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We construct microscopical models of one-dimensional non-interacting topological insulators in all of the chiral universality classes. Specifically, we start with a deformation of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model that breaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Polina Matveeva , Tyler Hewitt , Donghao Liu , Kethan Reddy , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr

The canonical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is one of the basic geometries that have spurred significant interest in topologically nontrivial bandgap modes with robust properties. Here, we show that the inclusion of suitable third-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Yakir Hadad , Alexander B. Khanikaev , Andrea Alu

We investigate the topological properties of one-dimensional weakly interacting topological insulators using bosonization. To do that we study the topological edge states that emerge at the edges of a model realized by a strong impurity or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Polina Matveeva , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr

If a full band gap closes and then reopens when we continuously deform a periodic system while keeping its symmetry, a topological phase transition usually occurs. A common model demonstrating such a topological phase transition in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Xin Li , Yan Meng , Xiaoxiao Wu , Sheng Yan , Yingzhou Huang , Shuxia Wang , Weijia Wen

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a tight-binding one-dimensional (1D) lattice with alternating nearest-neighbor amplitudes. Despite its mathematically simple and physically intuitive structure, the SSH model is capable of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Raditya Weda Bomantara

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model perhaps is the easiest and the most basic model for topological excitations. Many variations and extensions of the SSH model have been proposed and explored to better understand both fundamental and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-01 Dizhou Xie , Wei Gou , Teng Xiao , Bryce Gadway , Bo Yan

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a paradigmatic one-dimensional (1-D) system that exhibits a non-trivial band topology. In this paper, we foreground a new scheme involving a 1-D chain of $2N+1$ Bosonic modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model lays the foundation of many important concepts in quantum topological matters. Since it tells one that topological states may be distinguished by abelian geometric phases, a question naturally arises as…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-28 Shao-Liang Zhang , Qi Zhou

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a finite one-dimensional dimer lattice with first-neighbour hoppings populated by non-interacting electrons. In this work we study a generalization of the SSH model including longer-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Beatriz Pérez-González , Miguel Bello , Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

We investigate the edge states and the topological phase transitions in a class of tight binding lattices in one dimension where a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model exists in disguise. The unit cells of such lattices may have an arbitrarily…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-07 Subhajyoti Bid , Arunava Chakrabarti

The interacting SSH model provides an ideal ground to study the interplay between topologically insulating phases and electron-electron interactions. We study the polarization density as a topological invariant and provide an analytic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-19 E. Di Salvo , A. Moustaj , C. Xu , L. Fritz , A. K. Mitchell , C. Morais Smith , D. Schuricht

We study a wide class of topological free-fermion systems on a hypercubic lattice in spatial dimensions $d\ge 1$. When the Fermi level lies in a spectral gap or a mobility gap, the topological properties, e.g., the integral quantization of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Hosho Katsura , Tohru Koma

We analyze the topological properties of a family of generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains and mesh geometries. In both the geometries the usual staggering in the distribution of the two overlap integrals is delayed (in space) by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Sougata Biswas , Arunava Chakrabarti

Two-dimensional (2D) model of a weak topological insulator with $N$-stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is studied. This study starts with a basic model with all the fundamental symmetries (chiral, time-reversal, and particle-hole)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-06 Aayushi Agrawal , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

We study two coupled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains system, which is shown to contain rich quantum phases associated with topological invariants protected by symmetries. In the weak coupling region, the system supports two non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Ci. Li , Sen. Lin , Gang. Zhang , Zhi. Song

We introduce an index for symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases of infinite fermionic chains with an on-site symmetry given by a finite group $G$. This index takes values in $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times H^1(G,\mathbb{Z}_2) \times H^2(G,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Chris Bourne , Yoshiko Ogata

Motivated by recent experimental realizations of topological edge states in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains, we theoretically study a ladder system whose legs are comprised of two such chains. We show that the ladder hosts a rich phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Karmela Padavić , Suraj S Hegde , Wade DeGottardi , Smitha Vishveshwara

We study the topological optical states in one-dimensional (1D) dimerized ultracold atomic chains, as an extension of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. By taking the fully retarded near-field and far-field dipole-dipole interactions…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-15 B. X. Wang , C. Y. Zhao

We study two-particle states in a Su-Shrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain with periodic boundary conditions and nearest-neighbor (NN) interactions. The system is mapped into a problem of a single particle in a two-dimensional (2D) SSH lattice with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-05 A. M. Marques , R. G. Dias

We study a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain coupled to a single mode photonic cavity. Considering an off-resonant regime we use the high-frequency expansion in order to obtain an effective fermionic Hamiltonian with cavity-mediated interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Anna Ritz-Zwilling , Olesia Dmytruk