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We propose a novel approach to study the topological properties of matter. In this approach, fermionic atoms are placed in an external magnetic field and in a two-dimensional spin-dependent optical lattice (SDOL) created by intersecting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-13 Igor Kuzmenko , Mirosław Brewczyk , Grzegorz Łach , Marek Trippenbach , Y. B. Band

Topologically engineered optical materials support robust light transport. Herein, the investigated non-Hermitian lattice is trimerized and inhomogeneously coupled using uniform intracell coupling. The topological properties of the coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 L. Jin

A spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ subsystem conjoined along a cut with a subsystem of spinless fermions in the state of topological insulator is studied on a honeycomb lattice. The model describes a junction between a 2D topological insulator and a 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-27 Igor O. Slieptsov , Igor N. Karnaukhov

Here we provide a general methodology to directly measure the topological currents emerging in the optical lattice implementation of the Haldane model. Alongside the edge currents supported by gapless edge states, transverse currents can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Alvaro Rubio-García , Chris N. Self , Juan Jose García-Ripoll , Jiannis K. Pachos

The topological band theory predicts that bulk materials with nontrivial topological phases support topological edge states. This phenomenon is universal for various wave systems and has been widely observed for electromagnetic and acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Hao Hu , Song Han , Yihao Yang , Dongjue Liu , Haoran Xue , Gui-Geng Liu , Zheyu Cheng , Qi Jie Wang , Shuang Zhang , Baile Zhang , Yu Luo

Within the rigorous axiomatic framework for the description of quantum mechanical systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, we construct the so-called nonequilibrium steady state for the quasifree fermionic system corresponding to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Walter H. Aschbacher

In this work, we propose a new and simple model that supports Chern semimetals. These new gapless topological phases share several properties with the Chern insulators like a well-defined Chern number associated to each band, topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Giandomenico Palumbo , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis

We introduce a one dimensional non-Hermitian four band tight binding lattice system. We find stable topological edge states protected by particle-hole and parity-time symmetries. We show that topological phase appears in the system. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 C. Yuce

Time-dependent perturbations can drive a trivial two-dimensional band insulator into a quantum Hall-like phase, with protected nonequilibrium states bound to its edges. We propose an experiment to probe the existence of these topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Jan P. Dahlhaus , Joel E. Moore

Topological phenomena in non-Hermitian systems have recently become a subject of great interest in the photonics and condensed-matter communities. In particular, the possibility of observing topologically-protected edge states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Pablo Reséndiz-Vázquez , Konrad Tschernig , Armando Perez-Leija , Kurt Busch , Roberto de J. León-Montiel

We consider the extended hard-core Bose-Hubbard model on a Kagome lattice with boundary conditions on two edges. We find that the sharp edges lift the degeneracy and freeze the system into a striped order at 1/3 and 2/3 filling for zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-02 Xue-Feng Zhang , Sebastian Eggert

Using the micro-canonical picture of transport -- a framework ideally suited to describe the dynamics of closed quantum systems such as ultra-cold atom experiments -- we show that the exact dynamics of non-interacting fermions and bosons…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-11 Chih-Chun Chien , Michael Zwolak , Massimiliano Di Ventra

This paper investigates the bulk and boundary dynamics of Laughlin states, which are modeled using composite boson theory within a fluid dynamics framework. In this work, we adopt an alternative starting point based on a hydrodynamic action…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Gustavo M. Monteiro , V. P. Nair , Sriram Ganeshan

In this work, we investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional spinless fermions loaded in a cavity with imbalanced pumping lasers. Our study is motivated by previous work on a similar setup using bosons, and we explore the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-21 Xiaotian Nie , Wei Zheng

While chirality imbalances are forbidden in conventional lattice systems, non-Hermiticity can effectively avoid the chiral-doubling theorem to facilitate 1D chiral dynamics. Indeed, such systems support unbalanced unidirectional flows that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Penghao Zhu , Xiao-Qi Sun , Taylor L. Hughes , Gaurav Bahl

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

Robustness against disorder and defects is a pivotal advantage of topological systems, manifested by absence of electronic backscattering in the quantum Hall and spin-Hall effects, and unidirectional waveguiding in their classical analogs.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

We introduce a novel class of low-dimensional topological tight-binding models that allow for bound states that are fractionally charged fermions and exhibit non-Abelian braiding statistics. The proposed model consists of a double (single)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

In nonlinear topological systems, edge solitons either originate from linear topological edge modes or emerge as nonlinearity-induced localized states without topological protection. While electric circuits (ECs) provide a platform for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-26 Rujiang Li , Xiangyu Kong , Wencai Wang , Yixi Wang , Yongtao Jia , Huibin Tao , Pengfei Li , Ying Liu , Boris A. Malomed

One of the most prominent characteristics of two-dimensional Quantum Hall systems are chiral edge modes. Their existence is a consequence of the bulk-boundary correspondence and their stability guarantees the quantization of the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Sonja Fischer , Michal van Hooft , Twan van der Meijden , Cristiane Morais Smith , Lars Fritz , Mikael Fremling