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We report on the observation of a topologically protected edge state at the interface between two topologically distinct domains of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, which we implement in arrays of evanescently coupled dielectric-loaded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Felix Bleckmann , Zlata Cherpakova , Stefan Linden , Andrea Alberti

While energy band topology in spatial photonic crystals (PCs) and momentum-band topology in temporal crystals have each served as powerful probes of topological phases in their respective domains, their unification in a static platform…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Zimeng Zeng , Zhuoyang Li , Jiayao Liu , Zelong He , Zhaona Wang

We report the first observation of lasing in topological edge states in a 1D Su-Schrieffer-Heeger active array of resonators. We show that in the presence of chiral-time ($\mathcal{CT}$) symmetry, this non-Hermitian topological structure…

Topological systems furnish a powerful way of localizing wave energy at edges of a structured material. Usually this relies on Bragg scattering to obtain bandgaps with nontrivial topological structures. However, this limits their…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Antonin Coutant , Vassos Achilleos , Olivier Richoux , Georgios Theocharis , Vincent Pagneux

We report an actively tunable topological edge mode laser in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) laser chain, where the SSH chain is realized in an electrically-injected Fabry-Perot (FP) laser chain. A non-Hermitian SSH model is…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-24 Ruizhe Yao , Hang Li , Bowen Zheng , Sensong An , Jun Ding , Chi-Sen Lee , Hualiang Zhang , Wei Guo

Topological edge states typically arise at the boundaries of topologically nontrivial structures or at interfaces between regions with differing topological invariants. When topological systems are extended into the nonlinear regime, linear…

A main objective of topological photonics is the design of disorder-resilient optical devices. Many prospective applications would benefit from nonlinear effects, which not only are naturally present in real systems but also are needed for…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-04 E. Cancellieri , H. Schomerus

We report the experimental observation of the periodic switching of topological edge states between two dimerized fs-laser written waveguide arrays. Switching occurs due to the overlap of the modal fields of the edge states from topological…

Topological insulator lie at the forefront of condensed matter physics. However strong disorder can destroy the topological states and make all states become localized. In this paper, we investigate the competition between topology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Xin Guan , Gang Chen

The topological properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in the presence of nearest-neighbor interaction are investigated by means of a topological marker, generalized from a noninteracting one by utilizing the single-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-01 Pedro B. Melo , Sebastião A. S. Júnior , Wei Chen , Rubem Mondaini , Thereza Paiva

We report an experimental study of the disordered Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, implemented in a system of coaxial cables, whose radio frequency properties map on to the SSH Hamiltonian. By measuring multiple chains with random hopping…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-21 D. M. Whittaker , Maxine M. McCarthy , Qingqing Duan

We investigate the formation of multipole topological solitons at the edges of two and three coupled parallel Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) waveguide arrays. We show that independent variations of waveguide spacing in the unit cells (dimers)…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-28 Khalil Sabour , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We study a one-dimensional topological model featuring a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger type pattern of nearest-neighbor couplings in combination with the longer-range interactions exponentially decaying with the distance. We demonstrate that even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Vlad Simonyan , Maxim A. Gorlach

The question of whether the topological insulators can host a stable nontrivial phase in the presence of spatially correlated disorder is a fundamental question of interest. Based on theoretical investigations, we analyze the effect of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-11 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Dawei Kang

We explore topology-localization phase diagram by simulating one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with quasiperiodic disorder using a programmable superconducting simulator. We experimentally map out and identify various trivial…

Simple route of engineering topological phases for any desired value of winding and Chern numbers is found in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model by adding a further neighbor hopping term of varying distances. It is known that the standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Rakesh Kumar Malakar , Asim Kumar Ghosh

Topological phases feature robust edge states that are protected against the effects of defects and disorder. The robustness of these states presents opportunities to design technologies that are tolerant to fabrication errors and resilient…

In this paper, we review the basic concepts of topologically protected edge modes using the Su Schrieffer Heeger (SSH) model, originally introduced to describe electrical conductivity in doped polyacetylene polymer chains. We then propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 L. Q. English , A. Halchenko , F. Palmero

A chiral symmetric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain features topological end states in one of its dimerized configurations. Those mid-gap zero energy states show interesting modifications upon a periodic tuning of the hopping modulations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-15 Surajit Mandal , Satyaki Kar

We study topological properties of phase transition points of topological quantum phase transitions by assigning a topological invariant defined on a closed circle or surface surrounding the phase transition point in the parameter space of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-13 Linhu Li , Shu Chen