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An important aspect in categorizing topological phases is whether the system is spinless or spinful, given that these classes exhibit distinct symmetry algebras, leading to disparate topological classifications. By utilizing the projective…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiaofan Zhou , Suotang Jia , Jian-Song Pan

We study theoretically the transport of the one-dimensional single-channel interacting electron gas through a strong potential barrier in the parameter regime where the spin sector of the low-energy Luttinger liquid theory is gapped by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-07 N. Kainaris , S. T. Carr , A. D. Mirlin

We present analysis of a single channel interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit coupling breaks the spin-rotational symmetry from SU(2) to U(1) and breaks inversion symmetry. The low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Nikolaos Kainaris , Sam T. Carr

When adiabatically varied in time, certain one-dimensional band insulators allow for the quantized noiseless pumping of spin even in the presence of strong spin orbit scattering. These spin pumps are closely related to the quantum spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Dganit Meidan , Tobias Micklitz , Piet W. Brouwer

We consider thermoelectric transport properties of the edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator in a double quantum point contact geometry coupled to two thermally biased reservoirs. Both spin-preserving and spin-flipping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Flavio Ronetti , Luca Vannucci , Giacomo Dolcetto , Matteo Carrega , Maura Sassetti

A topological pump enables robust transport of quantized particles when the system parameters are varied in a cyclic process. In previous studies, topological pump was achieved inhomogeneous systems guaranteed by a topological invariant of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Bi-Ye Xie , Oubo You , Shuang Zhang

We describe a class of parity- and time-reversal-invariant topological states of matter which can arise in correlated electron systems in 2+1-dimensions. These states are characterized by particle-like excitations exhibiting exotic braiding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak , Kirill Shtengel , Kevin Walker , Zhenghan Wang

We study a nonrelativistic system made of two quantum particles constrained to move on a line and a spin located at a fixed point of the line. Initially the two particles are in a maximally entangled state and the spin is down. The first…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Riccardo Adami , Luigi Barletti , Alessandro Teta

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

Photonic systems provide a highly tunable platform for emulating quantum Hall physics. This tunability enables probing of the interplay between strong disorder and robust topological transport that remains difficult to access in solid-state…

Topological materials exhibit protected edge modes that have been proposed for applications in for example spintronics and quantum computation. While a number of such systems exist, it would be desirable to be able to test theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-15 Robert Drost , Teemu Ojanen , Ari Harju , Peter Liljeroth

Quantized charge pumping in one-dimensional chiral wires has been widely studied in the context of topological physics in a (1+1)-dimensional synthetic space, yet the role of orbital and spin degrees of freedom in such topological pumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Esmaeil Taghizadeh Sisakht , Uiseok Jeong , Xiao jiang , Jinseok Oh , Yizhou Liu , Binghai Yan , Noejung Park

Topological quantum pumps are topologically equivalent to the quantum Hall state: In these systems, the charge pumped during each pumping cycle is quantized and coincides with the Chern invariant. However, differently from quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro

We consider a one-dimensional, time-reversal-invariant system with attractive interactions and spin-orbit coupling. Such a system is gapless due to the strong quantum fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. However, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anna Keselman , Erez Berg

Topological photonic systems offer light transport that is robust against defects and disorder, promising a new generation of chip-scale photonic devices and facilitating energy-efficient on-chip information routing and processing. However,…

Quantum systems are often described by parameter-dependent Hamiltonians. Points in parameter space where two levels are degenerate can carry a topological charge. Here we theoretically study an interacting two-spin system where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 György Frank , Dániel Varjas , Péter Vrana , Gergő Pintér , András Pályi

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…

We propose an experimental scheme to simulate and detect the properties of time-reversal invariant topological insulators, using cold atoms trapped in one-dimensional bichromatic optical lattices. This system is described by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-30 Feng Mei , Shi-Liang Zhu , Zhi-Ming Zhang , C. H. Oh , N. Goldman

It is proposed that a lattice, with constituent masses and spring constants, may be considered as a model system for topological matter. For instance, a relative variation of the inter- and intra-unit cell spring constants can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Yun Zhou , Prabhakar Bandaru , Daniel Sievenpiper

Topological pumping of ultracold atomic gases has recently been demonstrated in two experiments (Nat. Phys. 12, 296; 12, 350 (2016)). Here we study the topological pumping of a single magnon in a dynamically controlled spin-dependent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-18 Feng Mei , Gang Chen , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia