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A topological pump enables robust transport of quantized particles when the system parameters are varied in a cyclic process. In previous studies, topological pump was achieved inhomogeneous systems guaranteed by a topological invariant of…

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Recent work [M. H. Kolodrubetz et al, PRL 120, 150601] has demonstrated that periodically driven one-dimensional fermionic systems can support quantized energy pumping resulting from an adiabatic modulation of a second parameter. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Frederik Nathan , Rongchun Ge , Snir Gazit , Mark S. Rudner , Michael Kolodrubetz

The active manipulation of topologically protected states represents a pivotal frontier for quantum technologies, offering a unique confluence of topological robustness and precise quantum control. We propose an adiabatic pumping scheme for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yang Peng , Rui-Shan Li , Yan-Jue Lv , Yi Zheng

One of the most fascinating properties of topological phases of matter is their robustness to disorder and imperfections. Although several experimental techniques have been developed to probe the geometric properties of engineered…

The discovery of the quantization of particle transport in adiabatic pumping cycles of periodic structures by Thouless [Phys. Rev. B 27, 6083 (1983)] linked the Chern number, a topological invariant characterizing the quantum Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Jiho Noh , Mohan Wang , Sheng Huang , Kevin P. Chen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Quantum-Hall--Superconductor hybrids have been predicted to exhibit various types of topological order, providing possible platforms for intrinsically fault-tolerant quantum computing. In this paper, we develop a formulation to construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Koji Kudo , Ryota Nakai , Kentaro Nomura

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

We demonstrate nonadiabatic Thouless pumping of electrons in trans-polyacetylene in the framework of Floquet engineering using first-principles theory. We identify the regimes in which the quantized pump is operative with respect to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-16 Ruiyi Zhou , Dillon C. Yost , Yosuke Kanai

The adiabatic topological pumping is proposed by periodically modulating a semiconductor nanowire double-quantum-dot chain. We demonstrate that the quantized charge transport can be achieved by a nontrivial modulation of the quantum-dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. Xu

The simulation of synthetic dimensions by manipulating internal states of atoms and molecules has opened the door to investigate regimes outside those of more traditional quantum many-body platforms. Highly excited Rydberg states of atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Martin Trautmann , Inti Sodemann Villadiego , Johannes Deiglmayr

Thouless pumping with nontrivial topological phases provides a powerful means for the manipulation of matter waves in one-dimensional lattice systems. The band topology is revealed by the quantization of pumped charge. In the context of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-30 Yan-Jue Lv , Yang Peng , Yong-Kai Liu , Yi Zheng

Non-Abelian gauge symmetries are cornerstones of modern theoretical physics, underlying fundamental interactions and the geometric structure of quantum mechanics. However, their potential to control quantum coherence, entangle- ment, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Carlo Danieli , Laura Pilozzi , Claudio Conti , Valentina Brosco

To harness the true potential of topological insulators as quantum materials for information processing, it is imperative to maximise topological surface state conduction, while simulateneously improving their quantum coherence. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Abhishek Banerjee , R. Ganesan , P. S. Anil Kumar

We study the effect of disorder in systems having a non-trivial Euler class. As these recently proposed multi-gap topological phases come about by braiding non-Abelian charged band nodes residing between different bands to induce stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Mohammadreza Noormandipour , Adrien Bouhon , Robert-Jan Slager

We study the topological properties of hardcore bosons on a two-leg ladder consisting of two Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains that are coupled via hopping and interaction. We chart out the phase diagram for the system and show that based…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-16 Ashirbad Padhan , Suman Mondal , Smitha Vishveshwara , Tapan Mishra

Quantization of particle transport lies at the heart of topological physics. In Thouless pumps - dimensionally reduced versions of the integer quantum Hall effect - quantization is dictated by the integer winding of single-band Wannier…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-28 Marius Jürgensen , Jacob Steiner , Gil Refael , Mikael C. Rechtsman

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

Recent studies indicated that helical organic molecules, such as DNA and $\alpha$-helical protein, can behave as Thouless quantum pumps when a rotating electric field is applied perpendicularly to their helical axes. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ai-Min Guo , Pei-Jia Hu , Xiao-Hui Gao , Tie-Feng Fang , Qing-Feng Sun

We examine the impact of non-magnetic disorder on the electronic states of a multilayer structure comprising layers of both topological and conventional band insulators. Employing the Burkov-Balents model with renormalized tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Z. Z. Alisultanov , A. Kudlis

We study symmetry preserving adiabatic and Floquet dynamics of one-dimensional systems. Using quasiadiabatic evolution, we establish a correspondence between adiabatic cycles and invertible defects generated by spatially truncated Thouless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Yabo Li , Matteo Dell'acqua , Aditi Mitra