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Topological pumping and duality transformations are paradigmatic concepts in condensed matter and statistical mechanics. In this paper, we extend the concept of topological pumping of particles to topological pumping of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 T. Haug , L. Amico , L. -C. Kwek , W. J. Munro , V. M. Bastidas

The transport of energy through 1-dimensional (1D) waveguiding channels can be affected by sub-wavelength disorder, resulting in undesirable localization and backscattering phenomena. However, quantized disorder-resilient transport is…

It has been proposed that disorder may lead to a new type of topological insulator, called topological Anderson insulator (TAI). Here we examine the physical origin of this phenomenon. We calculate the topological invariants and density of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Yan-Yang Zhang , Rui-Lin Chu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

Adiabatic cyclic modulation of a one-dimensional periodic potential will result in quantized charge transport, which is termed the Thouless pump. In contrast to the original Thouless pump restricted by the topology of the energy band, here…

A gas of electrons in a one-dimensional periodic potential can be transported even in the absence of a voltage bias if the potential is modulated slowly and periodically in time. Remarkably, the transferred charge per cycle is only…

The Thouless pump, a cornerstone of topological physics, enables unidirectional quantized wave/particle transport via geometric Berry phase engineering in periodically driven systems. While decades of research have been dedicated to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Qingyang Mo , Shanjun Liang , Xiangke Lan , Jie Zhu , Shuang Zhang

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 interplay between topology and soliton is a central topic in nonlinear topological physics. So far, most studies have been confined to conservative settings. Here, we explore Thouless pumping of dissipative temporal solitons in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-06 Xuzhen Cao , Chunyu Jia , Ying Hu , Zhaoxin Liang

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

Thouless' quantization of adiabatic particle transport permits to associate an integer topological charge with each atom of an electronically gapped material. If these charges are additive and independent of atomic positions, they provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-18 Paolo Pegolo , Federico Grasselli , Stefano Baroni

Thouless pumping enables the transport of particles in a one-dimensional periodic potential if the potential is slowly and periodically modulated in time. The change in the position of particles after each modulation period is quantized and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-23 Ali Emami Kopaei , Krzysztof Giergiel , Krzysztof Sacha

Thouless pump is a one-dimensional dynamic topological effect that stems from the same topological mechanism as the renowned two-dimensional Chern insulators, with one momentum dimension replaced by a time variant evolution parameter. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Oubo You , Shanjun Liang , Biye Xie , Wenlong Gao , Weimin Ye , Jie Zhu , Shuang Zhang

The robustness of topological properties, such as quantized currents, generally depends on the existence of gaps surrounding the relevant energy levels or on symmetry-forbidden transitions. Here, we observe quantized currents that survive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Emmanuel Gottlob , Dan S. Borgnia , Robert-Jan Slager , Ulrich Schneider

More than 30 years ago, Thouless introduced the concept of a topological charge pump that would enable the robust transport of charge through an adiabatic cyclic evolution of the underlying Hamiltonian. In contrast to classical transport,…

Thouless pumping represents a powerful concept to probe quantized topological invariants in quantum systems. We explore this mechanism in a generalized Rice-Mele Fermi-Hubbard model characterized by the presence of competing onsite and…

In this article, we develop a description of topological pumps as slow classical dynamical variables coupled by a quantum system. We discuss the cases of quantum Hall pumps, Thouless pumps, and the more recent Floquet pumps based frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Jacquelin Luneau , Clément Dutreix , Quentin Ficheux , Pierre Delplace , Benoît Douçot , Benjamin Huard , David Carpentier

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

Topological Thouless pumping and Aharonov-Bohm effect are both fundamental effects enabled by the topological properties of the system. Here, we study both effects together: topological pumping of interacting particles through Aharonov-Bohm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Tobias Haug , Rainer Dumke , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Luigi Amico

Quantized charge pumping is a robust adiabatic phenomenon uniquely existing in topologically nontrivial systems. Such topological pumping not only brings fundamental insights to the evolution of states under the protection of topology but…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Ze-Guo Chen , Weiyuan Tang , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Guancong Ma

Recent experiments with ultracold quantum gases have successfully realized integer-quantized topological charge pumping in optical lattices. Motivated by this progress, we study the effects of static disorder on topological Thouless charge…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-03 A. L. C. Hayward , E. Bertok , U. Schneider , F. Heidrich-Meisner