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Topological photonics and acoustics have recently garnered wide research interests for their topological ability to manipulate the light and sound at surfaces. Conventionally, the supercell technique is the standard approach to calculating…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-24 Yi-Xin Sha , Ming-Yao Xia , Ling Lu , Yi Yang

Topological phases of matter possess intricate correlation patterns typically probed by entanglement entropies or entanglement spectra. In this work, we propose an alternative approach to assessing topologically induced edge states in free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-06 Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Jens Eisert , Mauro Cirio , Ville Lahtinen , Jiannis K. Pachos

To clarify the relationship between edge electronic states in open-boundary crystalline systems and their corresponding bulk electronic structure, Alase et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076804 (2016)] have recently generalized Bloch's theorem…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-13 B. Hetényi , A. Lászlóffy , K. Penc , B. Újfalussy

It has been proposed recently by some of the authors that the quantum phase transition of a topological insulator like the SSH model may be detected by the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the reduced density matrix. Here we further extend…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Wing Chi Yu , P. D. Sacramento , Yan Chao Li , D. G. Angelakis , Hai-Qing Lin

A recent simplified transfer matrix solution of the two-dimensional Ising model on a square lattice with periodic boundary conditions is generalized to periodic-antiperiodic, antiperiodic-periodic and antiperiodic-antiperiodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Kastening

We examine topological phases and symmetry-protected electronic edge states in the context of a Rydberg composite: a Rydberg atom interfaced with a structured arrangement of ground-state atoms. The electronic Hamiltonian of such a composite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Matthew T. Eiles , Christopher W. Wächtler , Alexander Eisfeld , Jan M. Rost

We analyze the topological and dynamical properties of a system formed by two chains of identical emitters coupled to a waveguide, whose guided modes induce all-to-all excitation hopping. We find that, in the single excitation limit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ciaran McDonnell , Beatriz Olmos

We investigate the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in presence of an injection and removal of particles, introduced via a master equation in Lindblad form. It is shown that the dynamics of the density matrix follows the predictions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Marcel Klett , Holger Cartarius , Dennis Dast , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases exhibit nontrivial order if symmetry is respected but are adiabatically connected to the trivial product phase if symmetry is not respected. However, unlike the symmetry-breaking phase, there is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 Ching-Yu Huang , Tzu-Chieh Wei

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…

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is the reference model of a one-dimensional topological insulator. Its topological nature can be explained by the quantization of the Zak phase, due to reflection symmetry of the unit cell, or of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Malte Röntgen , Xuelong Chen , Wenlong Gao , Maxim Pyzh , Peter Schmelcher , Vincent Pagneux , Vassos Achilleos , Antonin Coutant

In this work, we propose a novel qubit-based sensor with the ability to characterize topological edge states in low-dimensional systems. A composite system is studied, consisting of a qubit coupled to a topologically nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Nicolas Delnour , Alexei Bissonnette , Hichem Eleuch , Richard MacKenzie , Michael Hilke

We design a setup to realize tunable topological phases in elastic photonic crystals. Using the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model as a canonical example, we show how a system can be continuously tuned across its topological phase transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Ehsan Saei Ghareh Naz , Ion Cosma Fulga , Libo Ma , Oliver G. Schmidt , Jeroen van den Brink

This paper experimentally investigates topologically protected edge modes in a water wave channel through a direct geometric mapping to the one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. By designing a periodic channel with alternating…

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

Periodically driven systems have a longstanding reputation for establishing rich topological phenomena beyond their static counterpart. In this work, we propose and investigate a periodically driven extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Mohammad Ghuneim , Raditya Weda Bomantara

This paper introduces an intrinsic theory of Thermodynamic Formalism for Iterated Functions Systems with general positive continuous weights (IFSw).We study the spectral properties of the Transfer and Markov operators and one of our first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-07 L. Cioletti , Elismar R. Oliveira

Topology plays a central role in ensuring the robustness of a wide variety of physical phenomena. Notable examples range from the robust current carrying edge states associated with the quantum Hall and the quantum spin Hall effects to…

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

Robust states emerging at the boundaries of a system are an important hallmark of topological matter. Here, using the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and the Kitaev chain as examples, we study the impact of a type of experimentally realizable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Yi Peng , Chao Yang , Haiping Hu , Yucheng Wang