiao Hu , Dun Zhao , Hong-Gang Luo

Thouless pumping enables the transport of particles in a one-dimensional periodic potential if the potential is slowly and periodically modulated in time. The change in the position of particles after each modulation period is quantized and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-23 Ali Emami Kopaei , Krzysztof Giergiel , Krzysztof Sacha

We report on the topological pumping of quadratic optical solitons, observed through their quantized transport in a dynamic optical potential. A distinctive feature of this system is that the two fields with different frequencies, which…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-27 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Fangwei Ye , Vladimir V. Konotop

We investigate the dynamics of nonlinear optical Thouless pumps in the presence of disorder, using optical waveguide arrays. It was previously known that the displacement of solitons in Thouless pumps is quantized and may exhibit integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Abhijit P. Chaudhari , Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

The interplay between nonlinear and topological physics has led to intriguing emergent phenomena, such as quantized and fractionally quantized Thouless pumping of solitons dictated by the topological invariants of the underlying band…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ankitkumar Maisuriya , Siddhi Mali , Sunil Mittal

Thouless pumping with nontrivial topological phases provides a powerful means for the manipulation of matter waves in one-dimensional lattice systems. The band topology is revealed by the quantization of pumped charge. In the context of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-30 Yan-Jue Lv , Yang Peng , Yong-Kai Liu , Yi Zheng
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