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This paper presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the possible connection between thermalization of cubic nonlinear lattices with nearest-neighbor coupling and the structure of the mixing tensor that arises due to the presence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-02 Savvas S. Sardelis , Konstantinos G. Makris , Ziad H. Musslimani , Demetrios N. Christodoulides

The spin 1 bilinear-biquadratic model on square lattice in the region $0<\phi<\pi/4$ is studied in a fermion representation with a p-wave pairing BCS type mean-field theory. Our results show there may exist a non-trivial gapped spin liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Peng Li , Su-Peng Kou

Topological edge states exhibit dissipationless transport and electrically-driven topological phase transitions, making them ideal for next-generation transistors that are not constrained by Moore's law. Nevertheless, their dispersion has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Pankaj Bhalla , Ming-Xun Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang , Lan Wang , Dimitrie Culcer

Topological states have been widely investigated in different types of systems and lattices. In the present work, we report on topological edge states in double-wave (DW) chains, which can be described by a generalized Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-17 Tobias Schneider , Wenlong Gao , Thomas Zentgraf , Stefan Schumacher , Xuekai Ma

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 numerically investigate the characteristics of the long-time dynamics of a single-site wave-packet excitation in a disordered and nonlinear Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. In the linear regime, as the parameters controlling the topology of…

The interplay between topology and nonlinearity represents a central challenge in modern physics. Here, we investigate this interplay by considering a synthetic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice with all-to-all nonlocal interactions. We find…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-06 Chong-Xiao Chen , Zheng-Wei Zhou , Han Pu , Xi-Wang Luo

We present a general analysis of two-dimensional optical lattice models that give rise to topologically non-trivial insulating states. We identify the main ingredients of the lattice models that are responsible for the non-trivial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-07-13 Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma

Recent studies on topological materials are expanding into the nonlinear regime, while the central principle, namely the bulk-edge correspondence, is yet to be elucidated in the strongly nonlinear regime. Here, we reveal that nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Kazuki Sone , Motohiko Ezawa , Zongping Gong , Taro Sawada , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takahiro Sagawa

We investigate the spectral properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with sublattice-dependent onsite nonlinearity. Two complementary approaches are employed in our studies. First, Bloch state solutions under periodic boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Ahmed Alharthy , RW Bomantara

In this work, we demonstrate that the synergetic interplay of topology, nonreciprocity and nonlinearity is capable of unprecedented effects. We focus on a nonreciprocal variant of the Su-Shrieffer-Heeger chain with local Kerr nonlinearity.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-13 Bertin Many Manda , Vassos Achilleos

We investigate topological and disorder effects in non-Hermitian systems with chiral symmetry. The system under consideration consists in a finite Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain to which two semi-infinite leads are attached. The system lacks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 B. Ostahie , A. Aldea

Topological phases of matter have attracted much attention over the years. Motivated by analogy with photonic lattices, here we examine the edge states of a one-dimensional trimer lattice in the phases with and without inversion symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , M. D. Coutinho-Filho

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

Topological mechanical metamaterials have enabled new ways to control stress and deformation propagation. Exemplified by Maxwell lattices, they have been studied extensively using a linearized formalism. Herein, we study a two-dimensional…

We investigate quantum transport and thermoelectrical properties of a finite-size Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, a paradigmatic model for a one-dimensional topological insulator, which displays topologically protected edge states. By coupling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-25 Sina Böhling , Georg Engelhardt , Gloria Platero , Gernot Schaller

It was known that for non-Hermitian topological systems due to the non-Hermitian skin effect, the bulk-edge correspondence is broken down. In this paper, by using one-dimensional Su-SchriefferHeeger model and two-dimensional (deformed)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Can Wang , Xiao-Ran Wang , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou

We demonstrate dynamical topological phase transitions in evolving Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattices made of interacting soliton arrays, which are entirely driven by nonlinearity and thereby exemplify emergent nonlinear topological…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-05-17 Domenico Bongiovanni , Dario Jukić , Zhichan Hu , Frane Lunić , Yi Hu , Daohong Song , Roberto Morandotti , Zhigang Chen , Hrvoje Buljan

Nonlinearity induced topological properties in nonlinear lattice systems are studied in both momentum space and real space. Experimentally realizable through the Kerr effect on photonic waveguide systems, our working model depicts on-site…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Ching Hua Lee , Jiangbin Gong

We study a topological physics in a one-dimensional nonlinear system by taking an instance of a mechanical rotator model with alternating spring constants. This nonlinear model is smoothly connected to an acoustic model described by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 Motohiko Ezawa