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We report on the topological pumping of quadratic optical solitons, observed through their quantized transport in a dynamic optical potential. A distinctive feature of this system is that the two fields with different frequencies, which…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-27 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Fangwei Ye , Vladimir V. Konotop

The concept of multi-gap topology has recently been shown to give rise to uncharted phases beyond conventional single-gap classifications. These phases relate to band nodes with non-Abelian quaternion charges and momentum-space braiding…

Topological properties of physical systems can lead to robust behaviors that are insensitive to microscopic details. Such topologically robust phenomena are not limited to static systems but can also appear in driven quantum systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Takuya Kitagawa , Erez Berg , Mark Rudner , Eugene Demler

Topological photonics was initially inspired by the quantum-optical analogy between the Schr\"odinger equation for an electron wavefunction and the paraxial equation for a light beam. Here, we reveal an unexpected phenomenon in topological…

Constructing new topological materials is of vital interest for the development of robust quantum applications. However, engineering such materials often causes technological overhead, such as large magnetic fields, specific lattice…

We study Thouless pumping out of the adiabatic limit. Our findings show that despite its topological nature, this phenomenon is not {generically} robust to non-adiabatic effects. Indeed we find that the Floquet diagonal ensemble value of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-14 Lorenzo Privitera , Angelo Russomanno , Roberta Citro , Giuseppe E. Santoro

Floquet non-Abelian topological phases emerge in periodically driven systems and exhibit properties that are absent in their Abelian or static counterparts. Dubbed the Floquet non-Abelian topological insulators (FNATIs), they are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Haiping Hu , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Topological effects manifest in a wide range of physical systems, such as solid crystals, acoustic waves, photonic materials and cold atoms. These effects are characterized by `topological invariants' which are typically integer-valued, and…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 Sashank Kaushik Sridhar , Sayan Ghosh , Avik Dutt

The paradigm of Floquet engineering of topological states of matter can be generalized into the time-quasiperiodic scenario, where a lower dimensional time-dependent system maps into a higher dimensional one by combining the physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Zihao Qi , Gil Refael , Yang Peng

The periodic driving of a quantum system can enable new topological phases without analogs in static systems. This provides a route towards preparing non-equilibrium quantum phases rooted into the non-equilibrium nature by periodic driving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-22 Yufei Zhu , Tao Qin , Xinxin Yang , Gao Xianlong , Zhaoxin Liang

We experimentally realized Floquet topological photonic insulators using a square lattice of direct-coupled octagonal resonators. Unlike previously reported topological insulator systems based on microring lattices, the nontrivial…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-01 Shirin Afzal , Tyler J. Zimmerling , Yang Ren , David Perron , Vien Van

We develop a Floquet scattering formalism for the description of quasistationary states of microwave photons in a one-dimensional waveguide interacting with a nonlinear cavity by means of a periodically modulated coupling. This model is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Kim G. L. Pedersen , Vladimir Gritsev

Nonadiabatic Thouless pumping of electrons is studied in the framework of topological Floquet engineering, particularly focused on how changes to chemical moieties can control the emergence of the Floquet topological phase. We employ…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiyi Zhou , Yosuke Kanai

Alkaline-earth(-like) ultracold atoms, trapped in optical lattices and in the presence of an external gauge field, can stabilise Mott insulating phases characterised by density and magnetic order. We show that this property can be used to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-14 Luca Taddia , Eyal Cornfeld , Davide Rossini , Leonardo Mazza , Eran Sela , Rosario Fazio

Topological pumping and duality transformations are paradigmatic concepts in condensed matter and statistical mechanics. In this paper, we extend the concept of topological pumping of particles to topological pumping of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 T. Haug , L. Amico , L. -C. Kwek , W. J. Munro , V. M. Bastidas

We propose a quantum Fourier transform on photons in which a single atom-coupled cavity system mediates the photon-photon interactions. Our protocol utilizes time-delay feedback of photons and requires no active feedforward control. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-18 Yu Shi , Edo Waks

A topological charge pump [1] transfers charge in a quantized fashion. The quantization is stable against the detailed form of the pumping protocols and external noises and shares the same topological origin as the quantum Hall effect. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-11 Lei Wang , Matthias Troyer , Xi Dai

Non-Abelian topological insulators are characterized by matrix-valued, non-commuting topological charges with regard to more than one energy gap. Their descriptions go beyond the conventional topological band theory, in which an additive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

Recently, anomalous Floquet topological phases without static counterparts have been observed in different systems, where periodically driven models are realized to support a winding number of 1 and a pair of edge modes in each quasienergy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-20 Kaiye Shi , Xiang Zhang , Wei Zhang

Understanding topological matter is an outstanding challenge across several disciplines of physical science. Programmable quantum simulators have emerged as a powerful approach to studying such systems. While quantum spin liquids of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Marcin Kalinowski , Nishad Maskara , Mikhail D. Lukin