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Thouless pumping with nontrivial topological phases provides a powerful means for the manipulation of matter waves in one-dimensional lattice systems. The band topology is revealed by the quantization of pumped charge. In the context of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-30 Yan-Jue Lv , Yang Peng , Yong-Kai Liu , Yi Zheng

The notion of topological (Thouless) pumping in topological phases is traditionally associated with Laughlin's pump argument for the quantization of the Hall conductance in two-dimensional (2D) quantum Hall systems. It relies on magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Charles-Edouard Bardyn , Michele Filippone , Thierry Giamarchi

Adiabatic and periodic variation of the lattice parameters can make it possible to transport charge through a system even without net external electric or magnetic fields, known as Thouless charge pumping. The amount of charge pumped in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-17 Suman Mondal , Eric Bertok , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

Topological phases are robust against weak perturbations, but break down when disorder becomes sufficiently strong. However, moderate disorder can also induce topologically nontrivial phases. Thouless pumping, as a (1+1)D counterpart of the…

Motivated by the observation of the breakdown of quantization for the Thouless pump in the presence of strong interaction by ETH [Walter et. al. Nat. Phys. 19, 1471 (2023), Viebahn et. al. arXiv:2308.03756], we study the interplay of strong…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-21 Hei Lam , Yangqian Yan

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

We study one-dimensional topological models with dimerization and trimerization and show that these models can be generated using interaction or optical superlattice. The topological properties of these models are demonstrated by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Huaiming Guo

We propose a realistic cold-atom quantum setting where nontrivial energy-band topology induces non-reciprocal pumping. This is an intriguing non-Hermitian phenomenon that illustrates how topology, when assisted with atom loss, can act as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Jiangbin Gong

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

The dynamics of solitons driven in a nonlinear Thouless pump and its connection with the system's topology were recently explored for both weak and strong nonlinear strength. This work uncovers the fate of nonlinear Thouless pumping in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-09-12 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

Thouless pump with quantized transports is topologically robust against small perturbations and disorders, while breaks down under sufficiently strong disorders. Here we propose counter-intuitive topological pumps induced by disorders in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-29 Yi-Piao Wu , Ling-Zhi Tang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

Recent advancements in fabrication techniques have enabled unprecedented clean interfaces and gate tunability in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. Inspired by these developments, we propose protocols to realize Thouless quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Stavros Athanasiou , Ida E. Nielsen , Matteo M. Wauters , Michele Burrello

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

We explore adiabatic pumping in the presence of periodic drive, finding a new phase in which the topologically quantized pumped quantity is energy rather than charge. The topological invariant is given by the winding number of the…

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

Recent studies indicated that helical organic molecules, such as DNA and $\alpha$-helical protein, can behave as Thouless quantum pumps when a rotating electric field is applied perpendicularly to their helical axes. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ai-Min Guo , Pei-Jia Hu , Xiao-Hui Gao , Tie-Feng Fang , Qing-Feng Sun

By means of time-dependent density matrix renormalization group calculations we study topological quantum pumping in a strongly interacting system. The system under consideration is described by the Hamiltonian of a one-dimensional extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-26 Davide Rossini , Marco Gibertini , Vittorio Giovannetti , Rosario Fazio

We study Thouless pumps, i.e., adiabatic topological transport, in an interacting spin chain described by the dimerized XXZ Hamiltonian. In the noninteracting case, quantized Thouless pumps can only occur when a topological singularity is…

Quantization of particle transport lies at the heart of topological physics. In Thouless pumps - dimensionally reduced versions of the integer quantum Hall effect - quantization is dictated by the integer winding of single-band Wannier…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-28 Marius Jürgensen , Jacob Steiner , Gil Refael , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Introduced by David Thouless in 1983, Thouless pumping exemplifies topological properties in topological systems, where the transported charge is quantized by the Chern number. Recently, returning Thouless pumping was theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Zheyu Cheng , Sijie Yue , Yang Long , Wentao Xie , Zixuan Yu , Hau Tian Teo , Y. X. Zhao , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang