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Supramolecular device (SMD) with topological end states and a noncovalent junction is rarely investigated but deemed promising for thermoelectric (TE) applications. We designed a new kind of SMD based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Wenlai Mu , Nisar Muhammad , Huaihong Guo , Zsolt Gulacsi , Teng Yang , Zhidong Zhang

We theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate the existence of topological edge states in a mechanical analog of the Kitaev chain with a non-zero chemical potential. Our system is a one-dimensional monomer system involving two…

Topological insulators are bulk semiconductors that manifest in-gap massless Dirac surface states due to the topological bulk-boundary correspondence principle [1-3]. These surface states have been a subject of tremendous ongoing interest,…

We study, the interplay between topology and electron-electron interactions in the moir\'{e} MoTe\(_2\)/WSe\(_2\) heterobilayer. In our analysis we apply an effective two-band model with complex hoppings that incorporates the Ising-type…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Palash Saha , Louk Rademaker , Michał Zegrodnik

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

Continuum lattice grid structures which consist of joined elastic beams subject to flexural deformations are ubiquitous. In this work, we establish a theoretical framework of the topological dynamics of continuum lattice grid structures,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yimeng Sun , Jiacheng Xing , Li-Hua Shao , Jianxiang Wang

A free boundary problem modeling a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) consisting of a fixed ground plate and a deformable top plate is considered, the plates being held at different electrostatic potentials. It couples a second order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Philippe Laurençot , Christoph Walker

Topology in condensed matter physics manifests itself in the emergence of edge or surface states protected by underlying symmetries. We review two-dimensional topological insulators whose one-dimensional edge states are characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Giacomo Dolcetto , Maura Sassetti , Thomas L. Schmidt

In this study topological properties of static and dynamic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger models with staggered further neighbor hopping terms of different extents are investigated. Topological characterization of the static chiral models is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Rittwik Chatterjee , Asim Kumar Ghosh

Identifying phases and analyzing the stability of dynamic states are ubiquitous and important problems which appear in various physical systems. Nonetheless, drawing a phase diagram in high-dimensional and large parameter spaces has…

We study a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain coupled to a single mode photonic cavity. Considering an off-resonant regime we use the high-frequency expansion in order to obtain an effective fermionic Hamiltonian with cavity-mediated interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Anna Ritz-Zwilling , Olesia Dmytruk

An important aspect in categorizing topological phases is whether the system is spinless or spinful, given that these classes exhibit distinct symmetry algebras, leading to disparate topological classifications. By utilizing the projective…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiaofan Zhou , Suotang Jia , Jian-Song Pan

Topological semimetals have emerged as an important class of quantum materials with novel electronic responses and unconventional transport phenomena. Among them, nodal-line semimetals are distinguished by band crossings that extend along…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-11 Ashutosh S. Wadge , Pardeep K. Tanwar , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri

We develop a general framework for classifying fermionic dynamical systems with measurements using symmetry and topology. We introduce two complementary classification schemes based on the Altland-Zirnbauer tenfold way: (1) the many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Asadullah Bhuiyan , Haining Pan , Chao-Ming Jian

We study a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at low energy limit and show that their collective dynamics exhibit interesting topological behavior. The system undergoes dynamical topological phase transition at its global periods if its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Mehdi Abdi

Electrostatic actuators are simple but important switching devices for MEMS applications. Due to the difficulties associated with the electrostatic nonlinearity, precise mathematical description is often hard to obtain for the dynamics of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Yisong Yang , Ruifeng Zhang , Le Zhao

We consider a 2d permanent magnet synchronous machine operating in a sequence of static operating points coming from a drive cycle. We aim to find a rotor design which maximizes the efficiency defined as the quotient of input and output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Nepomuk Krenn , Théodore Cherrière , Sebastian Schöps , Peter Gangl

The past decades have witnessed a transformation in characterizing condensed matter systems with topology. Aided by a refined understanding of topological band structures with crystalline symmetries that has emerged recently, many…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-12 Lin-Lin Wang , Hoi Chun Po , Robert-Jan Slager , Ashvin Vishwanath

We present a generalization of free fermionic topological insulators that are composed of topological subsystems of differing dimensionality. We specifically focus on topological subsystems of nonzero co-dimension are embedded within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Thomas I. Tuegel , Victor Chua , Taylor L. Hughes

In this work, we investigate the dynamic behavior and the topological properties of quasiperiodic elastic metasurfaces, namely arrays of mechanical oscillators arranged over the free surface of an elastic half-space according to a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Xingbo Pu , Antonio Palermo , Alessandro Marzani