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We present an experimental evidence of \emph{topological} Hall-effect in an all-optical third-order nonlinear optical process via spatial symmetry-breaking in pseudo-spin textures created by a spatially-structured pump laser beam. The…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-03 Soumik Nandi , Arannya Ghosh , Ashok K Mohapatra , Ritwick Das

We propose a new type of interferometry, based on geometric phases accumulated by a periodically driven two-level system undergoing multiple Landau-Zener transitions. As a specific example, we study its implementation in a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-15 S. Gasparinetti , P. Solinas , J. P. Pekola

In this manuscript we report on adiabatic pumping in quasiperiodic stiffness modulated beams. We show that distinct topological states populating nontrivial gaps can nucleate avoided crossings characterized by edge-to-edge transitions. Such…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Emanuele Riva , Vito Casieri , Ferruccio Resta , Francesco Braghin

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Bi-Ye Xie , Oubo You , Shuang Zhang

Folding mechanisms are zero elastic energy motions essential to the deployment of origami, linkages, reconfigurable metamaterials and robotic structures. In this paper, we determine the fate of folding mechanisms when such structures are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-09 D. Zeb Rocklin , Vincenzo Vitelli , Xiaoming Mao

The ability to engineer the properties of quantum optical states is essential for quantum information processing applications. Here, we demonstrate tunable control of spatial correlations between photon pairs produced by spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Pauline Boucher , Hugo Defienne , Sylvain Gigan

In connection with recent discussion of topological order and topological phase transitions in quantum systems, we reexamine circumstances that lead to the appearance of a topological glass in certain classical lattice spin models. Local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tai-Kai Ng , Yi Zhou , Lei-Han Tang

Time-periodic perturbations can be used to engineer topological properties of matter by altering the Floquet band structure. This is demonstrated for a spin Hall insulator in the presence of monochromatic circularly polarized light. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Balázs Dóra , Jérôme Cayssol , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

We predict the general feasibility and demonstrate the specific design of the THz laser operating between Landau levels in graphene placed on a polar substrate in a magnetic field of order 1 T. Steady state operation under a continuous wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yongrui Wang , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

Topological pumping supplies a robust mechanism to steer waves across a sample without being affected by disorders and defects. For the first time, we demonstrate the pumping of elastic surface waves, achieved by a smart patterning of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Shaoyun Wang , Zhou Hu , Qian Wu , Hui Chen , Emil Prodan , Rui Zhu , Guoliang Huang

A measure-preserving formalism (MPF) is constructed and applied to spin/band models, which yield observations about pumping. It occurs at topological phase transition (TPT), i.e., a $Z_2$-flip, suggesting that $Z_2$ can imply bulk effects.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 B. Q. Song , J. D. H. Smith , L. Luo , J. Wang

Nonlinear Thouless pumping has been established in periodic lattices; its counterpart in quasiperiodic lattices remains unexplored. Here, we show a nonlinear topological pumping of gap solitons in quasiperiodic lattices where the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Xiao-Xiao Hu , Dun Zhao , Hong-Gang Luo

Topological charge pumping represents an important quantum phenomenon that shows the fundamental connection to the topological properties of dynamical systems. Here, we introduce a pumping process in a spin-dependent double-well optical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-29 Qianqian Chen , Jianming Cai , Shaoliang Zhang

In this work, we propose a completely general method to pump the gapped topological modes of a lattice of optical waveguides by controlling the propagation constant of an auxiliary waveguide and its coupling to the main lattice. In this…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-13 David Viedma , Jordi Mompart , Verònica Ahufinger

Metamaterials with floppy modes called mechanisms are a burgeoning template for shape-morphing systems and structures across scales. Here, we present a design recipe that transforms an arbitrary plane tiling into a 2D kirigami pattern with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-04 Yingchao Peng , Asifur Rahman , Paolo Celli , Paul Plucinsky

We propose and analyze theoretically a one-dimensional solid-state electronic setup that operates as a topological charge pump in the complete absence of superimposed oscillating local voltages. The system consists of a semiconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Sudhakar Pandey , Niccolo' Scopigno , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

By means of time-dependent density matrix renormalization group calculations we study topological quantum pumping in a strongly interacting system. The system under consideration is described by the Hamiltonian of a one-dimensional extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-26 Davide Rossini , Marco Gibertini , Vittorio Giovannetti , Rosario Fazio

Topological pumping refers to transfer of a physical quantity governed by the systemtopology, resulting in quantized amounts of the transferred quantities. It is a ubiqui-tous wave phenomenon typically considered subject to exactly periodic…

The usual Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with an even number of lattice sites possesses two degenerate zero energy modes. The degeneracy of the zero energy modes leads to the mixing between the topological left and right edge states, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Lu Qi , Guo-Li Wang , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

We observe quantum beats with periodic revivals due to non-linear spacing of Zeeman levels in the ground state of potassium atoms and demonstrate their synchronous optical pumping by double modulation of the pumping light at the Larmor…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. J. Seltzer , P. J. Meares , M. V. Romalis