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In this paper we investigate different types of couplings used in acoustic metamaterials requiring preservation of symmetries. For testing we use the SSH model to test whether topologically edge and interface modes are supported with the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Ssu-Ying Chen , Camelia Prodan

The hybrid atoms-cell site entanglement in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) topological insulator with first and second neighbor hopping interaction in space representation of finite chains is analyzed. The geometric phase is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Francisco A. Domínguez-Serna , F. Rojas

Topological insulator lie at the forefront of condensed matter physics. However strong disorder can destroy the topological states and make all states become localized. In this paper, we investigate the competition between topology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Xin Guan , Gang Chen

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model on a two-dimensional square lattice has been considered as a significant platform for studying topological multipole insulators. However, due to the highly-degenerate bulk energy bands protected by $…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Zhang-Zhao Yang , An-Yang Guan , Wen-Jie Yang , Xin-Ye Zou , Jian-Chun Cheng

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

We investigate a variant of the SSH model consisting of an SSH chain with an embedded Aharonov-Bohm quantum ring. The embedded ring gives rise to domain wall states whose energy levels are in the band gap. The dependence of some of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-08 A. P. Garrido , A. R. Plastino , M. L. Ladrón de Guevara , V. M. Apel

We perform digital quantum simulations of the noninteracting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using a parameterized quantum circuit. The circuit comprises two main components: the first prepares the initial state from the product state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Qing Xie , Kazuhiro Seki , Tomonori Shirakawa , Seiji Yunoki

A striking feature of cavity quantum electrodynamics is the existence of atom-photon bound states, which typically form when the coupling between the atom and its environment are strong enough that after de-excitation the atom can ``grab''…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Savannah Garmon , Gonzalo Ordonez , Kenichi Noba

Symmetry-protected topological phases of matter, characterized by non-trivial band topology, are spectrally gapped and show non-trivial boundary phenomena. Here, we show that scattering states when interjected by an array of periodically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Rahul Singh , Ritajit Kundu , Arijit Kundu , Adhip Agarwala

A chiral symmetric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain features topological end states in one of its dimerized configurations. Those mid-gap zero energy states show interesting modifications upon a periodic tuning of the hopping modulations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-15 Surajit Mandal , Satyaki Kar

This communication presents an examination of a two-dimensional, non-Hermitian Su -Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which is differentiated from its conventional Hermitian counterpart by incorporating gain and/or loss terms, mathematically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Udai Prakash Tyagi , Partha Goswami

We construct a family of chiral symmetry-protected third-order topological insulators by stacking Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains and provide a unified topological characterization by a series of Bott indices. Our approach is informed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Xun-Jiang Luo , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao , Fengcheng Wu

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

Topological insulators are a class of electronic materials exhibiting robust edge states immune to perturbations and disorder. This concept has been successfully adapted in photonics, where topologically nontrivial waveguides and…

The ability to tailor with a high accuracy the inter-site connectivity in a lattice is a crucial tool for realizing novel topological phases of matter. Here, we report the experimental realization of photonic dimer chains with long-range…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-06 F. Pellerin , R. Houvenaghel , W. A. Coish , I. Carusotto , P. St-Jean

We design a setup to realize tunable topological phases in elastic photonic crystals. Using the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model as a canonical example, we show how a system can be continuously tuned across its topological phase transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Ehsan Saei Ghareh Naz , Ion Cosma Fulga , Libo Ma , Oliver G. Schmidt , Jeroen van den Brink

We show that higher-order topological insulators can be created from usual square structure by twisting waveguides in each unit cell around the axis passing through the center of the unit cell, even without changing intracell distance…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-28 Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Atomic-scale control of light-matter interactions represent the ultimate frontier for many applications in photonics and quantum technology. Two-dimensional semiconductors, including transition metal dichalcogenides, are a promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 John M. Woods , Saroj B. Chand , Enrique Mejia , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Johannes Flick , Gabriele Grosso

In this work, we investigate a two-dimensional system of ultracold bosonic atoms inside an optical cavity, and show how photon-mediated interactions give rise to a plaquette-ordered bond pattern in the atomic ground state. The latter…

In this work, we present a novel investigation into the spin-dependent thermoelectric performance of an extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, showcasing for the first time how its intrinsic spin filtration mechanism can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ranjini Bhattacharya , Souvik Roy