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Recently, effects of nonlinearity on topologically nontrivial systems have attracted attention and the stability of topologically protected edge states has been studied for a quantum walk with nonlinear effects, which is akin to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Ken Mochizuki , Norio Kawakami , Hideaki Obuse

Many examples from quantum and classical physics are known where topological protection is responsible for the robustness of the dynamics. Less explored is the role of topological protection in the context of classical oscillatory systems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-07 Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

Decades of research have revealed a deep understanding of topological quantum matter with protected edge modes. We report that even richer physics emerges when tuning between two topological phases of matter whose respective edge modes are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-05 Saranesh Prembabu , Ryan Thorngren , Ruben Verresen

One dimensional $(1d)$ interacting systems with local Hamiltonians can be studied with various well-developed analytical methods. Recently novel $1d$ physics was found numerically in systems with either spatially nonlocal interactions, or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-16 Chao-Ming Jian , Yichen Xu , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Cenke Xu

The bulk electric polarization works as a nonlocal order parameter that characterizes topological quantum matters. Motivated by a recent paper [H. Watanabe \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 103}, 134430 (2021)], we discuss magnetic analogs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-03 Shunsuke C. Furuya , Masahiro Sato

One of the hallmarks of bulk topology is the existence of robust boundary localized states. For instance, a conventional $d$ dimensional topological system hosts $d{-}1$ dimensional surface modes, which are protected by non-spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Ruchira V Bhat , Soumya Bera

We propose and analyse an efficient scheme for simulating higher-order topological phases of matter in two dimensional (2D) spin-phononic crystal networks. We show that, through a specially designed periodic driving, one can selectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Xiao-Xiao Li , Peng-Bo Li

Constructing systems that exhibit time-scales much longer than those of the underlying components, as well as emergent dynamical and collective behavior, is a key goal in fields such as synthetic biology and materials self-assembly.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-22 Evelyn Tang , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian

The discovery of critical points that can host quantized nonlocal order parameters and degenerate edge modes relocate the study of symmetry-protected topological phases (SPTs) to gapless regions. In this letter, we reveal gapless SPTs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Longwen Zhou

The periodically driven quantum Ising chain has recently attracted a large attention in the context of Floquet engineering. In addition to the common paramagnet and ferromagnet, this driven model can give rise to new topological phases. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-26 Angelo Russomanno , Bat-el Friedman , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

We propose a realizable experiment scheme to construct a one-dimensional synthetic magnetic flux lattice with spin-tensor-momentum coupled spin-1 atoms and explore its exotic topological states. Different from the Altland-Zirnbauer…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-14 Zhoutao Lei , Yuangang Deng , Chaohong Lee

We argue that symmetry-broken phases proximate in phase space to symmetry-protected topological phases can exhibit dynamical signatures of topological physics. This dynamical, symmetry-protected "topological" regime is characterized by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-26 Daniel E. Parker , Romain Vasseur , Thomas Scaffidi

We investigate the non-equilibrium topology of a periodically driven, dissipative Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain using the ensemble geometric phase (EGP) $\phi_{\mathrm{EGP}}$-a generalisation of the Zak phase to open quantum systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Görkem D. Dinc , Alexander Schnell , Andy M. Martin

Recently, several authors have investigated topological phenomena in periodically-driven systems of non-interacting particles. These phenomena are identified through analogies between the Floquet spectra of driven systems and the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Mark S. Rudner , Netanel H. Lindner , Erez Berg , Michael Levin

We study the open system dynamics and steady states of two dimensional Floquet topological insulators: systems in which a topological Floquet-Bloch spectrum is induced by an external periodic drive. We solve for the bulk and edge state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Iliya Esin , Mark S. Rudner , Gil Refael , Netanel H. Lindner

Recently, the study of non-Hermitian physics has attracted considerable attention. The modified bulk-boundary correspondence has been proposed to understand topological edge states in non-Hermitian static systems. Here we report a new…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-18 Bo Wang , Tian Chen , Xiangdong Zhang

In this work, we introduce a new type of topological order which is protected by subsystem symmetries which act on lower dimensional subsets of lattice many-body system, e.g. along lines or planes in a three dimensional system. The symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-18 Yizhi You , Trithep Devakul , F. J. Burnell , S. L. Sondhi

Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) are characterized by symmetry-protected bound states at the corners or hinges of the system. In this work, we reveal a momentum-space counterpart of HOTPs in time-periodic driven systems, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Longwen Zhou

The bulk-edge correspondence guarantees that the interface between two topologically distinct insulators supports at least one topological edge state that is robust against static perturbations. Here, we address the question of how dynamic…

Time-periodic driving fields could endow a system with peculiar topological and transport features. In this work, we find dynamically controlled localization transitions and mobility edges in non-Hermitian quasicrystals via shaking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Longwen Zhou