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The sharply quantized transport observed in the integer quantum Hall effect can be explained via a simple one-dimensional model with a time-periodic, adiabatically varying potential in which electronic charge is pumped from one side of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-05 Marius Jürgensen , Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman

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

Thouless pumps are time-periodic one-dimensional systems that capture the physics of the two-dimensional quantum Hall effect via the quantized pumping of particles under adiabatic modulation. Recent work in photonics has shown that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-21 Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Recent studies have shown that a soliton can be {\it fractionally} transported by slowly varying a system parameter over one period in a nonlinear system. This phenomenon is attributed to the nontrivial topology of the corresponding energy…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-11 Yu-Liang Tao , Yongping Zhang , Yong Xu

The interplay between nonlinear and topological physics has led to intriguing emergent phenomena, such as quantized and fractionally quantized Thouless pumping of solitons dictated by the topological invariants of the underlying band…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ankitkumar Maisuriya , Siddhi Mali , Sunil Mittal

We investigate the dynamics of nonlinear optical Thouless pumps in the presence of disorder, using optical waveguide arrays. It was previously known that the displacement of solitons in Thouless pumps is quantized and may exhibit integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Abhijit P. Chaudhari , Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

It has recently been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed that a soliton resulting from nonlinearity can be pumped across an integer or fractional number of unit cells as a system parameter is slowly varied over a pump…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-21 Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

The dynamics of solitons driven in a nonlinear Thouless pump and its connection with the system's topology were recently explored for both weak and strong nonlinear strength. This work uncovers the fate of nonlinear Thouless pumping in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-09-12 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

Recent foundational studies have established the bulk-edge correspondence for nonlinear eigenvalue problems using auxiliary eigenvalues $\hat{H}\Psi=\omega S(\omega)\Psi$, spanning both linear [T. Isobe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 126601…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Chenxi Bai , Zhaoxin Liang

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

The nonlinear Thouless pumping is an exciting frontier of topological physics. While recent works have revealed the quantized motion of solitons in Thouless pumps, the interplay between the topology, nonlinearity and disorder remains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-19 Xuzhen Cao , Chunyu Jia , Ying Hu , Zhaoxin Liang

Nonlinear Thouless pumps for bosons exhibit quantized pumping via soliton motion, despite the lack of a meaningful notion of filled bands. However, the theoretical underpinning of this quantization, as well as its relationship to the Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Quantization of particle transport lies at the heart of topological physics. In Thouless pumps - dimensionally reduced versions of the integer quantum Hall effect - quantization is dictated by the integer winding of single-band Wannier…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-28 Marius Jürgensen , Jacob Steiner , Gil Refael , Mikael C. Rechtsman

A topological 'Thouless' pump represents the quantised motion of particles in response to a slow, cyclic modulation of external control parameters. The Thouless pump, like the quantum Hall effect, is of fundamental interest in physics…

We consider theoretically the nonlinear quantized Thouless pumping of a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in a two-dimensional dynamical optical lattices. We encountered three different scenarios of the pumping: quasi-linear one occurring for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-26 Qidong Fu , Peng Wang , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Fangwei Ye

Recent explorations of quantized solitons transport in optical waveguides have thrust nonlinear topological pumping into the spotlight. In this work, we introduce a unified topological invariant applicable across both weakly and strongly…

Nonlinear Thouless pumping has been established in periodic lattices; its counterpart in quasiperiodic lattices remains unexplored. Here, we show a nonlinear topological pumping of gap solitons in quasiperiodic lattices where the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Xiao-Xiao Hu , Dun Zhao , Hong-Gang Luo

Nonlinearity enables the emergence of localized waves such as solitons that maintain their shapes during propagation. Solitons are broadly classified into bright and dark solitons. While a bright soliton exhibits a density peak, a dark…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-12 Yu-Liang Tao , Huaxin He , Hao Lyu , Yongping Zhang , Yong Xu

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

We report on the topological pumping of quadratic optical solitons, observed through their quantized transport in a dynamic optical potential. A distinctive feature of this system is that the two fields with different frequencies, which…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-27 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Fangwei Ye , Vladimir V. Konotop
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