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Decades of research have revealed a deep understanding of topological quantum matter with protected edge modes. We report that even richer physics emerges when tuning between two topological phases of matter whose respective edge modes are…

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Topological phases support edge states that can be robust to material deformations and other perturbations. While well-studied in quantum systems, topological phases have also been observed in stochastic and biochemical systems, yet it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-06 Ziyin Xiong , Aleksandra Nelson , Evelyn Tang

Topological edge states arise in parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric non-unitary quantum dynamics but have so far only been discussed in the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry-unbroken regime. Here we report the experimental detection of robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Lei Xiao , Xingze Qiu , Kunkun Wang , Barry C. Sanders , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Despite the extensive studies of topological states, their characterization in strongly nonlinear classical systems has been lacking. In this work, we identify the proper definition of Berry phase for nonlinear bulk modes and characterize…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-22 Di Zhou , D. Zeb Rocklin , Michael Leamy , Yugui Yao

Nonlinear interaction enables topological phenomena impossible in linear systems. A paradigm is nonlinear Thouless pump, where the transport of solitons can be topologically quantized even when band occupation is nonuniform. Such nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-01 Xuzhen Cao , Xiaolin Li , Liang Bai , Zhaoxin Liang , Li-Chen Zhao , Ying Hu

Non-Hermiticity can vary the topology of system, induce topological phase transition, and even invalidate the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we show the introducing of non-Hermiticity without affecting the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 K. L. Zhang , H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

Topological photonics has recently emerged as a route to realize robust optical circuitry, and nonlinear effects are expected to enable tunability of topological states with the light intensity. Here we realize experimentally nonlinear…

We present sufficient conditions under which a given linear nonautonomous system and its nonlinear perturbation are topologically conjugated. Our conditions are of a very general form and provided that the nonlinear perturbations are…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Lucas Backes , Davor Dragičević

The Topological Hypothesis states that phase transitions should be related to changes in the topology of configuration space. The necessity of such changes has already been demonstrated. We characterize exactly the topology of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Risau-Gusman , A. C. Ribeiro-Teixeira , D. A. Stariolo

A new design paradigm of topology has recently emerged to manipulate the flow of phonons. At its heart lies a topological transition to a nontrivial state with exotic properties. This framework has been limited to linear lattice dynamics so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Rajesh Chaunsali , Georgios Theocharis

Generalizing an earlier definition of the noncyclic geometric phase (R.Bhandari, Phys.Lett.A, 157, 221 (1991)), a nonmodular topological phase is defined with reference to a generic time-dependent two-slit interference experiment involving…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rajendra Bhandari

The flourishing of topological photonics in the last decade was achieved mainly due to developments in linear topological photonic structures. However, when nonlinearity is introduced, many intriguing questions arise. For example, are there…

We consider the analogy between the topological phase transition which occurs as a function of spatial coordinate on a surface of a non-trivial insulator, and the one which occurs in the bulk due to the change of internal parameters (such…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-06 Stanislav Chadov , Janos Kiss , Jürgen Kübler , Claudia Felser

We study the classical dynamics of a system comprising a pair of Kerr-Duffing nonlinear oscillators, which are coupled through a nonlinear interaction and subjected to a parametric drive. Using the rotating wave approximation (RWA), we…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 F. Hellbach , D. De Bernardis , M. Saur , I. Carusotto , W. Belzig , G. Rastelli

We propose a scheme to realize a topological insulator with optical-passive elements, and analyze the effects of Kerr-nonlinearities in its topological behavior. In the linear regime, our design gives rise to an optical spectrum with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 T. Shi , H. J. Kimble , J. I. Cirac

Knot theory provides a powerful tool for the understanding of topological matters in biology, chemistry, and physics. Here knot theory is introduced to describe topological phases in the quantum spin system. Exactly solvable models with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-24 X. M. Yang , L. Jin , Z. Song

We present the results of a recent investigation of the short-distance structure of non-perturbative interaction between light quarks. We analyze the connection between topology and the dynamics responsible for the spontaneous breaking of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Faccioli , T. A. DeGrand

We classify symmetry-protected and symmetry-breaking dynamical solutions for nonlinear saturable bosonic systems that display a non-hermitian charge-conjugation symmetry, as realized in a series of recent groundbreaking experiments with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Simon Malzard , Emiliano Cancellieri , Henning Schomerus

The classification of topological states of matter in terms of unitary symmetries and dimensionality predicts the existence of nontrivial topological states even in zero-dimensional systems, i.e., a system with a discrete energy spectrum.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Pasquale Marra , Alessandro Braggio , Roberta Citro

Particle-hole symmetry and chiral symmetry play a pivotal role in multiple areas of physics, yet they remain unstudied in systems with nonlinear interactions whose nonlinear normal modes do not exhibit $\textbf{U}(1)$-gauge symmetry. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-28 Di Zhou