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The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which captures the most striking transport properties of the conductive organic polymer $trans$-polyacetylene, provides perhaps the most basic model system supporting topological excitations. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-12 Eric J. Meier , Fangzhao Alex An , Bryce Gadway

By introducing the next-nearest-neighboring (NNN) intersite coupling, we investigate the eigenenergies of the $\cal PT$-symmetric non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with two conjugated imaginary potentials at the end sites. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Xue-Si Li , Ze-Zhong Li , Lian-Lian Zhang , Wei-Jiang Gong

We investigate the interplay between the non-Hermitian skin effect and Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) quasiperiodic disorder in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain with nonreciprocal hopping. By exact diagonalization,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Souvik Ghosh

The on-site potentials may break the symmetry of a system, resulting in the loss of its original topology protected by the symmetry. In this work, we study the counteracting effect of non-Hermitian terms on real potentials, resulting in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-09 E. S. Ma , K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

We present a density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) study of the doped one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard-Su-Schrieffer-Hegger (Hubbard-SSH) model, where the atomic displacements linearly modulate the nearest-neighbor hopping integrals.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 Debshikha Banerjee , Jinu Thomas , Alberto Nocera , Steven Johnston

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a prototype model in the field of topological condensed matter physics, and the existence and characteristics of its topological edge states are crucial for revealing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Weibo Xu

We propose a method of computing and studying entanglement quantities in non-Hermitian systems by use of a biorthogonal basis. We find that the entanglement spectrum characterizes the topological properties in terms of the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 Po-Yao Chang , Jhih-Shih You , Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model serves as a canonical example of a one-dimensional topological insulator, yet its behavior under more complex, realistic conditions remains a fertile ground for research. This paper presents a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Souvik Ghosh , Sayak Roy

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a one-dimensional $Z_{2}$ topological insulator, which has two topological distinct phases corresponding to two different dimerizations. When spin-orbit coupling is introduced into the SSH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

If a full band gap closes and then reopens when we continuously deform a periodic system while keeping its symmetry, a topological phase transition usually occurs. A common model demonstrating such a topological phase transition in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Xin Li , Yan Meng , Xiaoxiao Wu , Sheng Yan , Yingzhou Huang , Shuxia Wang , Weijia Wen

Non-Hermitian generalizations of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) models with higher periods of the hopping coefficients, called the SSH3 and SSH4 models, are analyzed. The conventional construction of the winding number fails for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-30 Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien

We study the effect of periodic but commensurate hopping modulation on a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain with an additional onsite staggered imaginary potential. Such dissipative, non-Hermitian (NH) extension amply modifies the features of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Surajit Mandal , Satyaki Kar

We consider a three-dimensional model of coupled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. The analytically soluble model discussed here reliably reproduces the features of the band structure of crystalline polyacetylene as obtained from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-22 Peter Rosenberg , Efstratios Manousakis

We consider a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain to which we attach a semi-infinite undimerized chain (lead) to both ends. We study the effect of the openness of the SSH model on its properties. A representation of the infinite system using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Alexei Bissonnette , Nicolas Delnour , Andrew Mckenna , Hichem Eleuch , Michael Hilke , Richard MacKenzie

A particle-hole symmetry protected 2D non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is investigated. This version differs from the usual Hermitian version by the inclusion of gain and/or loss terms which are represented by complex on-site…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Udai Prakash Tyagi , Partha Goswami

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

We study the interplay of two distinct non-Hermitian parameters: directional coupling and onsite gain-loss, together with topology, in coupled one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. The SSH model represents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

In this paper, we study the topological properties of the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattice by periodically introducing onsite imaginary potentials in the manner of ($i\gamma_1$, $-i\gamma_2$, $-i\gamma_1$, $i\gamma_2$) where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Jia-Rui Li , Lian-Lian Zhang , Wei-Bin Cui , Wei-Jiang Gong

We investigate a non-Hermitian quantum battery based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattice, charged through a parity-time (PT)-symmetric protocol that alternates gain and loss between the two sublattices. The interplay between lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 A-Long Zhou , Ya-Wen Xiao , Nuo Xu , Li-Li Gao , Long-Jie Li , Hang Zhou , Zi-Min Li , Chuan-Cun Shu

We propose an application of a parity-time symmetric non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model by embedded it in a two-dimensional square lattice tube. The coalescence state at the exceptional point of non-Hermitian SSH model is chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-04 K. L. Zhang , L. Jin , Z. Song