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Transfer matrix methods and intersection theory are used to calculate the bands of edge states for a wide class of periodic two-dimensional tight-binding models including a sublattice and spin degree of freedom. This allows to define…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Julio Cesar Avila , Hermann Schulz-Baldes , Carlos Villegas-Blas

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a prototype model in the field of topological condensed matter physics, and the existence and characteristics of its topological edge states are crucial for revealing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Weibo Xu

We propose and experimentally realize a class of quasi-one-dimensional topological lattices whose unit cells are constructed by coupled multiple identical resonators, with uniform hopping and inversion symmetry. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Jun Li , Yaping Yang , C. M. Hu

Studying the edge states of a topological system and extracting their topological properties is of great importance in understanding and characterizing these systems. In this paper, we present a novel analytical approach for obtaining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Mozhgan Sadeghizadeh , Morteza Soltani , Mohsen Amini

In order to transport information with topological protection, we explore experimentally the fast transport time using edge states in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. The transport time is investigated in both one- and…

We investigate topological phases induced by a driven electric field coupled to a dimer chain (a model for poly-acetylene) at high frequency regime. It is shown how the topological invariant of the system can be controlled by the field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Fatemeh Askari Shahid , Hosein Cheraghchi

We study a class of periodic Schr\"odinger operators, which in distinguished cases can be proved to have linear band-crossings or "Dirac points". We then show that the introduction of an "edge", via adiabatic modulation of these periodic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 Charles L. Fefferman , James P. Lee-Thorp , Michael I. Weinstein

We consider the non-Hermitian, parity-time (PT) symmetric extensions of the one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in the topological non-trivial configuration. We study the properties of the topologically protected edge states,…

We investigate quantum transport and thermoelectrical properties of a finite-size Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, a paradigmatic model for a one-dimensional topological insulator, which displays topologically protected edge states. By coupling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-25 Sina Böhling , Georg Engelhardt , Gloria Platero , Gernot Schaller

Topological phases of matter have attracted much attention over the years. Motivated by analogy with photonic lattices, here we examine the edge states of a one-dimensional trimer lattice in the phases with and without inversion symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , M. D. Coutinho-Filho

We propose an experimentally feasible scheme for realizing quantum state transfer via the topological edge states in a one-dimensional cavity-magnon lattice. We find that the cavity-magnon system can be mapped analytically into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xi-Xi Bao , Gang-Feng Guo , Lei Tan

We introduce a one dimensional non-Hermitian four band tight binding lattice system. We find stable topological edge states protected by particle-hole and parity-time symmetries. We show that topological phase appears in the system. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 C. Yuce

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

We reelaborate on the basic properties of lossless multilayers. We show that the transfer matrices for these multilayers have essentially the same algebraic properties as the Lorentz group SO(2,1) in a (2+1)-dimensional spacetime, as well…

We consider the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain, which has 0, 1, or 2 topological edge states depending on the ratio of the hopping parameters and the parity of the chain length. We couple a qubit to one edge of the SSH chain and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Meri Zaimi , Christian Boudreault , Nouédyn Baspin , Nicolas Delnour , Hichem Eleuch , Richard MacKenzie , Michael Hilke

Accurate and fast modeling of electric fields in layered structures have a great scientific and practical value. Prevalent method for that is transfer-matrix method. However, transfer matrix method is limited to infinite plane wave…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-04 A. Loot , V. Hizhnyakov

Recent advancements in the field of topological band theory have significantly contributed to our understanding of intriguing topological phenomena observed in various classical and quantum systems, encompassing both wave and dissipative…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-04 Moladad Nikbakht , Farzam Bahmani

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

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model perhaps is the easiest and the most basic model for topological excitations. Many variations and extensions of the SSH model have been proposed and explored to better understand both fundamental and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-01 Dizhou Xie , Wei Gou , Teng Xiao , Bryce Gadway , Bo Yan

Symmetries -- whether explicit, latent, or hidden -- are fundamental to understanding topological materials. This work introduces a prototypical spring-mass model that extends beyond established canonical models, revealing topological edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Udbhav Vishwakarma , Murthaza Irfan , Georgios Theocharis , Rajesh Chaunsali