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Metamaterials engineered to host topological states of matter in controllable quantum systems hold promise for the advancement of quantum simulations and quantum computing technologies. In this context, the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model…

A particle-hole symmetry protected 2D non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is investigated. This version differs from the usual Hermitian version by the inclusion of gain and/or loss terms which are represented by complex on-site…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Udai Prakash Tyagi , Partha Goswami

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

A dimerized fermion chain, described by Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, is a well-known example of 1D system with a non-trivial band topology. An interplay of disorder and topological ordering in the SSH model is of a great interest owing…

The on-site potentials may break the symmetry of a system, resulting in the loss of its original topology protected by the symmetry. In this work, we study the counteracting effect of non-Hermitian terms on real potentials, resulting in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-09 E. S. Ma , K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

We propose a method of computing and studying entanglement quantities in non-Hermitian systems by use of a biorthogonal basis. We find that the entanglement spectrum characterizes the topological properties in terms of the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 Po-Yao Chang , Jhih-Shih You , Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu

Externally controllable band gap properties of a material is crucial in designing optoelectronic devices with desirable properties on-demand. Here, a possibility of single parameter tuning of trivial to non-trivial topological band gap by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Bikashkali Midya

If a full band gap closes and then reopens when we continuously deform a periodic system while keeping its symmetry, a topological phase transition usually occurs. A common model demonstrating such a topological phase transition in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Xin Li , Yan Meng , Xiaoxiao Wu , Sheng Yan , Yingzhou Huang , Shuxia Wang , Weijia Wen

We propose an anti-parity-time (anti-PT ) symmetric non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, where the large non-Hermiticity constructively creates nontrivial topology and greatly expands the topological phase. In the anti-PT…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit many peculiar dynamic behaviors which never showed up in Hermitian systems. The existence of spectral singularity (SS) for a non-Hermitian scattering center provides a lasing mechanism in the context of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 K. L. Zhang , P. Wang , Z. Song

We investigate a non-Hermitian quantum battery based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattice, charged through a parity-time (PT)-symmetric protocol that alternates gain and loss between the two sublattices. The interplay between lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 A-Long Zhou , Ya-Wen Xiao , Nuo Xu , Li-Li Gao , Long-Jie Li , Hang Zhou , Zi-Min Li , Chuan-Cun Shu

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

We report an experimental study of the disordered Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, implemented in a system of coaxial cables, whose radio frequency properties map on to the SSH Hamiltonian. By measuring multiple chains with random hopping…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-21 D. M. Whittaker , Maxine M. McCarthy , Qingqing Duan

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains are the simplest model systems that display topological edge states. We calculate high-harmonic spectra of SSH chains that are coupled to an external laser field of a frequency much smaller than the band…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 Hannah Jürß , Dieter Bauer

The union of topology and non-Hermiticity has led to the unveiling of many intriguing phenomena. We introduce a synthetic spin-engineered model belonging to symmetry class AI, which is a rare occurrence, and demonstrate the emergence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Ronika Sarkar , Ayan Banerjee , Awadhesh Narayan

We demonstrate dynamical topological phase transitions in evolving Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattices made of interacting soliton arrays, which are entirely driven by nonlinearity and thereby exemplify emergent nonlinear topological…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-05-17 Domenico Bongiovanni , Dario Jukić , Zhichan Hu , Frane Lunić , Yi Hu , Daohong Song , Roberto Morandotti , Zhigang Chen , Hrvoje Buljan

The bulk-boundary correspondence is among the central issues of non-Hermitian topological states. We show that a previously overlooked `non-Hermitian skin effect' necessitates redefinition of topological invariants in a generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

The non-Hermitian systems exhibit extreme sensitivity to the boundary conditions. The change in the eigenspectrum with tunning boundary parameter is intimately connected to the non-Hermitian skin effect. The single-particle systems are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-21 Kuldeep Suthar

We propose and systematically analyze a practical scheme for implementing a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model using individually addressable Rydberg atom arrays. Our setup consists of an atomic chain with three-atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 J. N. Bai , F. Yang , D. Yan , Weibin Li , X. Q. Shao

It is shown that quantum walks on one-dimensional arrays of special linear-optical units allow the simulation of discrete-time Hamiltonian systems with distinct topological phases. In particular, a slightly modified version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 David S. Simon , Casey A. Fitzpatrick , Shuto Osawa , Alexander V. Sergienko