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We consider interface modes in block disordered subwavelength resonator chains in one dimension. Based on the capacitance operator formulation, which provides a first-order approximation of the spectral properties of dimer-type block…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Habib Ammari , Jiayu Qiu , Alexander Uhlmann

Topological materials are characterized by integer invariants that underpin their robust quantized electronic features, as famously exemplified by the Chern number in the integer quantum Hall effect. Yet, in most candidate systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Yuval Abulafia , Eric Akkermans

Topological invariants play a key role in the characterization of topological states. Due to the existence of exceptional points, it is a great challenge to detect topological invariants in non-Hermitian systems. We put forward a dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Bo Zhu , Yongguan Ke , Honghua Zhong , Chaohong Lee

In classical Hermitian continuous media, the spectral-flow index of topological modes is linked to the bulk topology via index theorem. However, the interface between two bulks is usually non-Hermitian due to the inhomogeneities of system…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Yichen Fu , Hong Qin

The topological invariant of a topological insulator (or superconductor) is given by the number of symmetry-protected edge states present at the Fermi level. Despite this fact, established expressions for the topological invariant require…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 I. C. Fulga , F. Hassler , A. R. Akhmerov

We discuss the topological phase transition of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermionic Haldane model with repulsive on-site interaction. We show that the Berry curvature of the topological Hamiltonian, the first Chern number, and the topological…

Characteristic classes, which are abstract topological invariants associated with vector bundles, have become an important notion in modern physics with surprising real-world consequences. As a representative example, the incredible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Cody Tipton , Elizabeth Coda , Davis Brown , Alyson Bittner , Jung Lee , Grayson Jorgenson , Tegan Emerson , Henry Kvinge

In this letter we show how the topological number of a static Hamiltonian can be measured from a dynamical quench process. We focus on a two-band Chern insulator in two-dimension, for instance, the Haldane model, whose dynamical process can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-10 Ce Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinlong Yu , Hui Zhai

We proposed a group-theory method to calculate topological invariant in bi-isotropic photonic crystals invariant under crystallographic point group symmetries. Spin Chern number has been evaluated by the eigenvalues of rotation operators at…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-11 Xiao-Dong Chen , Zi-Lan Deng , Wen-Jie Chen , Jia-Rong Wang , Jian-Wen Dong

It is still an outstanding challenge to characterize and understand the topological features of strongly interacting states such as bound-states in interacting quantum systems. Here, by introducing a cotranslational symmetry in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-17 Xizhou Qin , Feng Mei , Yongguan Ke , Li Zhang , Chaohong Lee

Topological phases with broken time-reversal symmetry and Chern number |C|>=2 are of fundamental interest, but it remains unclear how to engineer the desired topological Hamiltonian within the paradigm of spin-orbit-coupled particles…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-09 Abhijeet Alase , David L. Feder

We propose a non-Hermitian generalization of the correspondence between the spectral flow and the topological charges of band crossing points (Berry-Chern monopoles). A class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians that display a complex-valued…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Lucien Jezequel , Pierre Delplace

We extend the theory of topological localised interface modes to systems with damping. The spectral problem is formulated as a root-finding problem for the interface impedance function and Rouch\'e's theorem is used to track the zeros when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Konstantinos Alexopoulos , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

We detect the topological properties of Chern insulators with strong Coulomb interactions by use of cluster perturbation theory and variational cluster approach. The common scheme in previous studies only involves the calculation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-30 Zhao-Long Gu , Kai Li , Jian-Xin Li

We introduce and study the Chern filtration on the cohomology of the moduli of bundles on curves. This can be viewed as a natural cohomological invariant defined via tautological classes that interpolates between additive Betti numbers and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Woonam Lim , Miguel Moreira , Weite Pi

We study topological phases of interacting systems in two spatial dimensions in the absence of topological order (i.e. with a unique ground state on closed manifolds and no fractional excitations). These are the closest interacting analogs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-15 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ashvin Vishwanath

A hallmark feature of topological physics is the presence of one-way propagating chiral modes at the system boundary. The chirality of edge modes is a consequence of the topological character of the bulk. For example, in a non-interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sunil Mittal , Sriram Ganeshan , Jingyun Fan , Abolhassan Vaezi , Mohammad Hafezi

The high-Chern number phases with a Chern number C>1 have been observed in a recent experiment that performed on the topological insulator (TI) multilayer structures, consisting of the alternating magnetic-doped and undoped TI layers. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

We argue that various kinds of topological insulators (TIs) can be insightfully characterized by an inspection of the charge centers of the hybrid Wannier functions, defined as the orbitals obtained by carrying out a Wannier transform on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Maryam Taherinejad , Kevin F. Garrity , David Vanderbilt

The mode-shell correspondence relates the number $I_M$ of gapless modes in phase space to a topological \textit{shell invariant} $\Ish$ defined on a close surface -- the shell -- surrounding those modes, namely $I_M=I_S$. In part I, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Lucien Jezequel , Pierre Delplace