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Topological insulators are a new class of materials that have attracted significant attention in contemporary condensed matter physics. They are different from the regular insulators and they display novel quantum properties that also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Navketan Batra , Goutam Sheet

We construct a family of chiral symmetry-protected third-order topological insulators by stacking Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains and provide a unified topological characterization by a series of Bott indices. Our approach is informed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Xun-Jiang Luo , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao , Fengcheng Wu

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a tight-binding one-dimensional (1D) lattice with alternating nearest-neighbor amplitudes. Despite its mathematically simple and physically intuitive structure, the SSH model is capable of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Raditya Weda Bomantara

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is the reference model of a one-dimensional topological insulator. Its topological nature can be explained by the quantization of the Zak phase, due to reflection symmetry of the unit cell, or of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Malte Röntgen , Xuelong Chen , Wenlong Gao , Maxim Pyzh , Peter Schmelcher , Vincent Pagneux , Vassos Achilleos , Antonin Coutant

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model on two-dimensional square lattice exhibits a topological phase transition, which is related to the Zak phase determined by bulk band topology. The strong modulation of electron hopping causes nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Daichi Obana , Feng Liu , Katsunori Wakabayashi

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is likely the simplest one-dimensional concept to study non-trivial topological phases and topological excitations. Originally developed to explain the electric conductivity of polyacetylene, it has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 M. Esmann , F. R. Lamberti , A. Lemaitre , N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model serves as a canonical example of a one-dimensional topological insulator, yet its behavior under more complex, realistic conditions remains a fertile ground for research. This paper presents a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Souvik Ghosh , Sayak Roy

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which captures the most striking transport properties of the conductive organic polymer $trans$-polyacetylene, provides perhaps the most basic model system supporting topological excitations. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-12 Eric J. Meier , Fangzhao Alex An , Bryce Gadway

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a paradigmatic one-dimensional (1-D) system that exhibits a non-trivial band topology. In this paper, we foreground a new scheme involving a 1-D chain of $2N+1$ Bosonic modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a prototype model in the field of topological condensed matter physics, and the existence and characteristics of its topological edge states are crucial for revealing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Weibo Xu

A non-Hermitian topological insulator with real spectrum is interesting in the theory of non-Hermitian extension of topological systems. We find an experimentally realizable example of a two dimensional non-Hermitian topological insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 C. Yuce , H. Ramezani

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains are paradigmatic examples of 1D topological insulators hosting zero-energy edge modes when the bulk of the system has a non-zero topological winding invariant. Recently, high-harmonic spectroscopy has been…

We investigate the edge states and the topological phase transitions in a class of tight binding lattices in one dimension where a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model exists in disguise. The unit cells of such lattices may have an arbitrarily…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-07 Subhajyoti Bid , Arunava Chakrabarti

Geared as an invitation for undergraduates, beginning graduate students, we present a pedagogical introduction to one-dimensional topological phases -- in particular the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. In the process, we delve upon ideas of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anantha Hegde , Adarsh Kumar , Adhip Agarwala , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

In this work, we develop a systematical approach of constructing and classifying the model Hamiltonians for two-dimensional (2D) higher-order topological phase with corner zero energy states (CZESs). Our approach is based on the direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Chao-Xing Liu , Xin Liu

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a finite one-dimensional dimer lattice with first-neighbour hoppings populated by non-interacting electrons. In this work we study a generalization of the SSH model including longer-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Beatriz Pérez-González , Miguel Bello , Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a one-dimensional $Z_{2}$ topological insulator, which has two topological distinct phases corresponding to two different dimerizations. When spin-orbit coupling is introduced into the SSH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

The discrete Hamiltonian of Su, Schrieffer and Heeger (SSH) is a well-known one-dimensional translation-invariant model in condensed matter physics. The model consists of two atoms per unit cell and describes in-cell and out-of-cell…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model perhaps is the easiest and the most basic model for topological excitations. Many variations and extensions of the SSH model have been proposed and explored to better understand both fundamental and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-01 Dizhou Xie , Wei Gou , Teng Xiao , Bryce Gadway , Bo Yan

We study the interplay of spontaneous symmetry breaking and topological properties in interacting one-dimensional models. We solve these models using bozonization and identify topologically non-trivial phases by counting the additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Polina Matveeva , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr
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