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Coherent states, being the closest analog to classical states of wave systems, are well known to possess special properties that set them apart from most other quantum optical states. For example, they are robust against photon loss and do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Saumya Biswas , Amrit De , Avik Dutt

We study interaction-induced bound states in a system of ultracold bosons loaded into the states with orbital angular momentum in a one-dimensional staggered lattice of rings. We consider the hard-core limit and strong nearest-neighbour…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-11 Yunjia Zhai , Ayaka Usui , Anselmo M. Marques , Ricardo G. Dias , Verònica Ahufinger

We consider a bosonic Josephson junction made of $N$ ultracold and dilute atoms confined by a quasi one-dimensional double-well potential within the two-site Bose-Hubbard model framework. The behaviour of the system is investigated at zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Giovanni Mazzarella , Luca Salasnich , Alberto Parola , Flavio Toigo

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is central to band topology in condensed matter physics, which allows us to understand and design distinct topological states. In this work, we find another mechanism to analogize the SSH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Yuanjun Jin , XingYu Yue , Yong Xu , Xiang-Long Yu , Guoqing Chang

A hallmark of symmetry-protected topological phases (SPTs) are topologically protected boundary states, which are immune to perturbations that respect the protecting symmetry. It is commonly believed that any perturbation that destroys an…

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes the dynamics of spinless fermions in a one-dimensional lattice, with sublattices $A$ and $B$, and governed by staggered hopping potentials $v$ and $w$ representing the intracell and intercell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Dyn Paulo C. Dasallas , Eduardo C. Cuansing

One of the fascinating topological phenomena is the end state in one dimensional system. In this work, the topological photonics in the dimer chains composed by the split ring resonators are revealed based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model.…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Jun Jiang , Zhiwei Guo , Ya-qiong Ding , Yong Sun , Yunhui Li , Haitao Jiang , Hong Chen

In the low momentum regime, the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model's key characteristics are encapsulated by a Dirac-type Hamiltonian in continuum space, i.e., the localized states emerge at the boundaries. Building on this, we have developed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-28 Anirban Ghosh , Andy Martin

Topological insulators are promising for spintronics and related technologies due to their spin-momentum-locked edge states, which are protected by time-reversal symmetry. In addition to the unique fundamental physics that arises in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Antonio Russo , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

The emergence of non equilibrium topological phases in low dimensional systems offers an interesting route for material properties engineering. We analyze the dynamical modulation of two coupled one-dimensional chains, described by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Carla Borja , Esther Gutiérrez , Alexander López

We demonstrate the existence of robust bulk extended states in the disordered Kane-Mele model with vertical and horizontal Zeeman fields, in the presence of a large Rashba coupling. The phase diagrams are mapped out by using level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhong Xu , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing , Emil Prodan , D. N. Sheng

The quantization of conductance in the presence of non-magnetic point defects is a consequence of topological protection and the spin-momentum locking of helical edge states in two-dimensional topological insulators. This protection ensures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Mohadese Karimi , Mohsen Amini , Morteza Soltani , Mozhgan Sadeghizadeh

This paper proposes a quantitative description of the low energy edge states at the interface between two-dimensional topological insulators. They are modeled by continuous Hamiltonians as systems of Dirac equations that are amenable to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Guillaume Bal

The topological phase of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is known to exhibit two edge states that are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. We demonstrate that, for any parameter quench performed on the half-filled SSH chain,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Lorenzo Rossi , Fausto Rossi , Fabrizio Dolcini

We propose a method to create "spin cat states", i.e. macroscopic superpositions of coherent spin states, in Bose-Einstein condensates using the Kerr nonlinearity due to atomic collisions. Based on a detailed study of atom loss, we conclude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Hon Wai Lau , Zachary Dutton , Tian Wang , Christoph Simon

We have investigated spin singlet Mott states of spin-one bosons with antiferromagnetic interactions. These spin singlet states do not break rotational symmetry and exhibit remarkably different macroscopic properties compared with nematic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Fei Zhou , Michiel Snoek

Fock-state lattice (FSL) offers a powerful quantum simulator for topological phenomena due to the unbounded scalability and ease of implementation. Nevertheless, the unique topological properties induced by its site-dependent coupling have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Xing Yao Mi , Yong-Chun Liu , Zhi Jiao Deng , Chun Wang Wu , Ping Xing Chen

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

We consider the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain, which has 0, 1, or 2 topological edge states depending on the ratio of the hopping parameters and the parity of the chain length. We couple a qubit to one edge of the SSH chain and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Meri Zaimi , Christian Boudreault , Nouédyn Baspin , Nicolas Delnour , Hichem Eleuch , Richard MacKenzie , Michael Hilke

Topological properties of quantum systems could provide protection of information against environmental noise, and thereby drastically advance their potential in quantum information processing. Most proposals for topologically protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Péter Boross , János K. Asbóth , Gábor Széchenyi , László Oroszlány , András Pályi