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Predictive theory to geometrically engineer devices and materials in continuum systems to have desired topological-like effects is developed here by bridging the gap between quantum and continuum mechanical descriptions. A platonic crystal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Mehul Makwana , Richard Craster

A two-dimensional periodically driven (Floquet) system with zero winding number in the absence of time-reversal symmetry is usually considered topologically trivial. Here, we study the dynamics of a Gaussian wave packet placed at the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-06 Xin-Xin Yang , Kai-Ye Shi , F. Nur Ünal , Wei Zhang

We numerically verify and analytically prove a winding number invariant that correctly predicts the number of edge states in one-dimensional, nearest-neighbor (between unit cells), two-band models with any complex couplings and open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Janet Zhong , Heming Wang , Alexander N Poddubny , Shanhui Fan

We investigate the topological properties of the bond order wave phase arising in the extended Fermi-Hubbard model. In particular, we uncover a topological sector, which remained elusive in previous finite-size numerical studies due to…

Band formation in periodic media is a central topic in undergraduate solid-state physics, typically introduced through Bloch's theorem as an eigenvalue problem in reciprocal space for infinitely periodic systems. While mathematically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Nishant Kashyap , Amit Tanwar , Vivek T. Ramamoorthy , Pragati Ashdhir

We outline an approach to endow a plain vanilla material with topological properties by creating topological bands in stacks of manifestly nontopological atomically thin materials. The approach is illustrated with a model system comprised…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Justin C. W. Song , Polnop Samutpraphoot , Leonid S. Levitov

We present a network-based modal analysis technique that identifies key dynamical paths along which perturbations amplify over a time-varying base flow. This analysis is built upon the Katz centrality, which reveals the flow structures that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-03 Chi-An Yeh , Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena , Kunihiko Taira

Edge states protected by bulk topology of photonic crystals show robustness against short-range disorder, making robust information transfer possible. Here, topological photonic crystals under long-range deformations are investigated.…

Topologically ordered states are characterized by topological quantities like the Hall conductance, topological entanglement entropy, and chiral central charge. Techniques based on the modular Hamiltonian have recently been developed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-28 Sandeep Sharma , Ajit C. Balram

We explore the band structure and ballistic electron transport in twisted bilayer $\textrm{MoS}_2$ using Density Functional Theory (DFT). The sphagetti like bands are unfolded to generate band structures in the primitive unit cell of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-21 Yaohua Tan , Fan Chen , Avik Ghosh

In dynamics and vibrations, the concept of bandwidth for linear time-invariant systems is widely recognized as a measure of the dispersion of frequency content around resonance. Similarly, the time constant is associated with the rate of…

In shallow-water waveguides a propagating field can be decomposed over three kinds of modes: the propagating modes, the radiating modes and the evanescent modes. In this paper we consider the propagation of a wave in a randomly perturbed…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-01 Christophe Gomez

Topological effects manifest in a wide range of physical systems, such as solid crystals, acoustic waves, photonic materials and cold atoms. These effects are characterized by `topological invariants' which are typically integer-valued, and…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 Sashank Kaushik Sridhar , Sayan Ghosh , Avik Dutt

Topological boundary modes utilizing valley mode waveguides have opened opportunities in, for instance, the design of high transmission waveguides with tolerance to geometrical defects and sharp bends. Applications of these waveguides…

We study long range propagation of electromagnetic waves in random waveguides with rectangular cross-section and perfectly conducting boundaries. The waveguide is filled with an isotropic linear dielectric material, with randomly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea

A linear theory of whistler wave is developed wihtin the paradigm of a two dimensional incompressible electron magnetohydrodynamics model. Exact analytic wave solutions are obtained for a small amplitude whistler wave that exhibit magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dastgeer Shaikh

Inertia-gravity mode and Rossby mode dispersion properties are examined for discretisations of the linearized rotating shallow-water equations using the $P1_{DG}$-$P2$ finite element pair on arbitrary triangulations in planar geometry. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 C. J. Cotter

Using group theoretic and topological concepts, together with tunneling phenomena, we geometrically design interfacial wave networks that contain splitters which partition energy in 2, 3, 4 or 5 directions. This enriches the valleytronics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Mehul Makwana , Richard Craster

Robust states emerging at the boundary of a system constitute a hallmark for topological band structures. Other than in closed systems, topologically protected states can occur even in systems with a trivial band structure, if exposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Helene Wetter , Michael Fleischhauer , Stefan Linden , Julian Schmitt

This work presents a purely data-driven, wavelet-based framework for modal identification and reduced-order modeling of mechanical systems with assumed linear dynamics characterized by closely spaced modes with classical or non-classical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Anargyros Michaloliakos , Benjamin J. Chang , Lawrence A. Bergman , Alexander F. Vakakis