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A Thouless pump is a slowly driven one-dimensional band insulator which pumps charge at a quantised rate. Previous work showed that pumping persists in weakly disordered chains, and separately in clean chains at finite drive frequency. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-19 Dominik Vuina , David M. Long , Philip J. D. Crowley , Anushya Chandran

Topological phases are robust against weak perturbations, but break down when disorder becomes sufficiently strong. However, moderate disorder can also induce topologically nontrivial phases. Thouless pumping, as a (1+1)D counterpart of the…

In this article, we develop a description of topological pumps as slow classical dynamical variables coupled by a quantum system. We discuss the cases of quantum Hall pumps, Thouless pumps, and the more recent Floquet pumps based frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Jacquelin Luneau , Clément Dutreix , Quentin Ficheux , Pierre Delplace , Benoît Douçot , Benjamin Huard , David Carpentier

The Thouless pump, a cornerstone of topological physics, enables unidirectional quantized wave/particle transport via geometric Berry phase engineering in periodically driven systems. While decades of research have been dedicated to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Qingyang Mo , Shanjun Liang , Xiangke Lan , Jie Zhu , Shuang Zhang

Thouless pumping is a paradigmatic example of topologically protected, directed transport in linear systems. Recent extensions to nonlinear pumps often overlook the need to reassess the conventional framework of linear topology. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Markus Bestler , Oded Zilberberg

In Thouless pump, the charge transport in a one-dimensional insulator over an adiabatic cycle is topologically quantized. For nonequilibrium initial states, however, interband coherence will induce a previously unknown contribution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Gudapati Naresh Raghava , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

The interplay between topology and soliton is a central topic in nonlinear topological physics. So far, most studies have been confined to conservative settings. Here, we explore Thouless pumping of dissipative temporal solitons in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-06 Xuzhen Cao , Chunyu Jia , Ying Hu , Zhaoxin Liang

Quantized Thouless pumps in periodic systems, set by Chern numbers or Wannier-center winding, is by now fairly well established, whereas its quasi-periodic extensions still require further clarification. Here, we develop a general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Zixun Xu , Yuan Yao

We theoretically investigate a Thouless pumping scheme in the 1D topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model for single and multiple band-gaps systems when implemented in a discrete nematic liquid crystal arrangement. For an electrically…

We study soliton Thouless pumping in an extended diagonal Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model with on-site nonlinearities and inter-site nonlinearities. We show that the inter-site nonlinearities can make solitons acquire anomalous transport…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-06 Tao Jiang , Li-Chen Zhao

We study Thouless pumps, i.e., adiabatic topological transport, in an interacting spin chain described by the dimerized XXZ Hamiltonian. In the noninteracting case, quantized Thouless pumps can only occur when a topological singularity is…

We show how to implement quantum transport, generate entangled state and achieve spatial entanglement distribution via topological Thouless pumping in one-dimensional disordered lattices. We introduce the on-site disorders to suppress the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Shi Hu , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

We study a Thouless pump realized with an elastically \textit{deformable quantum dot} whose center of mass follows a non-linear stochastic dynamics. The interplay of noise, non-linear effects, dissipation and interaction with an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 C. A. Perroni , F. Romeo , A. Nocera , V. Marigliano Ramaglia , R. Citro , V. Cataudella

It has recently been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed that a soliton resulting from nonlinearity can be pumped across an integer or fractional number of unit cells as a system parameter is slowly varied over a pump…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-21 Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

We investigate the dynamics of nonlinear optical Thouless pumps in the presence of disorder, using optical waveguide arrays. It was previously known that the displacement of solitons in Thouless pumps is quantized and may exhibit integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Abhijit P. Chaudhari , Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Geometric properties of waves and wave functions can explain the appearance of integer-valued observables throughout physics. For example, these 'topological' invariants describe the plateaux observed in the quantised Hall effect and the…

A topological pump enables robust transport of quantized particles when the system parameters are varied in a cyclic process. In previous studies, topological pump was achieved inhomogeneous systems guaranteed by a topological invariant of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Bi-Ye Xie , Oubo You , Shuang Zhang

Thouless pumping, the quantized transport of particles in a cyclic adiabatic evolution, faces a challenge: slow driving may exceed the coherent time, while fast driving may break quantization. To address this dilemma, we propose to speed up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Wenjie Liu , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

The notion of topological (Thouless) pumping in topological phases is traditionally associated with Laughlin's pump argument for the quantization of the Hall conductance in two-dimensional (2D) quantum Hall systems. It relies on magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Charles-Edouard Bardyn , Michele Filippone , Thierry Giamarchi

Recent explorations of quantized solitons transport in optical waveguides have thrust nonlinear topological pumping into the spotlight. In this work, we introduce a unified topological invariant applicable across both weakly and strongly…