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The simulation of synthetic dimensions by manipulating internal states of atoms and molecules has opened the door to investigate regimes outside those of more traditional quantum many-body platforms. Highly excited Rydberg states of atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Martin Trautmann , Inti Sodemann Villadiego , Johannes Deiglmayr

Recent interest has surged in eigenvalue's nonlinearity-based topological transport governed by the equation of auxiliary eigenvalues $H\Psi=\omega S(\omega)\Psi$ [T. Isobe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 126601 (2024); C. Bai and Z. Liang,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-22 Yanqi Zheng , Kun Pu , Ligging Ren , Chenxi Bai , Zhaoxin Liang

Topology is key in describing unconventional quantum phases of matter and devising robust quantum technology. Exactly how topology mixes with quantum mechanics remains largely unclear, as testified by the lack of a unifying microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Eugenio DelRe , Paolo Di Porto

We define and study analogs of the Thouless charge pump for many-body gapped systems in dimension $D$. We show how to attach a topological invariant to a $D$-dimensional family of such systems, provided all of them have an on-site $U(1)$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-24 Anton Kapustin , Lev Spodyneiko

Pumps are transport mechanisms in which direct currents result from a cyclic evolution of the potential. As Thouless has shown, the pumping process can have topological origins, when considering the motion of quantum particles in spatially…

Precise manipulation of individual charge carriers in nanoelectronic circuits underpins practical applications of their most basic quantum property --- the universality and invariance of the elementary charge. A charge pump generates a net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Bernd Kaestner , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

Quantum transport in a class of nonlinear extensions of the Rudner-Levitov model is numerically studied in this paper. We show that the quantization of the mean displacement, which embodies the quantum coherence and the topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Lei Du , Jin-Hui Wu , M. Artoni , G. C. La Rocca

We investigate the photon pumping effect in a topological model consisting of a periodically driven spin-1/2 coupled to a quantum cavity mode out of the adiabatic limit. In the strong-drive adiabatic limit, a quantized frequency conversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Christina Psaroudaki , Gil Refael

We explore adiabatic pumping in the presence of periodic drive, finding a new phase in which the topologically quantized pumped quantity is energy rather than charge. The topological invariant is given by the winding number of the…

We present a realization of quantized charge pumping. A lateral quantum dot is defined by metallic split gates in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. A surface acoustic wave whose wavelength is twice the dot length is used to pump single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Ebbecke , N. E. Fletcher , T. J. B. M. Janssen , F. J. Ahlers , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

The transport properties of gapless edge modes at boundaries between topologically distinct domains are of fundamental and technological importance. Therefore, it is crucial to gain a better understanding of topological edge states and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-07 Zijie Zhu , Marius Gächter , Anne-Sophie Walter , Konrad Viebahn , Tilman Esslinger

We consider quantum charge pumping of electrons across a superconducting double barrier structure in the adiabatic limit. The superconducting barriers are assumed to be reflection-less so that an incident electron on the barrier can either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arijit Saha , Sourin Das

We present a theoretical study of the electronic transport through a many-level quantum dot driven by time-dependent signals applied at the contacts to the leads. If the barriers oscillate out of phase the system operates like a turnstile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

Quantized adiabatic transport can occur when a system is slowly modulated over time. In most realizations however, the efficiency of such transport is reduced by unwanted dissipation, back-scattering, and non-adiabatic effects. In this…

Topological photonics was initially inspired by the quantum-optical analogy between the Schr\"odinger equation for an electron wavefunction and the paraxial equation for a light beam. Here, we reveal an unexpected phenomenon in topological…

Thouless's quantum adiabatic pumping is of fundamental interest to condensed-matter physics. It originally considered a zero-temperature equilibrium state uniformly occupying all the bands below a Fermi surface. In the light of recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Longwen Zhou , Da Yang Tan , Jiangbin Gong

One of the most fundamental difference between classical and quantum mechanics is observed in the particle tunneling through a localized potential: the former predicts a discontinuous transmission coefficient ($T$) as a function in incident…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 Ching-Hao Wang , Tzay-Ming Hong , Ray-Kuang Lee , Daw-Wei Wang

We propose and analyze theoretically a one-dimensional solid-state electronic setup that operates as a topological charge pump in the complete absence of superimposed oscillating local voltages. The system consists of a semiconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Sudhakar Pandey , Niccolo' Scopigno , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We investigate the longitudinal conductance of a disordered three-dimensional (3D) quantum Hall system within a tight-binding lattice model using numerical Thouless conductance calculations. For the bulk, we confirm that the mobility edges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-18 Chao Zheng , Kun Yang , Xin Wan

We investigate the quantization of adiabatic charge transport in the insulating ground state of finite systems. Topological charge pumps are used in experiments as an indicator of topological order. In the thermodynamic limit the transport…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-13 Rui Li , Michael Fleischhauer