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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

Thouless pumping represents a powerful concept to probe quantized topological invariants in quantum systems. We explore this mechanism in a generalized Rice-Mele Fermi-Hubbard model characterized by the presence of competing onsite and…

We address the nature of the Thouless charge-pumping for a non-Hermitian (NH) generalization of the one-dimensional (1d) Rice-Mele model, considering a variety which allows closed-form analytical solutions for the eigensystems. The two-band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Ipsita Mandal

Based on the Floquet scattering theory, we analytically investigate the topological spin pumping for an exactly solvable model. Floquet spin Chern numbers are introduced to characterize the periodically time-dependent system. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 W. Y. Deng , W. Luo , H. Geng , M. N. Chen , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

We investigate adiabatic charge pumping in disordered system in one dimension with open and closed boundary conditions. In contrast to the Thouless charge pumping, the system has no gap even though all the states are localized, i.e., strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Chyh-Hong Chern , Shigeki Onoda , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

Thouless charge pump enables a quantized transport of charge through an adiabatic evolution of the Hamiltonian exhibiting topological phase. While this charge pumping is known to be robust against the presence of weak disorder in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-29 Ashirbad Padhan , Tapan Mishra

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

We study a Thouless pump realized with an elastically \textit{deformable quantum dot} whose center of mass follows a non-linear stochastic dynamics. The interplay of noise, non-linear effects, dissipation and interaction with an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 C. A. Perroni , F. Romeo , A. Nocera , V. Marigliano Ramaglia , R. Citro , V. Cataudella

We investigate the possibility of realizing a disorder-induced topological Floquet spectrum in two-dimensional periodically-driven systems. Such a state would be a dynamical realization of the topological Anderson insulator. We establish…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-12 Paraj Titum , Netanel H. Lindner , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Gil Refael

We study soliton Thouless pumping in an extended diagonal Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model with on-site nonlinearities and inter-site nonlinearities. We show that the inter-site nonlinearities can make solitons acquire anomalous transport…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-06 Tao Jiang , Li-Chen Zhao

We study Anderson localization in a discrete-time quantum map dynamics in one dimension with nearest-neighbor hopping strength $\theta$ and quasienergies located on the unit circle. We demonstrate that strong disorder in a local phase field…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-28 Ihor Vakulchyk , Sergej Flach

A Thouless pump transports an integer amount of charge when pumping adiabatically around a singularity. We study the splitting of such a critical point into two separate critical points by adding a Hubbard interaction. Furthermore, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-02 E. Bertok , F. Heidrich-Meisner , A. A. Aligia

We investigate the dynamics of nonlinear optical Thouless pumps in the presence of disorder, using optical waveguide arrays. It was previously known that the displacement of solitons in Thouless pumps is quantized and may exhibit integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Abhijit P. Chaudhari , Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

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

The anomalous Floquet Anderson insulator (AFAI) has been theoretically predicted in step-wise periodically driven models, but its stability under more general driving protocols hasn't been determined. We show that adding disorder to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-11 Arijit Dutta , Efe Sen , Jun-Hui Zheng , Monika Aidelsburger , Walter Hofstetter

Thouless pumps are time-periodic one-dimensional systems that capture the physics of the two-dimensional quantum Hall effect via the quantized pumping of particles under adiabatic modulation. Recent work in photonics has shown that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-21 Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Anderson localization in two-dimensional topological insulators takes place via the so-called levitation and pair annihilation process. As disorder is increased, extended bulk states carrying opposite topological invariants move towards…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Hui Liu , Ion Cosma Fulga , Janos K. Asboth

Disorder in a 1D quantum lattice induces Anderson localization of the eigenstates and drastically alters transport properties of the lattice. In the original Anderson model, the addition of a periodic driving increases, in a certain range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-17 O. S. Vershinina , E. A. Kozinov , T. V. Laptyeva , S. V. Denisov , M. V. Ivanchenko

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

As part of condensed-matter physics, the field of Anderson localization concerns the study of conductance of electrons in a random medium. We summarize and explain the results obtained in "A new numerical approach to Anderson…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 Constanze Liaw