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We propose a scheme to investigate the topological phase transition and the topological state transfer based on the small optomechanical lattice under the realistic parameters regime. We find that the optomechanical lattice can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Lu Qi , Guo-Li Wang , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

Topological insulators are a class of electronic materials exhibiting robust edge states immune to perturbations and disorder. This concept has been successfully adapted in photonics, where topologically nontrivial waveguides and…

This work presents a rigorous theory for topological photonic materials in one dimension. The main focus is on the existence and stability of interface modes that are induced by topological properties of the bulk structure. For a general 1D…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Junshan Lin , Hai Zhang

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains are paradigmatic examples of 1D topological insulators hosting zero-energy edge modes when the bulk of the system has a non-zero topological winding invariant. Recently, high-harmonic spectroscopy has been…

One-dimensional lattices with chiral symmetry are known to possess quantized Zak phase and nontrivial topological phases. Here it is shown that quantized Zak phase and nontrivial edge states, partially protected by inversion symmetry rather…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Stefano Longhi

In crystalline systems, charge polarization is related to Zak's phase determined by bulk band topology. Nontrivial charge polarization induces robust edge states accompanied with fractional charge. In Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Tomoaki Kameda , Feng Liu , Sudipta Dutta , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Recent experimental advance in creating dissipative couplings provides a new route for engineering exotic lattice systems and exploring topological dissipation. Using the spatial lattice of atomic spinwaves in a vacuum vapor cell, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Dongdong Hao , Lin Wang , Xingda Lu , Xuzhen Cao , Suotang Jia , Ying Hu , Yanhong Xiao

Advancements in photonics technologies have significantly enhanced their capability to facilitate experiments involving quantum light, even at room temperature. Nevertheless, fully integrating photonic chips that include quantum light…

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…

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is likely the simplest one-dimensional concept to study non-trivial topological phases and topological excitations. Originally developed to explain the electric conductivity of polyacetylene, it has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 M. Esmann , F. R. Lamberti , A. Lemaitre , N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura

Unlike a Chern number in $2$D and $3$D topological system, Zak phase takes a subtle role to characterize the topological phase in $1$D. On the one hand, it is not a gauge invariant, on the other hand, the Zak phase difference between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

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

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

Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses. Recently discovered topological phases of light…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-04 Daria Smirnova , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Yuri Kivshar

Topological magnons in a one-dimensional (1D) ferromagnetic (FM) Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with anisotropic exchange interactions are investigated. Apart from the inter-cellular isotropic Heisenberg interaction, the intercellular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-28 Peng-Tao Wei , Jin-Yu Ni , Xia-Ming Zheng , Da-Yong Liu , Liang-Jian Zou

Topological phonon polaritons (TPhPs) are highly protected and localized edge modes that are capable of achieving a strong confinement of electromagnetic waves and immune to impurities and disorder. Here we realize TPhPs by constructing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 B. X. Wang , C. Y. Zhao

We demonstrate dynamical topological phase transitions in evolving Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattices made of interacting soliton arrays, which are entirely driven by nonlinearity and thereby exemplify emergent nonlinear topological…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-05-17 Domenico Bongiovanni , Dario Jukić , Zhichan Hu , Frane Lunić , Yi Hu , Daohong Song , Roberto Morandotti , Zhigang Chen , Hrvoje Buljan

Frenkel polaritons, hybrid light-matter quasiparticles, offer promises for the designing of new opto-electronic devices. However, their technological implementations are hindered by sensitivity to imperfections. Topology has raised as a way…

Zak phase and topological protected edge state are usually studied in one-dimensional(1D) photonic systems with spatial inversion symmetry(SIS). Interestingly in this work, we find specific classes of 1D structure without SIS can be mapped…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Qiucui Li , Yu Zhang , Xunya Jiang

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