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The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is central to band topology in condensed matter physics, which allows us to understand and design distinct topological states. In this work, we find another mechanism to analogize the SSH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Yuanjun Jin , XingYu Yue , Yong Xu , Xiang-Long Yu , Guoqing Chang

We propose an implementation of a generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model based on optomechanical arrays. The topological properties of the generalized SSH model depend on the effective optomechanical interactions enhanced by strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Xun-Wei Xu , Yan-Jun Zhao , Hui Wang , Ai-Xi Chen , Yu-xi Liu

We study the interplay of spontaneous symmetry breaking and topological properties in interacting one-dimensional models. We solve these models using bozonization and identify topologically non-trivial phases by counting the additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Polina Matveeva , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr

We investigate the quantum phase transition of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model by inspecting the two-site entanglements in the ground state. It is shown that the topological phase transition of the SSH model is signified by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Jaeyoon Cho , Kun Woo Kim

A quench in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice across the topological boundary initialized with an edge state leads to transport across the chain. We consider such a quench in an effective model in which non-Hermitian components are embedded in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Anirban Ghosh , Andy Martin

The interacting SSH model provides an ideal ground to study the interplay between topologically insulating phases and electron-electron interactions. We study the polarization density as a topological invariant and provide an analytic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-19 E. Di Salvo , A. Moustaj , C. Xu , L. Fritz , A. K. Mitchell , C. Morais Smith , D. Schuricht

We investigate interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains with two- and three-site unit cells using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations. By selecting appropriate filling fractions and sweeping across interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-18 Yuxiao Hang , Stephan Haas

We demonstrate the possibility of engineering the topological band structure of a plasmonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain through the interaction with its electromagnetic environment. We find that the long-range interaction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Florian Herz , Alireza Naeimi , Svend-Age Biehs

It is well known that the topology of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger(SSH) model, which belongs to AIII symmetry class, is protected by chiral symmetry. In this article, instead of chiral symmetry, we constrain the bulk Hamiltonian by a magnetic point…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Chi-Ho Cheung , Jinyu Zou

A remarkable feature of the trimer Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH3) model is that it supports localized edge states. Although Zak's phase remains quantized for the case of a mirror-symmetric chain, it is known that it fails to take integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Adamantios Anastasiadis , Georgios Styliaris , Rajesh Chaunsali , Georgios Theocharis , Fotios K. Diakonos

A non-Hermitian topological insulator with real spectrum is interesting in the theory of non-Hermitian extension of topological systems. We find an experimentally realizable example of a two dimensional non-Hermitian topological insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 C. Yuce , H. Ramezani

We study the emergence and disappearance of defect states in the complex Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (cSSH) model, a non-Hermitian one-dimensional lattice model containing gain and loss on alternating sites. Previous studies of this model have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Li-Jun Lang , You Wang , Hailong Wang , Y. D. Chong

The hybrid atoms-cell site entanglement in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) topological insulator with first and second neighbor hopping interaction in space representation of finite chains is analyzed. The geometric phase is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Francisco A. Domínguez-Serna , F. Rojas

Non-Hermiticity alters topology with the presence of non-Hermitian factors in topological systems. Most existing non-Hermitian topological systems derive their topological phases from Hermitian components, that is, the gain and loss of the…

We consider an extended trimer Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) tight-binding Hamiltonian keeping up to next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping terms and on-site potential energy. The Bloch Hamiltonian can be expressed in terms of all the eight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Sonu Verma , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

The Su, Schrieffer and Heeger (SSH) model, describing the soliton excitations in polyacetylene due to the formation of antiphase domain walls (DW) from the alternating bond pattern, has served as a paradigmatic example of one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Jinwoong Kim , Cheng-Yi Huang , Hsin Lin , David Vanderbilt , Nicholas Kioussis

We study the ground-state phase diagram of an interacting staggered Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) ladder in the vicinity of the Gaussian quantum critical point. The corresponding effective field theory is a double-frequency sine-Gordon (DSG)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-15 A. A. Nersesyan

The exploration of topology in natural materials and metamaterials has garnered significant attention. Notably, the one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, assessed through tight-binding…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-19 Langlang Xiong , Xunya Jiang , Guangwei Hu

The canonical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is one of the basic geometries that have spurred significant interest in topologically nontrivial bandgap modes with robust properties. Here, we show that the inclusion of suitable third-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Yakir Hadad , Alexander B. Khanikaev , Andrea Alu

Topological physics provides novel insights for designing functional photonic devices, such as magnetic-free optical diodes, which are important in optical engineering and quantum information processing. Past efforts mostly focus on the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-15 Xiao Liu , Jiefei Wang , Ruosong Mao , Huizhu Hu , Shi-Yao Zhu , Xingqi Xu , Han Cai , Da-Wei Wang