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Recent progress in synthetic lattice systems has opened the door to novel explorations of topological matter. In particular, photonic devices and ultracold matter waves offer the unique possibility of studying the rich interplay between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nader Mostaan , Fabian Grusdt , Nathan Goldman

We consider symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with finite non-invertible symmetry $\mathcal{C}$ in 1+1d. In particular, we investigate interfaces and parameterized families of them within the framework of matrix product states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-19 Kansei Inamura , Shuhei Ohyama

One-dimensional topological pumping of matter waves in two overlaid optical lattices moving with respect to each other is considered in the presence of attractive nonlinearity. It is shown that there exists a threshold nonlinearity level…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-04-27 Qidong Fu , Peng Wang , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Fangwei Ye

In many contexts, the interaction between particles gives rise to emergent and perhaps unanticipated physical phenomena. An example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, where interaction between electrons gives rise to fractionally…

Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) possess localized and symmetry-protected eigenmodes at corners and along hinges in two and three dimensional lattices. The numbers of these topological boundary modes will undergo quantized changes at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Longwen Zhou , Rongtao Wang , Jiaxin Pan

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

The topological pumping [1-3] is revisited from a view point of the bulk-edge correspondence. Shift of the center of mass (CM) as a pumped charge is explicitly given by the Berry connection in time direction. We show that observed pumping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Y. Hatsugai , T. Fukui

Thouless pumping is a fundamental phenomenon recognized as being widespread across various areas of physics, with optics holding a particularly prominent role. Here, we study this effect for optical solitons in a medium where the refractive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-09 Fangwei Ye , Aidar H. Ryazhapov , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop

Generalised charge pumps are topological obstructions to trivialising loops in the space of symmetric gapped Hamiltonians. We show that given mild conditions on such pumps, the associated loop has high-symmetry points which must be in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-22 Nick. G. Jones , Ryan Thorngren , Ruben Verresen , Abhishodh Prakash

For a wide class of noninteracting tight-binding models in one dimension we present an analytical solution for all scattering and edge states on a half-infinite system. Without assuming any symmetry constraints we consider models with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Dante M. Kennes , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss , Herbert Schoeller

Higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) are characterized by symmetry-protected bound states at the corners or hinges of the system. In this work, we reveal a momentum-space counterpart of HOTPs in time-periodic driven systems, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Longwen Zhou

Certain topological systems with time-varying Hamiltonian enable quantized and disorder-robust transport of excitations. Here, we introduce the modification of the celebrated Thouless pump when the on-site energies remain fixed, while the…

Symmetry-protected topological phases (SPTs) characterized by short-range entanglement include many states essential to understanding of topological condensed matter physics, and the extension to gapless SPTs provides essential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 R. Flores-Calderón , Elio J. König , Ashley M. Cook

The breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence in non-Hermitian (NH) topological systems is an open, controversial issue. In this paper, to resolve this issue, we ask the following question: Can a (global) topological invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Xiao-Ran Wang , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou

In contrast to eigenvalue-based approaches, we formulate the bulk-boundary correspondence for two-dimensional non-Hermitian quadratic lattice Hamiltonians in terms of Toeplitz operators and singular values, which correctly capture the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 J. Sirker

One of the hallmarks of topological systems is the robust quantization of particle transport. It is the origin of the integer-valued quantum Hall conductivity and a potential tool for quantum information technology. Recent experiments on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Julius Bohm , Hugo Gerlitz , Christina Jörg , Michael Fleischhauer

Thouless charge pumps are quantum mechanical devices whose operation relies on topology. They provide the means for transporting quantum matter in space lattices with a single quantum precision. Contrasting space crystals that spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tapio Simula , Niels Kjærgaard , Tilman Pfau

Topological phases and topological phase transitions (TPT) are among the most fantastic phenomena in Nature. Here we show that injecting a current may lead to new topological phases, especially new gapless topological metallic phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

Atmospheric and oceanic mass transport near the equator display a well-studied asymmetry characterized by two modes moving eastward. This asymmetric edge transport is characteristic of interfaces separating two-dimensional topological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Guillaume Bal , Jiming Yu

By means of time-dependent density matrix renormalization group calculations we study topological quantum pumping in a strongly interacting system. The system under consideration is described by the Hamiltonian of a one-dimensional extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-26 Davide Rossini , Marco Gibertini , Vittorio Giovannetti , Rosario Fazio