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We study the topological properties of the two-body bound states in an interacting Haldane model as a function of interparticle interactions. In particular, we identify topological phases where the two-body edge states have either the same…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-01 Grazia Salerno , Marco Di Liberto , Chiara Menotti , Iacopo Carusotto

Topological insulator lasers (TILs) are a recently introduced family of lasing arrays in which phase locking is achieved through synthetic gauge fields. These single frequency light source arrays operate in the spatially extended edge modes…

Ultracold fermions trapped in a honeycomb optical lattice constitute a versatile setup to experimentally realize the Haldane model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2015 (1988)]. In this system, a non-uniform synthetic magnetic flux can be engineered…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-15 N. Goldman , E. Anisimovas , F. Gerbier , P. Ohberg , I. B. Spielman , G. Juzeliunas

Robust edge states and non-Abelian excitations are the trademark of topological states of matter, with promising applications such as "topologically protected" quantum memory and computing. While so far topological phases have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Diehl , E. Rico , M. A. Baranov , P. Zoller

Topological systems are inherently robust to disorder and continuous perturbations, resulting in dissipation-free edge transport of electrons in quantum solids, or reflectionless guiding of photons and phonons in classical wave systems…

Existence of nontrivial topological phases in a tight binding Haldane-like model on the depleted Lieb lattice is reported. This two-band model is formulated by considering the nearest-neighbor, next-nearest-neighbor and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Arghya Sil , Asim Kumar Ghosh

We propose a realistic scheme to detect topological edge states in an optical lattice subjected to a synthetic magnetic field, based on a generalization of Bragg spectroscopy sensitive to angular momentum. We demonstrate that using a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-26 Nathan Goldman , Jerome Beugnon , Fabrice Gerbier

We investigate coupled electron-lattice dynamics in the topological insulator Bi2Te3 with time-resolved photoemission and time-resolved x-ray diffraction. It is well established that coherent phonons can be launched by optical excitation,…

Sub-laser cycle time scale of electronic response to strong laser fields enables attosecond dynamical imaging in atoms, molecules and solids. Optical tunneling and high harmonic generation are the hallmarks of attosecond imaging in optical…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-22 R. E. F. Silva , Á. Jiménez-Galán , B. Amorim , O. Smirnova , M. Ivanov

We analyze the topological and dynamical properties of a system formed by two chains of identical emitters coupled to a waveguide, whose guided modes induce all-to-all excitation hopping. We find that, in the single excitation limit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ciaran McDonnell , Beatriz Olmos

Topological photonics shows considerable promise in revolutionizing photonic devices through the use of topological phases, leading to innovations like topological lasers that enhance light control. One of recent breakthroughs is reducing…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-16 Guangtai Lu , Yasutomo Ota , Satoshi Iwamoto

Topological spin liquids are robust quantum states of matter with long-range entanglement and possess many exotic properties such as the fractional statistics of the elementary excitations. Yet these states, short of local parameters like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-28 Yan-Cheng Wang , Chen Fang , Meng Cheng , Yang Qi , Zi Yang Meng

Recent studies of disorder or non-Hermiticity induced topological insulators inject new ingredients for engineering topological matter. Here we consider the effect of purely non-Hermitian disorders, a combination of these two ingredients,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

Topological soliton is a nonperturbative excitation in commensurate density wave states and connects degenerate ground states. In incommensurate density wave states, ground states are continuously degenerate and topological soliton is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Dirk Manske , Naoto Nagaosa

In this work, we demonstrate that the synergetic interplay of topology, nonreciprocity and nonlinearity is capable of unprecedented effects. We focus on a nonreciprocal variant of the Su-Shrieffer-Heeger chain with local Kerr nonlinearity.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-13 Bertin Many Manda , Vassos Achilleos

We investigate theoretically the topological properties of dimerized quasi-one-dimensional (1D) lattice comprising of multi legs $(L)$ as well as multi sublattices $(R)$. The system has main and subsidiary exchange symmetries. In the basis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Milad Jangjan , Mir Vahid Hosseini

Recolliding electrons are responsible for many of the interesting phenomena observed in the interaction of strong laser fields with atoms and molecules. We show that in multielectron targets such as C60 a new important recollision pathway…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Ruggenthaler , S. V. Popruzhenko , D. Bauer

We have studied the excited states of a one-dimensional donor dimer array by using time-dependent Hartree-Fock and density-functional theories. We find that tuning the inter-donor distances can induce a topological phase transition from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Wei Wu , A. J. Fisher

We present an experimental observation of non-linear up- and down-converted optical luminescence of graphene and thin graphite subject to picosecond infrared laser pulses. We show that the excitation yields to a high density electron-hole…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-01 Rainer J. Stoehr , Roman Kolesov , Jens Pflaum , Joerg Wrachtrup

We investigate the formation of multipole topological solitons at the edges of two and three coupled parallel Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) waveguide arrays. We show that independent variations of waveguide spacing in the unit cells (dimers)…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-28 Khalil Sabour , Yaroslav V. Kartashov