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We study a quasiperiodic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice with staggered on-site gain-loss. The results reveal that on-site staggered gain-loss can effectively induce non-Hermitian topological gap without introducing imaginary phase. Further…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-21 Zhi-Bin Liang , Shan-Zhong Li , Runze Li , Zhi Li

Over the past decade, cavity solitons have attracted substantial attention for their rich dynamics and their myriad potential applications. Recently, there has been growing interest in understanding cavity solitons in systems of coupled…

We theoretically investigate emergent topological phases in an extended spin-full Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model considering Rashba spin-orbit interaction, all possible complex next to next nearest neighbor (NNNN) hopping preserving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Hemant Kumar Sharma , Arijit Saha , Saptarshi Mandal

The on-site potentials may break the symmetry of a system, resulting in the loss of its original topology protected by the symmetry. In this work, we study the counteracting effect of non-Hermitian terms on real potentials, resulting in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-09 E. S. Ma , K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

Topological photonic systems offer light transport that is robust against defects and disorder, promising a new generation of chip-scale photonic devices and facilitating energy-efficient on-chip information routing and processing. However,…

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…

It is shown that the concept of topological phase transitions can be used to design nonlinear photonic structures exhibiting power thresholds and discontinuities in their transmittance. This provides a novel route to devising nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-15 Xin Zhou , You Wang , Daniel Leykam , Y. D. Chong

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a prototype model in the field of topological condensed matter physics, and the existence and characteristics of its topological edge states are crucial for revealing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Weibo Xu

We propose to manipulate topological polaritons in optomechanical ladders consisting of an optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain and a mechanical SSH chain connected through optomechanical (interchain) interactions. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Jia-Kang Wu , Xun-Wei Xu , Hui Jing , Le-Man Kuang , Franco Nori , Jie-Qiao Liao

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

In this paper, we study the topological properties of the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattice by periodically introducing onsite imaginary potentials in the manner of ($i\gamma_1$, $-i\gamma_2$, $-i\gamma_1$, $i\gamma_2$) where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Jia-Rui Li , Lian-Lian Zhang , Wei-Bin Cui , Wei-Jiang Gong

Topological physics provides novel insights for designing functional photonic devices, such as magnetic-free optical diodes, which are important in optical engineering and quantum information processing. Past efforts mostly focus on the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-15 Xiao Liu , Jiefei Wang , Ruosong Mao , Huizhu Hu , Shi-Yao Zhu , Xingqi Xu , Han Cai , Da-Wei Wang

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…

We simulate the the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions constructed, in a single atom, from a ladder of six neighboring $n\:^3S_1$ Rydberg states in which adjacent states are coupled with two-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Yi Lu , Chuanyu Wang , Soumya K. Kanungo , F. Barry Dunning , Thomas C. Killian

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is the simplest example of a lattice with non-trivial topology. It supports mid-gap topologically protected states, whose energies are unaffected by disorder. We show that photonic multilayer structures…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-09 D. M. Whittaker , R. Ellis

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is the reference model of a one-dimensional topological insulator. Its topological nature can be explained by the quantization of the Zak phase, due to reflection symmetry of the unit cell, or of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Malte Röntgen , Xuelong Chen , Wenlong Gao , Maxim Pyzh , Peter Schmelcher , Vincent Pagneux , Vassos Achilleos , Antonin Coutant

Periodic driving can induce the emergence of topological pi modes, and their superposition with zero modes leads to two-period dynamics. Introducing long-range couplings enables the realization of larger topological winding numbers, which…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-05 Changsen Li , Yujie Zhou , Xiumei Wang , Xingping Zhou

In this work, using binary Bose-Einstein condensate we propose a new type of topological insulator that does not explicitly use specially designed potential landscape, but instead utilizes spatially inhomogeneous Rabi coupling between two…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-11-06 Chunyan Li , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a fundamental lattice model used to study topological physics. Here, we propose a new versatile one-dimensional (1D) lattice model that extends beyond the SSH model. Our 1D model breaks chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Qing Wang , Ning Hao

The emergence of complex spectra in non-Hermitian systems causes dramatic changes even under weak perturbations, significantly hindering their precise control for study and integration into practical applications. Achieving a controlled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Masatoshi Sato