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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

Symmetry-protected topological phases of matter, characterized by non-trivial band topology, are spectrally gapped and show non-trivial boundary phenomena. Here, we show that scattering states when interjected by an array of periodically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Rahul Singh , Ritajit Kundu , Arijit Kundu , Adhip Agarwala

We analyze a quantized pumping in a nonlinear non-Hermitian photonic system with nonadiabatic driving. The photonic system is made of a waveguide array, where the distances between adjacent waveguides are modulated. It is described by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Motohiko Ezawa , Natsuko Ishida , Yasutomo Ota , Satoshi Iwamoto

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

Quantized charge pumping is a robust adiabatic phenomenon uniquely existing in topologically nontrivial systems. Such topological pumping not only brings fundamental insights to the evolution of states under the protection of topology but…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Ze-Guo Chen , Weiyuan Tang , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Guancong Ma

A topological 'Thouless' pump represents the quantised motion of particles in response to a slow, cyclic modulation of external control parameters. The Thouless pump, like the quantum Hall effect, is of fundamental interest in physics…

Quantized dynamics is essential for natural processes and technological applications alike. The work of Thouless on quantized particle transport in slowly varying potentials (Thouless pumping) has played a key role in understanding that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Zlata Fedorova , Haixin Qiu , Stefan Linden , Johann Kroha

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

Topological quantum pumps are topologically equivalent to the quantum Hall state: In these systems, the charge pumped during each pumping cycle is quantized and coincides with the Chern invariant. However, differently from quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro

We show that a topological pump in a one-dimensional (1D) insulator can induce a strictly quantized transport in an auxiliary chain of non-interacting fermions weakly coupled to the first. The transported charge is determined by an integer…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-21 Lukas Wawer , Rui Li , Michael Fleischhauer

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

A topological charge pump [1] transfers charge in a quantized fashion. The quantization is stable against the detailed form of the pumping protocols and external noises and shares the same topological origin as the quantum Hall effect. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-11 Lei Wang , Matthias Troyer , Xi Dai

Thouless pumping is a paradigmatic example of topologically protected, directed transport in linear systems. Recent extensions to nonlinear pumps often overlook the need to reassess the conventional framework of linear topology. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Markus Bestler , Oded Zilberberg

Experiments with bosonic atoms in optical superlattices allow for the interesting possibility to study the adiabatic quantized pumping of bosonic atoms in the presence of interactions. We investigate this exotic phenomenon for bound bosonic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-24 Sebastian Greschner , Suman Mondal , Tapan Mishra

A gas of electrons in a one-dimensional periodic potential can be transported even in the absence of a voltage bias if the potential is modulated slowly and periodically in time. Remarkably, the transferred charge per cycle is only…

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…

The robustness of topological properties, such as quantized currents, generally depends on the existence of gaps surrounding the relevant energy levels or on symmetry-forbidden transitions. Here, we observe quantized currents that survive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Emmanuel Gottlob , Dan S. Borgnia , Robert-Jan Slager , Ulrich Schneider

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…

Thouless pumping is a transport phenomenon where a periodically varying Hamiltonian can transfer a quantized amount of charge when the time-dependence of the Hamiltonian is quasi-adiabatic. Past proposals to speed up this process involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Joshua Chiel , Christopher Jarzynski , Jay Sau

Controlled charge pumping in an AlGaAs/GaAs gated nanowire by single-parameter modulation is studied experimentally and theoretically. Transfer of integral multiples of the elementary charge per modulation cycle is clearly demonstrated. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-15 B. Kaestner , V. Kashcheyevs , S. Amakawa , L. Li , M. D. Blumenthal , T. J. B. M. Janssen , G. Hein , K. Pierz , T. Weimann , U. Siegner , H. W. Schumacher