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Time-periodic (Floquet) drive is a powerful method to engineer quantum phases of matter, including fundamentally non-equilibrium states that are impossible in static Hamiltonian systems. One characteristic example is the anomalous Floquet…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-12 Christopher I. Timms , Lukas M. Sieberer , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

We show that non-Hermiticity enables topological phases with unidirectional transport in one-dimensional Floquet chains. The topological signatures of these phases are non-contractible loops in the spectrum of the Floquet propagator that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Bastian Höckendorf , Andreas Alvermann , Holger Fehske

Topological semimetals with nodal line are a novel class of topological matter extending the concept of topological matter beyond topological insulators and Weyl/Dirac semimetals. Here, we show that a Floquet topological semimetal with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-03 Kun Woo Kim , Hyun Woong Kwon , Kwon Park

We consider topological phases in periodically driven (Floquet) systems exhibiting many-body localization, protected by a symmetry $G$. We argue for a general correspondence between such phases and topological phases of undriven systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-19 Dominic V. Else , Chetan Nayak

Recent topological tools offer a powerful way to classify how phases of nonlinear bosonic resonators are organized. Yet, they remain incomplete. In particular, self-sustained oscillations in the form of limit cycles act as robust organizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Thomas Mutschler , Greta Villa , Oded Zilberberg

Topology and nonlinearity are deeply connected. However, whether topological effects can arise solely from the structure of nonlinear interaction terms, and the nature of the resulting topological phases, remain to large extent open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alessandro Coppo , Alexandre Le Boité , Simone Felicetti , Valentina Brosco

In this paper we report that notions of topological protection can be applied to stationary configurations that are driven far from equilibrium by active, dissipative processes. We show this for physically two disparate cases : stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-08 Kinjal Dasbiswas , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices and quantum information technology. One of the hallmarks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 Ching-Kai Chiu , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Andreas P. Schnyder , Shinsei Ryu

We present a unified framework to systematically embed complex knotted and linked structures, beyond the torus family, into diverse topological phases, including Hopf insulators, classical spin liquids, topological semimetals, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-27 Snigdh Sabharwal

We investigate the topological properties of dynamical states evolving on periodic oriented graphs. This evolution, that encodes the scattering processes occurring at the nodes of the graph, is described by a single-step global operator, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Pierre Delplace , Michel Fruchart , Clément Tauber

Engineering dissipative dynamics in open quantum systems is under active focus, especially in topological settings where resilient edge modes are expected to exhibit decay rates distinct from the bulk. In this letter, we propose an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Koustav Roy , Shahroze Shahab , Saurabh Basu

Non-Hermitian topological phases in static and periodically driven systems have attracted great attention in recent years. Finding dynamical probes for these exotic phases would be of great importance in the detection and application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Longwen Zhou

We study the strong disorder regime of Floquet topological systems in dimension two, that describe independent electrons on a lattice subject to a periodic driving. In the spectrum of the Floquet propagator we assume the existence of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jacob Shapiro , Clément Tauber

Complex systems are commonly modeled using nonlinear dynamical systems. These models are often high-dimensional and chaotic. An important goal in studying physical systems through the lens of mathematical models is to determine when the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Jesse Berwald , Marian Gidea , Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

Coupled oscillator networks show a complex interrelations between topological characteristics of the network and the nonlinear stability of single nodes with respect to large but realistic perturbations. We extend previous results on these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-05 Jan Nitzbon , Paul Schultz , Jobst Heitzig , Jürgen Kurths , Frank Hellmann

We proposed a framework for the topological classification of non-Hermitian systems. Different from previous $K$-theoretical approaches, our approach is a homotopy classification, which enables us to see more topological invariants.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Zhi Li , Roger S. K. Mong

Complex networks play a fundamental role in understanding phenomena from the collective behavior of spins, neural networks, and power grids to the spread of diseases. Topological phenomena in such networks have recently been exploited to…

Floquet time crystal, which breaks discrete time-translation symmetry, is an intriguing phenomenon in non-equilibrium systems. It is crucial to understand the rigidity and robustness of discrete time crystal (DTC) phases in a many-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-16 Peng Xu , Tian-Shu Deng

This paper explores the concept of topological transitivity in nonautonomous dynamical systems, which are defined as sequences of continuous maps from a compact metric space to itself. It investigates various conditions (including…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Michal Málek

This contribution describes the mathematical theory of topological indices in solid state systems composed of non-interacting Fermions. In particular, this covers the spectral localizer and the bulk-boundary correspondence.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Hermann Schulz-Baldes