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Thouless charge pumps are quantum mechanical devices whose operation relies on topology. They provide the means for transporting quantum matter in space lattices with a single quantum precision. Contrasting space crystals that spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tapio Simula , Niels Kjærgaard , Tilman Pfau

Non-Abelian Thouless pumping intertwines adiabatic quantum control and topological quantum transport and it holds potential for quantum metrology and computing. In this work, we introduce a ladder model featuring two doubly-degenerate bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Carlo Danieli , Valentina Brosco , Laura Pilozzi , Roberta Citro

The sharply quantized transport observed in the integer quantum Hall effect can be explained via a simple one-dimensional model with a time-periodic, adiabatically varying potential in which electronic charge is pumped from one side of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-05 Marius Jürgensen , Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman

A topological 'Thouless' pump represents the quantised motion of particles in response to a slow, cyclic modulation of external control parameters. The Thouless pump, like the quantum Hall effect, is of fundamental interest in physics…

Thouless pump is a one-dimensional dynamic topological effect that stems from the same topological mechanism as the renowned two-dimensional Chern insulators, with one momentum dimension replaced by a time variant evolution parameter. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Oubo You , Shanjun Liang , Biye Xie , Wenlong Gao , Weimin Ye , Jie Zhu , Shuang Zhang

A gas of electrons in a one-dimensional periodic potential can be transported even in the absence of a voltage bias if the potential is modulated slowly and periodically in time. Remarkably, the transferred charge per cycle is only…

The transfer of conserved charges through insulating matter via smooth deformations of the Hamiltonian is known as quantum adiabatic, or Thouless, pumping. Central to this phenomenon are Hamiltonians whose insulating gap is controlled by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Pedro L. S. Lopes , Pouyan Ghaemi , Shinsei Ryu , Taylor L. Hughes

Thouless pumping provides one of the simplest manifestations of topology in quantum systems, and has attracted a lot of recent interest, both theoretically and experimentally. Since the seminal works by Thouless and Niu in 1983 and 1984, it…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-13 Roberta Citro , Monika Aidelsburger

Thouless pumping is a mechanism to perform topologically protected transport of particles by adiabatically modulating the Hamiltonian. The transported current is a topological invariant that is intimately related to the integer quantum Hall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 V. M. Bastidas

Thouless pumping is an emblematic manifestation of topology in physics, referring to the ability to induce a quantized transport of charge across a system by simply varying one of its parameters periodically in time. The original concept of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 S. Ravets , N. Pernet , N. Mostaan , N. Goldman , J. Bloch

Thouless pumps are time-periodic one-dimensional systems that capture the physics of the two-dimensional quantum Hall effect via the quantized pumping of particles under adiabatic modulation. Recent work in photonics has shown that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-21 Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Quantized dynamics is essential for natural processes and technological applications alike. The work of Thouless on quantized particle transport in slowly varying potentials (Thouless pumping) has played a key role in understanding that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Zlata Fedorova , Haixin Qiu , Stefan Linden , Johann Kroha

We theoretically introduce synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields for topological quantum walks. The photonic mesh lattice configuration is generalized with polarization multiplexing to achieve a four-dimensional Hilbert space, based on which…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-05 Zehai Pang , Omar Abdelghani , Marin Soljačić , Yi Yang

Adiabatic cyclic modulation of a one-dimensional periodic potential will result in quantized charge transport, which is termed the Thouless pump. In contrast to the original Thouless pump restricted by the topology of the energy band, here…

The ability to pump quantised amounts of charge is one of the hallmarks of topological materials. An archetypical example is Laughlin's gauge argument for transporting an integer number of electrons between the edges of a quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Mariya A. Lizunova , Florian Schreck , Cristiane Morais Smith , Jasper van Wezel

The dynamics of solitons driven in a nonlinear Thouless pump and its connection with the system's topology were recently explored for both weak and strong nonlinear strength. This work uncovers the fate of nonlinear Thouless pumping in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-09-12 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

Introduced by David Thouless in 1983, Thouless pumping exemplifies topological properties in topological systems, where the transported charge is quantized by the Chern number. Recently, returning Thouless pumping was theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Zheyu Cheng , Sijie Yue , Yang Long , Wentao Xie , Zixuan Yu , Hau Tian Teo , Y. X. Zhao , Haoran Xue , Baile 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

More than 30 years ago, Thouless introduced the concept of a topological charge pump that would enable the robust transport of charge through an adiabatic cyclic evolution of the underlying Hamiltonian. In contrast to classical transport,…

Nonlinear Thouless pumping has been established in periodic lattices; its counterpart in quasiperiodic lattices remains unexplored. Here, we show a nonlinear topological pumping of gap solitons in quasiperiodic lattices where the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Xiao-Xiao Hu , Dun Zhao , Hong-Gang Luo
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