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We present a geometric formalism for the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of a small system coupled to external isothermal reservoirs as an application of Thouless pumping, where the electrochemical potentials of the reservoirs and parameters…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-23 Ryosuke Yoshii , Hisao Hayakawa

One of the hallmarks of topological systems is the robust quantization of particle transport. It is the origin of the integer-valued quantum Hall conductivity and a potential tool for quantum information technology. Recent experiments on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Julius Bohm , Hugo Gerlitz , Christina Jörg , Michael Fleischhauer

The transport properties of gapless edge modes at boundaries between topologically distinct domains are of fundamental and technological importance. Therefore, it is crucial to gain a better understanding of topological edge states and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-07 Zijie Zhu , Marius Gächter , Anne-Sophie Walter , Konrad Viebahn , Tilman Esslinger

Particle-particle interaction provides a new degree of freedom to induce novel topological phenomena. Here, we propose to use spatiotemporal modulation of interaction to realize topological pumping without single-particle counterpart.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Boning Huang , Yongguan Ke , Wenjie Liu , Chaohong Lee

In Thouless pumping, although non-flat band has no effects on the quantization of particle transport, it induces wave-packet dispersion which hinders the practical applications of Thouless pumping. Indeed, we find that the dispersion mainly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Shi Hu , Yongguan Ke , Yuangang Deng , Chaohong Lee

The transfer of conserved charges through insulating matter via smooth deformations of the Hamiltonian is known as quantum adiabatic, or Thouless, pumping. Central to this phenomenon are Hamiltonians whose insulating gap is controlled by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Pedro L. S. Lopes , Pouyan Ghaemi , Shinsei Ryu , Taylor L. Hughes

We show how to implement topological or Thouless pumping of interacting photons in one dimensional nonlinear resonator arrays, by simply modulating the frequency of the resonators periodically in space and time. The interplay between…

We propose and analyze theoretically a one-dimensional solid-state electronic setup that operates as a topological charge pump in the complete absence of superimposed oscillating local voltages. The system consists of a semiconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Sudhakar Pandey , Niccolo' Scopigno , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

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

We introduce a novel frequency-dependent incoherent pump scheme with a square-shaped spectrum as a way to study strongly correlated photons in arrays of coupled nonlinear resonators. This scheme can be implemented via a reservoir of…

Nonlinear interaction enables topological phenomena impossible in linear systems. A paradigm is nonlinear Thouless pump, where the transport of solitons can be topologically quantized even when band occupation is nonuniform. Such nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-01 Xuzhen Cao , Xiaolin Li , Liang Bai , Zhaoxin Liang , Li-Chen Zhao , Ying Hu

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

We investigate the effect of inter-particle interaction on the quantized Thouless pump in the bosonic quasiperiodic Aubry-Andr{\'e} model and find that the quantization of the pumped charge breaks down already for weak interactions.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-27 Suman Mondal , Emmanuel Gottlob , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner , Ulrich Schneider

Adiabatic cyclic modulation of a one-dimensional periodic potential will result in quantized charge transport, which is termed the Thouless pump. In contrast to the original Thouless pump restricted by the topology of the energy band, here…

Thouless pumps are topologically nontrivial states of matter with quantized charge transport, which can be realized in atomic gases loaded into an optical lattice. This topological state is analogous to the quantum Hall state. However,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-04 Pasquale Marra , Muneto Nitta

We propose a two-dimensional (2D) version of Thouless pumping that can be realized by using ultracold atoms in optical lattices. To be specific, we consider a 2D square lattice tight-binding model with an obliquely introduced superlattice.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-03 Fuyuki Matsuda , Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

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

The interplay between nonlinear and topological physics has led to intriguing emergent phenomena, such as quantized and fractionally quantized Thouless pumping of solitons dictated by the topological invariants of the underlying band…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ankitkumar Maisuriya , Siddhi Mali , Sunil Mittal

Topology can imbue lattice systems with special properties, notably the presence of robust eigenstates living at their boundary. Through dimensional reduction, the robust bulk band topology of, e.g., the integer quantum Hall system can be…

Thouless charge pumps are quantum mechanical devices whose operation relies on topology. They provide the means for transporting quantum matter in space lattices with a single quantum precision. Contrasting space crystals that spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tapio Simula , Niels Kjærgaard , Tilman Pfau