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Floquet topological insulators are topological phases of matter generated by the application of time-periodic perturbations on otherwise conventional insulators. We demonstrate that spatial variations in the time-periodic potential lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-02 Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan , Daniel Podolsky

In nonlinear topological systems, edge solitons either originate from linear topological edge modes or emerge as nonlinearity-induced localized states without topological protection. While electric circuits (ECs) provide a platform for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-26 Rujiang Li , Xiangyu Kong , Wencai Wang , Yixi Wang , Yongtao Jia , Huibin Tao , Pengfei Li , Ying Liu , Boris A. Malomed

Non-Abelian topological insulators are characterized by matrix-valued, non-commuting topological charges with regard to more than one energy gap. Their descriptions go beyond the conventional topological band theory, in which an additive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

We address the formation of topological edge solitons in rotating Su-Schrieffer-Heeger waveguide arrays. The linear spectrum of the non-rotating topological array is characterized by the presence of topological gap with two edge states…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-28 Sergey K. Ivanov , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Recently, effects of nonlinearity on topologically nontrivial systems have attracted attention and the stability of topologically protected edge states has been studied for a quantum walk with nonlinear effects, which is akin to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Ken Mochizuki , Norio Kawakami , Hideaki Obuse

We address the formation of \{chi}(2) topological edge solitons emerging in topologically nontrivial phase in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) waveguide arrays. We consider edge solitons, whose fundamental frequency (FF) component belongs to the…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-11 Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Photonic Floquet lattices provide an excellent platform for manipulating different topologically protect-ed edge states. However, anti-chiral edge states have not been discussed much in Floquet lattices. Here, we propose a waveguide…

We consider an array of straight nonlinear waveguides constituting a two-dimensional square lattice, with a few central layers tilted with respect to the rest of the structure. It is shown that such configuration represents a line defect,…

Nonequilibrium Floquet topological phases due to periodic driving are known to exhibit rich and interesting features with no static analogs. Various known topological invariants usually proposed to characterize static topological systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Muhammad Umer , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

Exotic topological states of matter such as Floquet topological insulator or Floquet Weyl semimetal can be induced by periodic driving. This work proposes a Floquet semimetal with Floquet-band holonomy. That is, the system is gapless, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Longwen Zhou , Chong Chen , Jiangbin Gong

The possibility of attaining chiral edge modes under periodic driving has spurred tremendous attention, both theoretically and experimentally, especially in light of anomalous Floquet topological phases that feature vanishing Chern numbers…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-04 Miguel F. Martínez , F. Nur Ünal

We consider asymmetric and symmetric dimerized two-leg ladders, comprising of four different lattice points per unit cell, illuminated by circularly polarized light. In the asymmetric dimerized ladder case, rungs are not perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Milad Jangjan , Mir Vahid Hosseini

Time-periodic modulation of a static system is a powerful method for realizing robust unidirectional topological states. So far, all such realizations have been based on interactions among $s$ orbitals, without incorporating inter-orbital…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Gayathry Rajeevan , Sebabrata Mukherjee

Floquet states of periodically driven systems could exhibit rich topological properties. Many of them are absent in their static counterparts. One such example is the chiral edge states in anomalous Floquet topological insulators, whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

Topological phases of matter span a wide area of research shaping fundamental pursuits and offering promise for future applications. While a significant fraction of topological materials has been characterized using symmetry requirements of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Robert-Jan Slager , Adrien Bouhon , F. Nur Ünal

Time-periodic (Floquet) topological phases of matter exhibit bulk-edge relationships that are more complex than static topological insulators and superconductors. Finding the edge modes unique to driven systems usually requires numerics.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-28 Indubala I. Satija , Erhai Zhao

Topological theories have established a new set of rules that govern the transport properties in a wide variety of wave-mechanical settings. In a marked departure from the established approaches that induce Floquet topological phases by…

Topologically protected edge states exactly at topological phase boundaries challenge the conventional belief that topological states must be associated with a bulk energy gap. Because periodically driven (Floquet) systems host unusually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-26 Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong , Xue-Jia Yu

Topological phases characterized by non-Abelian charges have garnered increasing attention recently. Although Floquet (periodic-driving) higher-order topological phases have been explored at the single-particle level, the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Yujie Zhou , Changsen Li , Xiumei Wang , Xingping Zhou

We consider the differential conductance of a periodically driven system connected to infinite electrodes. We focus on the situation where the dissipation occurs predominantly in these electrodes. Using analytical arguments and a detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Michel Fruchart , Pierre Delplace , Joseph Weston , Xavier Waintal , David Carpentier