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The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a tight-binding one-dimensional (1D) lattice with alternating nearest-neighbor amplitudes. Despite its mathematically simple and physically intuitive structure, the SSH model is capable of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Raditya Weda Bomantara

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

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

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a one-dimensional $Z_{2}$ topological insulator, which has two topological distinct phases corresponding to two different dimerizations. When spin-orbit coupling is introduced into the SSH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, containing dimerized hopping and a constant onsite energy, has become a paradigmatic model for one-dimensional topological phases, soliton excitations and fractionalized charge in the presence of chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-08 Wojciech Brzezicki , Timo Hyart

Topological insulators are a new class of materials that have attracted significant attention in contemporary condensed matter physics. They are different from the regular insulators and they display novel quantum properties that also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Navketan Batra , Goutam Sheet

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a paradigmatic one-dimensional (1-D) system that exhibits a non-trivial band topology. In this paper, we foreground a new scheme involving a 1-D chain of $2N+1$ Bosonic modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair

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

Two-dimensional (2D) model of a weak topological insulator with $N$-stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is studied. This study starts with a basic model with all the fundamental symmetries (chiral, time-reversal, and particle-hole)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-06 Aayushi Agrawal , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

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

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a finite one-dimensional dimer lattice with first-neighbour hoppings populated by non-interacting electrons. In this work we study a generalization of the SSH model including longer-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Beatriz Pérez-González , Miguel Bello , Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

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

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

In this work, we theoretically study a modified Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in which each unit cell consists of three sites. Unlike existing extensions of the SSH model which are made by enlarging the periodicity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Mohammad Ghuneim , Raditya Weda Bomantara

Topological phases and their topological features are enriched by the fundamental time-reversal, particle-hole, and chiral as well as crystalline symmetries. While one-dimensional (1D) generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) systems show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Sang-Hoon Han , Seung-Gyo Jeong , Sun-Woo Kim , Tae-Hwan Kim , Sangmo Cheon

We study the interplay of spontaneous symmetry breaking and topological properties in interacting one-dimensional models. We solve these models using bozonization and identify topologically non-trivial phases by counting the additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Polina Matveeva , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model lays the foundation of many important concepts in quantum topological matters. Since it tells one that topological states may be distinguished by abelian geometric phases, a question naturally arises as…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-28 Shao-Liang Zhang , Qi Zhou

We investigate the edge states and the topological phase transitions in a class of tight binding lattices in one dimension where a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model exists in disguise. The unit cells of such lattices may have an arbitrarily…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-07 Subhajyoti Bid , Arunava Chakrabarti

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which captures the most striking transport properties of the conductive organic polymer $trans$-polyacetylene, provides perhaps the most basic model system supporting topological excitations. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-12 Eric J. Meier , Fangzhao Alex An , Bryce Gadway

Topological models are characterized by a quantized topological invariant and provide a description of novel phases of matter that can exhibit localized edge states, corner modes, and chiral transport. We experimentally realize two 1-D…

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