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Non-reciprocal devices, such as circulators and isolators, are indispensable components in classical and quantum information processing in an integrated photonic circuit. Aside from those applications, the non-reciprocal phase shift is of…

Topological matter and topological optics have been studied in many systems, with promising applications in materials science and photonics technology. These advances motivate the study of the interaction between topological matter and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Wei Nie , Tao Shi , Franco Nori , Yu-xi Liu

We present a continuous non-local model that faithfully replicates the rich topological and spectral features of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. Remarkably, our model shares the SSH models bulk energy spectrum, eigenstates, and Zak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Fotios K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

The Su, Schrieffer and Heeger (SSH) model, describing the soliton excitations in polyacetylene due to the formation of antiphase domain walls (DW) from the alternating bond pattern, has served as a paradigmatic example of one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Jinwoong Kim , Cheng-Yi Huang , Hsin Lin , David Vanderbilt , Nicholas Kioussis

In this work, we develop a systematical approach of constructing and classifying the model Hamiltonians for two-dimensional (2D) higher-order topological phase with corner zero energy states (CZESs). Our approach is based on the direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Chao-Xing Liu , Xin Liu

We analyze the static and dynamical properties of a one-dimensional topological lattice, the fermionic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, in the presence of on-site interactions. Based on a study of charge and spin correlation functions, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-06 L. Barbiero , L. Santos , N. Goldman

Optical nonreciprocity is important in photonic information processing to route the optical signal or prevent the reverse flow of noise. By adopting the strong nonlinearity associated with a few atoms in a strongly coupled cavity QED system…

Topological lasers, known for their robustness and unique features originating from nontrivial topology, have recently become a focal point of research in photonics. In this work, we propose a topological laser based on two-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yi-Ling Zhang , Yang Liu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Jian-Hua Jiang

Recently, concepts of topological phases of matter are extended to non-equilibrium systems, especially periodically driven systems. In this paper, we construct an example which shows non-equilibrium topological phase transitions using…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-01-31 Masaya Nakagawa , Norio Kawakami

Topological photonics is an emerging research area that focuses on the topological states of classical light. Here we reveal the topological phases that are intrinsic to the particle nature of light, i.e., solely related to the quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Han Cai , Da-Wei Wang

We design germanium-based higher-order topological cavities for terahertz applications by breaking the symmetry of a two-dimensional photonic crystal following the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. Calculations demonstrate the parity inversion of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Ian Colombo , Pietro Minazzi , Emiliano Bonera , Fabio Pezzoli , Jacopo Pedrini

We present a theoretical study of the temporal and spatial coherence properties of a topological laser device built by including saturable gain on the edge sites of a Harper--Hofstadter lattice for photons. For small enough lattices the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ivan Amelio , Iacopo Carusotto

Topological photonics sheds light on some of the surprising phenomena seen in condensed matter physics that arise with the appearance of topological invariants. Optical waveguides provide a well-controlled platform to investigate effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Adrian J Menssen , Jun Guan , David Felce , Martin J Booth , Ian A Walmsley

Topological phases in non-Hermitian systems have become fascinating subjects recently. In this paper, we attempt to classify topological phases in 1D interacting non-Hermitian systems. We begin with the non-Hermitian generalization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-18 Wenjie Xi , Zhi-Hao Zhang , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Wei-Qiang Chen

The introduction of nonlinearities into lattices with topological band structures has led to the discovery of various types of solitons. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattice, as the most fundamental topological model, has been extended…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-05 Rujiang Li , Muhammad Imran , Wencai Wang , Yongtao Jia , Ying Liu

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is an one-dimensional lattice that comprises two dimerized sublattices. Recently, Zhu, Prodan, and Ahn (ZPA) proposed in [L. Zhu, E. Prodan, and K. H. Ahn, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{99}, 041117 (2019)] that…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-14 Sunam Jeon , Youngkuk Kim

We study a one-dimensional plasmonic system with non-trivial topology: a chain of metallic nanoparticles with alternating spacing, which is the plasmonic analogue to the Su-Schreiffer-Heeger model. We extend previous efforts by including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Simon R. Pocock , Paloma A. Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

We study topological features of interacting spin- 1 2 particles in one-dimensional state-dependent optical lattices. Due to the co-translational symmetry, we introduce the center-of-mass Zak phase with the help of center-of-mass momentum.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Ling Lin , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

While energy band topology in spatial photonic crystals (PCs) and momentum-band topology in temporal crystals have each served as powerful probes of topological phases in their respective domains, their unification in a static platform…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Zimeng Zeng , Zhuoyang Li , Jiayao Liu , Zelong He , Zhaona Wang

Topological quantum optical states in one-dimensional (1D) quasiperiodic cold atomic chains are studied in this work. We propose that by introducing incommensurate modulations on the interatomic distances of 1D periodic atomic chains, the…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 B. X. Wang , C. Y. Zhao