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Topological insulator lie at the forefront of condensed matter physics. However strong disorder can destroy the topological states and make all states become localized. In this paper, we investigate the competition between topology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Xin Guan , Gang Chen

We study the disconnected entanglement entropy, $S^D$, of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. $S^D$ is a combination of both connected and disconnected bipartite entanglement entropies that removes all area and volume law contributions, and is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-18 Tommaso Micallo , Vittorio Vitale , Marcello Dalmonte , Pierre Fromholz

We consider an extended trimer Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) tight-binding Hamiltonian keeping up to next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping terms and on-site potential energy. The Bloch Hamiltonian can be expressed in terms of all the eight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Sonu Verma , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

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

Topological Surface States (TSS) represent new types of two dimensional electron systems with novel and unprecedented properties distinct from any quantum Hall-like or spin-Hall effects. Their Z$_2$ topological order can be realized at room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , David Hsieh , L. Andrew Wray , Yuqi Xia

Supramolecular device (SMD) with topological end states and a noncovalent junction is rarely investigated but deemed promising for thermoelectric (TE) applications. We designed a new kind of SMD based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Wenlai Mu , Nisar Muhammad , Huaihong Guo , Zsolt Gulacsi , Teng Yang , Zhidong Zhang

Quantum wells formed by layers of HgTe between Hg$_{1-x}$Cd$_x$Te barriers lead to two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators, as predicted by the BHZ model. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the characteristics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 G. J. Ferreira , D. R. Candido , F. G. G. Hernandez , G. M. Gusev , E. B. Olshanetsky , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

The topological phase of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is known to exhibit two edge states that are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. We demonstrate that, for any parameter quench performed on the half-filled SSH chain,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Lorenzo Rossi , Fausto Rossi , Fabrizio Dolcini

In order to transport information with topological protection, we reveal and demonstrate experimentally the existence of a characteristic length $L_c$, coined as the transport length, in the bulk size for edge states in one-dimensional…

Higher order topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators in dimensions $\rm d>1$. These higher-order topological insulators possess $\rm (d - 1)$-dimensional boundaries that, unlike those of conventional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

Motivated by the recent experimental observation of an intermediate bosonic metallic state in the two-dimensional superconductor-insulator transition at $T=0$, we study an extended Bose Hubbard model in the limit of large number of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-12 Håvard H. Haugen , Asle Sudbø

Hybrid two-dimensional electron gas-superconductor (2DEG-S) structures in a quantized magnetic field offer a promising platform for realizing new topological phases. While recent experiments reveal chiral Andreev edge states, their charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 M. V. Parfenov , V. S. Khrapai , I. S. Burmistrov

We study the two-dimensional extension of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in its higher order topological insulator phase, which is known to host corner states. Using the separability of the model into a product of one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Antonin Coutant , Vassos Achilleos , Olivier Richoux , Georgios Theocharis , Vincent Pagneux

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

Higher order topology, in the form of the emergence of corner modes, is observed in two dimensions when crystalline symmetries are superposed on the Altland-Zirnbauer classification of topological insulators. It occurs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Koustav Roy , Latu Kalita , B. Tanatar , Saurabh Basu

The hybrid atoms-cell site entanglement in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) topological insulator with first and second neighbor hopping interaction in space representation of finite chains is analyzed. The geometric phase is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Francisco A. Domínguez-Serna , F. Rojas

Recently, the notion of topological phases of matter has been extended to higher-order incarnations, supporting gapless modes on even lower dimensional boundaries, such as corners and hinges. We here identify a collection of cubic spin-3/2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Andras Szabo , Roderich Moessner , Bitan Roy

Higher-order topological insulators, which support lower-dimensional topological boundary states than the first-order topological insulators, have been intensely investigated in the integer dimensional systems. Here, we provide a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Junkai Li , Qingyang Mo , Jian-Hua Jiang , Zhaoju Yang

Following a general protocol of periodically driving static first-order topological phases (supporting surface states) with suitable discrete symmetry breaking Wilson-Dirac masses, here we construct a hierarchy of higher-order Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tanay Nag , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

This paper presents two methods for topological analysis of the complex Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using the quantum geometric tensor: Berry phase and topological data analysis. We demonstrate how both methods can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-15 Eve Cheng , Murray T. Batchelor , Danny Cocks