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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…

The discovery of the quantization of particle transport in adiabatic pumping cycles of periodic structures by Thouless [Phys. Rev. B 27, 6083 (1983)] linked the Chern number, a topological invariant characterizing the quantum Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Jiho Noh , Mohan Wang , Sheng Huang , Kevin P. Chen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Quantized particle or spin transport upon cyclic parameter variations, determined by topological invariants, is a key signature of Chern insulators in the ground state. While measurable many-body observables exist that preserve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Lukas Wawer , Razmik Unanyan , Michael Fleischhauer

Thouless pump with quantized transports is topologically robust against small perturbations and disorders, while breaks down under sufficiently strong disorders. Here we propose counter-intuitive topological pumps induced by disorders in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-29 Yi-Piao Wu , Ling-Zhi Tang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

Adiabatic cyclic modulation of a one-dimensional periodic potential will result in quantized charge transport, which is termed the Thouless pump. In contrast to the original Thouless pump restricted by the topology of the energy band, here…

Recent progress in synthetic lattice systems has opened the door to novel explorations of topological matter. In particular, photonic devices and ultracold matter waves offer the unique possibility of studying the rich interplay between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nader Mostaan , Fabian Grusdt , Nathan Goldman

Particle-particle interaction provides a new degree of freedom to induce novel topological phenomena. Here, we propose to use spatiotemporal modulation of interaction to realize topological pumping without single-particle counterpart.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Boning Huang , Yongguan Ke , Wenjie Liu , Chaohong Lee

Quantization of particle transport lies at the heart of topological physics. In Thouless pumps - dimensionally reduced versions of the integer quantum Hall effect - quantization is dictated by the integer winding of single-band Wannier…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-28 Marius Jürgensen , Jacob Steiner , Gil Refael , Mikael C. Rechtsman

We study the scattering theory of delicate topological insulators (TIs), which are novel topological phases beyond the paradigm of the tenfold way, topological quantum chemistry, and the symmetry indicator method. We demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Penghao Zhu , Jiho Noh , Yingkai Liu , Taylor L. Hughes

The bulk-boundary correspondence relates quantized edge states to bulk topological invariants in topological phases of matter. In one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological systems (SPTs), quantized topological Thouless pumps directly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-20 Julian F. Wienand , Friederike Horn , Monika Aidelsburger , Julian Bibo , Fabian Grusdt

The Thouless charge pump represents a transfer of electric charge through a gapped one-dimensional system between its zero-dimensional boundaries under a periodic change of a parameter. The value of the passed charged during a single cycle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Lev Spodyneiko

We study the quantum Hall plateau transition on rectangular tori. As the aspect ratio of the torus is increased, the two-dimensional critical behavior, characterized by a subthermodynamic number of topological states in a vanishing energy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-28 Matteo Ippoliti , R. N. Bhatt

The transfer of conserved charges through insulating matter via smooth deformations of the Hamiltonian is known as quantum adiabatic, or Thouless, pumping. Central to this phenomenon are Hamiltonians whose insulating gap is controlled by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Pedro L. S. Lopes , Pouyan Ghaemi , Shinsei Ryu , Taylor L. Hughes

In Thouless pumping, although non-flat band has no effects on the quantization of particle transport, it induces wave-packet dispersion which hinders the practical applications of Thouless pumping. Indeed, we find that the dispersion mainly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Shi Hu , Yongguan Ke , Yuangang Deng , Chaohong Lee

A topological pump enables robust transport of quantized particles when the system parameters are varied in a cyclic process. In previous studies, topological pump was achieved inhomogeneous systems guaranteed by a topological invariant of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Bi-Ye Xie , Oubo You , Shuang Zhang

Thouless pumping is a fundamental phenomenon recognized as being widespread across various areas of physics, with optics holding a particularly prominent role. Here, we study this effect for optical solitons in a medium where the refractive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-09 Fangwei Ye , Aidar H. Ryazhapov , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new quantum state of matter discovered recently, which are characterized by unconventional bulk topological invariants. Proposals for practical applications of the TIs are mostly based upon their metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 M. N. Chen , L. Sheng , R. Shen , D. N. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Nonlinear Thouless pumping has been established in periodic lattices; its counterpart in quasiperiodic lattices remains unexplored. Here, we show a nonlinear topological pumping of gap solitons in quasiperiodic lattices where the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Xiao-Xiao Hu , Dun Zhao , Hong-Gang Luo

A Thouless pump can be regarded as a dynamical version of the integer quantum Hall effect. In a finite-size configuration, such topological pump displays edge modes that emerge dynamically from one bulk-band and dive into the opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Wenting Cheng , Emil Prodan , Camelia Prodan

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…