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The fundamental concept underlying topological phenomena posits the geometric phase associated with eigenstates. In contrast to this prevailing notion, theoretical studies on time-varying Hamiltonians allow for a new type of topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Pengfei Lu , Yang Liu , Qifeng Lao , Teng Liu , Xinxin Rao , Ji Bian , Hao Wu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

Topology is being widely adopted to understand and to categorize quantum matter in modern physics. The nexus of topology orders, which engenders distinct quantum phases with benefits to both fundamental research and practical applications…

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a generic feature of topological states of matter, reflecting the intrinsic relation between topological bulk and boundary states. For example, robust edge states propagate along the edges and corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Hong Yao

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new quantum state of matter discovered recently, which are characterized by unconventional bulk topological invariants. Proposals for practical applications of the TIs are mostly based upon their metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 M. N. Chen , L. Sheng , R. Shen , D. N. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Topological insulating phases are usually found in periodic lattices stemming from collective resonant effects, and it may thus be expected that similar features may be prohibited in thermal diffusion, given its purely dissipative and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Guoqiang Xu , Yihao Yang , Xue Zhou , Hongsheng Chen , Andrea Alu , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Topology provides an essential concept for achieving unchanged (or protected) quantum properties in the presence of perturbations. A challenge facing realistic applications is that the level of protection displayed in real systems is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Anh Ho Hoai , Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We consider theoretically the nonlinear quantized Thouless pumping of a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in a two-dimensional dynamical optical lattices. We encountered three different scenarios of the pumping: quasi-linear one occurring for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-26 Qidong Fu , Peng Wang , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Fangwei Ye

The past few years have witnessed the rapid development of liquid metal dealloying to fabricate nano-/meso-scale porous and composite structures with ultra-high interfacial area for diverse materials applications. However, this method…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-22 Longhai Lai , Bernard Gaskey , Alyssa Chuang , Jonah Erlebacher , Alain Karma

We extend the theory of dipole moments in crystalline insulators to higher multipole moments. In this paper, we expand in great detail the theory presented in Ref. 1, and extend it to cover associated topological pumping phenomena, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes

We study the adiabatic topological charge pumping driven by interlayer sliding in the moir\'{e} superlattices. We show that, when we slide a single layer of the twisted bilayer system relatively to the other, a moir\'{e} pattern flow and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Manato Fujimoto , Henri Koschke , Mikito Koshino

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

A topological pump of the $SU(Q)$ quantum chain is proposed associated with a current due to a local $[U(1)]^{\otimes Q}$ gauge invariance of colored fermions. The $SU(Q)$ invariant dimer phases are characterized by the $Z_Q$ Berry phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-24 Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Yoshihito Kuno

We consider the analogy between the topological phase transition which occurs as a function of spatial coordinate on a surface of a non-trivial insulator, and the one which occurs in the bulk due to the change of internal parameters (such…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-06 Stanislav Chadov , Janos Kiss , Jürgen Kübler , Claudia Felser

Many-body topological quantum states host exotic quantum phenomena and lie at the forefront of developing next-generation quantum technologies. Recently emerged neural network wavefunction methods have established themselves as a powerful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Haoxiang Chen , Yubing Qian , Weiluo Ren , Xiang Li , Ji Chen

The topological property in one dimension (1D) is protected by symmetry. Based on a concrete model, we show that since a 1D topological model usually contain two of the three Pauli matrix, the left one automatically become the protecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Jihong Qin , Huaiming Guo

Topological phases of matter are the center of much current interest, with promising potential applications in, e.g., topologically-protected transport and quantum computing. Traditionally such states are prepared by tuning the system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-17 Gal Shavit , Moshe Goldstein

Thouless pumping, the quantized transport of particles in a cyclic adiabatic evolution, faces a challenge: slow driving may exceed the coherent time, while fast driving may break quantization. To address this dilemma, we propose to speed up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Wenjie Liu , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

The transport on top of a periodic two-dimensional hexagonal magnetic pattern of (i) a single macroscopic steel sphere, (ii) a doublet of wax/magnetite composite spheres, and (iii) an immiscible mixture of ferrofluid droplets with a…

Topological phases are robust against weak perturbations, but break down when disorder becomes sufficiently strong. However, moderate disorder can also induce topologically nontrivial phases. Thouless pumping, as a (1+1)D counterpart of the…

Vortex phenomena are ubiquitous in nature, from vortices of quantum particles and living cells [1-7], to whirlpools, tornados, and spiral galaxies. Yet, effective control of vortex transport from one place to another at any scale has thus…