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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

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

In many contexts, the interaction between particles gives rise to emergent and perhaps unanticipated physical phenomena. An example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, where interaction between electrons gives rise to fractionally…

Thouless pumps are topologically nontrivial states of matter with quantized charge transport, which can be realized in atomic gases loaded into an optical lattice. This topological state is analogous to the quantum Hall state. However,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-04 Pasquale Marra , Muneto Nitta

One of the hallmarks of topological systems is the robust quantization of particle transport. It is the origin of the integer-valued quantum Hall conductivity and a potential tool for quantum information technology. Recent experiments on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Julius Bohm , Hugo Gerlitz , Christina Jörg , Michael Fleischhauer

A spin strongly driven by two harmonic incommensurate drives can pump energy from one drive to the other at a quantized average rate, in close analogy with the quantum Hall effect. The pumping rate is a non-zero integer in the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Philip J. D. Crowley , Ivar Martin , Anushya Chandran

Topological quantum pumps are topologically equivalent to the quantum Hall state: In these systems, the charge pumped during each pumping cycle is quantized and coincides with the Chern invariant. However, differently from quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro

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…

Based on a quasi-one-dimensional limit of quantum Hall states on a thin torus, we construct a model of interaction-induced topological pumping which mimics the Hall response of the bosonic integer quantum Hall (BIQH) state. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-18 Masaya Nakagawa , Shunsuke Furukawa

Topological Thouless pumping and Aharonov-Bohm effect are both fundamental effects enabled by the topological properties of the system. Here, we study both effects together: topological pumping of interacting particles through Aharonov-Bohm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Tobias Haug , Rainer Dumke , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Luigi Amico

A one-dimensional quantum charge pump transfers a quantized charge in each pumping cycle. This quantization is topologically robust being analogous to the quantum Hall effect. The charge transferred in a fraction of the pumping period is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-27 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro , Carmine Ortix

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,…

The study of topological effects in physics is a hot area, and only recently researchers were able to address the important issues of topological properties of interacting quantum systems. But it is still a great challenge to describe…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-05 Yongguan Ke , Xizhou Qin , Yuri S. Kivshar , Chaohong Lee

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

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

The Thouless theory of quantum pumps establishes the conditions for quantized particle transport per cycle, and determines its value. When describing the pump from a moving reference frame, transported and existing charges transform, though…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Tilman Esslinger , Gian Michele Graf , Filippo Santi

The interplay between nonlinear and topological physics has led to intriguing emergent phenomena, such as quantized and fractionally quantized Thouless pumping of solitons dictated by the topological invariants of the underlying band…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ankitkumar Maisuriya , Siddhi Mali , Sunil Mittal

Photonic systems provide a highly tunable platform for emulating quantum Hall physics. This tunability enables probing of the interplay between strong disorder and robust topological transport that remains difficult to access in solid-state…

Geometric properties of waves and wave functions can explain the appearance of integer-valued observables throughout physics. For example, these 'topological' invariants describe the plateaux observed in the quantised Hall effect and the…

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