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This paper experimentally investigates topologically protected edge modes in a water wave channel through a direct geometric mapping to the one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. By designing a periodic channel with alternating…

In this paper, we review the basic concepts of topologically protected edge modes using the Su Schrieffer Heeger (SSH) model, originally introduced to describe electrical conductivity in doped polyacetylene polymer chains. We then propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 L. Q. English , A. Halchenko , F. Palmero

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains are paradigmatic examples of 1D topological insulators hosting zero-energy edge modes when the bulk of the system has a non-zero topological winding invariant. Recently, high-harmonic spectroscopy has been…

Topological insulators are a new class of materials that have attracted significant attention in contemporary condensed matter physics. They are different from the regular insulators and they display novel quantum properties that also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Navketan Batra , Goutam Sheet

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a paradigmatic one-dimensional (1-D) system that exhibits a non-trivial band topology. In this paper, we foreground a new scheme involving a 1-D chain of $2N+1$ Bosonic modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model on a two-dimensional square lattice has been considered as a significant platform for studying topological multipole insulators. However, due to the highly-degenerate bulk energy bands protected by $…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Zhang-Zhao Yang , An-Yang Guan , Wen-Jie Yang , Xin-Ye Zou , Jian-Chun Cheng

In this work, we theoretically study a modified Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in which each unit cell consists of three sites. Unlike existing extensions of the SSH model which are made by enlarging the periodicity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Mohammad Ghuneim , Raditya Weda Bomantara

We propose two kinds of distinguishing parameter regimes to induce topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) phase in a one dimensional (1D) multi-resonator cavity optomechanical system via modulating the frequencies of both cavity fields and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Lu Qi , Yan Xing , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

We introduce a topological photonic-crystal fiber that embeds a short Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain and supports two edge supermodes. Using full-vector modal analysis and a coupled generalized nonlinear Schroedinger equation, we show…

We design germanium-based higher-order topological cavities for terahertz applications by breaking the symmetry of a two-dimensional photonic crystal following the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. Calculations demonstrate the parity inversion of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Ian Colombo , Pietro Minazzi , Emiliano Bonera , Fabio Pezzoli , Jacopo Pedrini

Recent experimental advance in creating dissipative couplings provides a new route for engineering exotic lattice systems and exploring topological dissipation. Using the spatial lattice of atomic spinwaves in a vacuum vapor cell, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Dongdong Hao , Lin Wang , Xingda Lu , Xuzhen Cao , Suotang Jia , Ying Hu , Yanhong Xiao

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains are the simplest model systems that display topological edge states. We calculate high-harmonic spectra of SSH chains that are coupled to an external laser field of a frequency much smaller than the band…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 Hannah Jürß , Dieter Bauer

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model on two-dimensional square lattice exhibits a topological phase transition, which is related to the Zak phase determined by bulk band topology. The strong modulation of electron hopping causes nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Daichi Obana , Feng Liu , Katsunori Wakabayashi

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

The investigation of topological state transition in carefully designed photonic lattices is of high interest for fundamental research, as well as for applied studies such as manipulating light flow in on-chip photonic systems. Here, we…

Controlling the topological properties of quantum matter is a major goal of condensed matter physics. A major effort in this direction has been devoted to using classical light in the form of Floquet drives to manipulate and induce states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Olesia Dmytruk , Marco Schirò

Square-root topology is one of the newest additions to the ever expanding field of topological insulators (TIs). It characterizes systems that relate to their parent TI through the squaring of their Hamiltonians. Extensions to $2^n$-root…

Over the past decade, topological photonics has emerged as a vibrant field, attracting significant attention and witnessing remarkable advancements. This growth can be attributed to its fundamental appeal and the unique opportunities it…

Frenkel polaritons, hybrid light-matter quasiparticles, offer promises for the designing of new opto-electronic devices. However, their technological implementations are hindered by sensitivity to imperfections. Topology has raised as a way…

Metamaterials engineered to host topological states of matter in controllable quantum systems hold promise for the advancement of quantum simulations and quantum computing technologies. In this context, the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model…