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This study explores the ground-state phase diagram and topological properties of the spinless 1D Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with nearest-neighbor (NN) interactions at quarter filling. We analyze key physical quantities such as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-11 Yan-Xiao Wang , Yin Zhong

Entanglement entropy (EE) provides a powerful probe of quantum phases, yet its role in identifying topological phase transitions in disordered systems remains underexplored. We introduce an exact EE-based framework that captures topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Manish Kumar , Bharadwaj Vedula , Suhas Gangadharaiah , Auditya Sharma

We employ electric circuit networks to study topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems enriched by parity-time symmetry $\mathcal{PT}$ and chiral symmetry anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ ($\mathcal{APT}$). The topological structure…

We investigate a non-Hermitian quantum battery based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattice, charged through a parity-time (PT)-symmetric protocol that alternates gain and loss between the two sublattices. The interplay between lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 A-Long Zhou , Ya-Wen Xiao , Nuo Xu , Li-Li Gao , Long-Jie Li , Hang Zhou , Zi-Min Li , Chuan-Cun Shu

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

Due to the boundary coupling in a finite system, the zero modes of a standard Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model may deviate from exact-zero energy. A recent experiment has shown that by increasing the system size or altering gain or loss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Zhihao Xu , Rong Zhang , Shu Chen , Libin Fu , Yunbo Zhang

We present a modification to the bosonic Kitaev chain that, despite being Hermitian, supports both nonHermitian skin effect and nontrivial topological edge modes in its excitation Hamiltonian. We establish an exact mapping between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Ibsal Assi , J. P. F. LeBlanc , Michael Vogl

We propose and experimentally realize a class of quasi-one-dimensional topological lattices whose unit cells are constructed by coupled multiple identical resonators, with uniform hopping and inversion symmetry. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Jun Li , Yaping Yang , C. M. Hu

The ability to engineer topologically distinct materials opens the possibility of enabling novel phenomena in low-dimensional nano-systems, as well as manufacturing novel quantum devices. One of the simplest examples, the SSH model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Lin Wang , Thomas Luu , Ulf-G. Meißner

In this work, we experimentally report the acoustic realization the two-dimensional (2D) Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in a simple network of air channels. We analytically study the steady state dynamics of the system using a set of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Li-Yang Zheng , Vassos Achilleos , Olivier Richoux , Georgios Theocharis , Vincent Pagneux

We propose two kinds of distinguishing parameter regimes to induce topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) phase in a one dimensional (1D) multi-resonator cavity optomechanical system via modulating the frequencies of both cavity fields and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Lu Qi , Yan Xing , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is the simplest example of a lattice with non-trivial topology. It supports mid-gap topologically protected states, whose energies are unaffected by disorder. We show that photonic multilayer structures…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-09 D. M. Whittaker , R. Ellis

We propose a scheme to investigate the topological phase transition and the topological state transfer based on the small optomechanical lattice under the realistic parameters regime. We find that the optomechanical lattice can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Lu Qi , Guo-Li Wang , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

Periodic driving can induce the emergence of topological pi modes, and their superposition with zero modes leads to two-period dynamics. Introducing long-range couplings enables the realization of larger topological winding numbers, which…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-05 Changsen Li , Yujie Zhou , Xiumei Wang , Xingping Zhou

Strong long-range hoppings up to third nearest neighbors may induce a topological phase transition in one-dimensional chains. Unlike the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, this transition from trivial to topological phase occurs with the emergence…

Topological matter offers opportunities for control of charge and energy flow with implications for chemistry still incompletely understood. In this work, we study an ensemble of adsorbates with an empty frontier level (LUMO) coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Luis Martinez-Gomez

Using Hartree-Fock mean-field approach, we study the role of on-site ($U$) and extended ($V$) Hubbard interactions on the existence and evolution of edge modes in a half-filled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain. We analyze the energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Rahul Samanta , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

It has been proposed recently by some of the authors that the quantum phase transition of a topological insulator like the SSH model may be detected by the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the reduced density matrix. Here we further extend…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Wing Chi Yu , P. D. Sacramento , Yan Chao Li , D. G. Angelakis , Hai-Qing Lin

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain is a prototype example of a symmetry-protected topological insulator. Coupling it non-perturbatively to local thermal environments, either through the intercell or the intracell fermion tunneling elements,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Brett Min , Kartiek Agarwal , Dvira Segal

The effect of spatially modulated interaction on quantum phase transition in one-dimensional interacting spinless fermion system is theoretically investigated by exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group method. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-27 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Da-wei Kang , Liben Li