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The bulk-disclination correspondence (BDC) is a fundamental concept in Hermitian systems that has been widely applied to predict disclination states. Recently, disclination states have also been observed and experimentally verified in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Boyuan Li , Zekun Huang , Wenao Wang , Jiaxi Wang , Yu Chen , Shaojie Ma , Ce Shang , Tie Jun Cui , Shuo Liu

In polymer science, cross-linking of polymer chains yields a substantially modified system compared to the one-dimensional constituent chains, due to the increase of dimensionality and effective seeding by defects (cross-linking sites).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 A. Sivan , M. Orenstein

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

We address the effect of nearest-neighbor (NN) interactions on the topological properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain, with alternating hopping amplitudes t1 and t2. Both numerically and analytically, we show that the presence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 A. M. Marques , R. G. Dias

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model has recently received considerable attention in condensed matter because it describes a typical one-dimensional system with topological edge states. Here, we investigate SSH-based charging protocols of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 Fang Zhao , Fu-Quan Dou , Qing Zhao

We propose an resistors, inductors and capacitors (RLC) electrical circuit to theoretically analyze and fully simulate a new type of non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with complex hoppings. We formulate its construction and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 David-Andres Galeano , Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Jorge Mahecha

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

We study the parity- and time-reversal PT symmetric non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with two conjugated imaginary potentials $\pm i\gamma $ at two end sites. The SSH model is known as one of the simplest two-band topological…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-11 Baogang Zhu , Rong Lu , Shu Chen

We employ electric circuit networks to study topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems enriched by parity-time symmetry $\mathcal{PT}$ and chiral symmetry anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ ($\mathcal{APT}$). The topological structure…

We investigate interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains with two- and three-site unit cells using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations. By selecting appropriate filling fractions and sweeping across interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-18 Yuxiao Hang , Stephan Haas

We suggest a method for fast and robust quantum-state transfer in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain, which exploits the use of next-to-nearest-neighbour (NNN) interactions. The proposed quantum protocol combines a rapid change in one of…

The localization property of a non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain with quasi-periodic on-site potential is investigated. In contrast to the preceding investigations, the quantum phase transition between localized state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Guan-Qiang Li , Zhi-Yu Lin , You-Jiao Dong , Ya-Feng Xue , Chun-Yang Ren , Ping Peng

A quench in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice across the topological boundary initialized with an edge state leads to transport across the chain. We consider such a quench in an effective model in which non-Hermitian components are embedded in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Anirban Ghosh , Andy Martin

Geared as an invitation for undergraduates, beginning graduate students, we present a pedagogical introduction to one-dimensional topological phases -- in particular the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. In the process, we delve upon ideas of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anantha Hegde , Adarsh Kumar , Adhip Agarwala , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Exploring topological phases in interacting systems is a challenging task. We investigate many-body topological physics of interacting fermions in an extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which extends the two sublattices of SSH model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-16 Xiaofan Zhou , Jian-Song Pan , Suotang Jia

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, containing dimerized hopping and a constant onsite energy, has become a paradigmatic model for one-dimensional topological phases, soliton excitations and fractionalized charge in the presence of chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-08 Wojciech Brzezicki , Timo Hyart

We investigate the size-dependent behavior of topological zero modes (TZMs) in finite non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains implemented on a topolectrical circuit platform. By deriving exact analytical solutions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Md. Saddam Hossain Razo , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The spectral properties of a non-Hermitian quasi-1D lattice in two of the possible dimerization configurations are investigated. Specifically, it focuses on a non-Hermitian diamond chain that presents a zero-energy flat band. The flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 C. Martínez-Strasser , M. A. J. Herrera , A. García-Etxarri , G. Palumbo , F. K. Kunst , D. Bercioux

We study the Su-Schrieffer-Hegger model, perhaps the simplest realization of a topological insulator, in the presence of an embedded impurity superlattice. We consider the impact of the said impurity by changing the hopping amplitudes…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-09 Julio César Pérez-Pedraza , José Eduardo Barrios-Vargas , Alfredo Raya

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit anomalous scaling, a striking departure from conventional bulk laws, rooted in the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Here, we experimentally uncover this scaling and demonstrate its active control in a temporal…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-30 Shulin Wang , Jiawei He , Zhiyuan Yang , Stefano Longhi , Peng Xue