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We demonstrate that multipartite entanglement is able to characterize one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological order, which is witnessed by the scaling behavior of the quantum Fisher information of the ground state with respect to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Yu-Ran Zhang , Yu Zeng , Heng Fan , J. Q. You , Franco Nori

We propose a realization of a two-dimensional higher-order topological insulator with ultracold atoms loaded into orbital angular momentum (OAM) states of an optical lattice. The symmetries of the OAM states induce relative phases in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-11 G. Pelegrí , A. M. Marques , V. Ahufinger , J. Mompart , R. G. Dias

We study disorder effects in a two-dimensional system with chiral symmetry and find that disorder can induce a quadrupole topological insulating phase (a higher-order topological phase with quadrupole moments) from a topologically trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yan-Bin Yang , Kai Li , L. -M. Duan , Yong Xu

We present a constructive method utilizing the Cartan decomposition to characterize topological properties and their connection to two-qubit quantum entanglement, in the framework of the tenfold classification and Wootters' concurrence.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Nadav Orion , Eric Akkermans

Calculation of topological invariants for crystalline systems is well understood in reciprocal space, allowing for the topological classification of a wide spectrum of materials. In this work, we present a new technique based on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-28 Alejandro José Uría-Álvarez , Daniel Molpeceres-Mingo , Juan José Palacios

Topological photonics revolutionizes some of the traditional approaches to light propagation and manipulation, and it provides unprecedented means for developing novel photonic devices. Recently discovered higher-order topological phases go…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Yafeng Chen , Fei Meng , Yuri Kivshar , Baohua Jia , Xiaodong Huang

We study second-order topological insulators and semimetals characterized by chiral symmetry. We investigate topological phase transitions of a model for construction of the two-dimensional second-order topological insulators protected only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryo Okugawa , Shin Hayashi , Takeshi Nakanishi

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in higher-order topological phases (HOTPs) across various disciplines within the field of physics. These unique phases are characterized by their ability to harbor topological protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Chunbo Hua , Dong-Hui Xu

Topological insulators and superconductors at finite temperature can be characterized by the topological Uhlmann phase. However, a direct experimental measurement of this invariant has remained elusive in condensed matter systems. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 O. Viyuela , A. Rivas , S. Gasparinetti , A. Wallraff , S. Filipp , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Recently, a new family of symmetry-protected higher-order topological insulators has been proposed and was shown to host lower-dimensional boundary states. However, with the existence of the strong disorder in the bulk, the crystal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Jiacheng Bao , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

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

Entanglement measures find frequent application in the study of topologically ordered systems, where the presence of topological order is reflected in an additional contribution to the entanglement of the system. Obtaining this topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-07 Claudio Castelnovo

High-order topological insulators are a recent development extending the topological theory of charge polarization to higher multipole moments. Since their theoretical proposal, several experimental realizations of high-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Marc Serra-Garcia , Roman Süsstrunk , Sebastian D. Huber

We numerically verify and analytically prove a winding number invariant that correctly predicts the number of edge states in one-dimensional, nearest-neighbor (between unit cells), two-band models with any complex couplings and open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Janet Zhong , Heming Wang , Alexander N Poddubny , Shanhui Fan

A charged entanglement entropy is a new measure which probes quantum entanglement between different charge sectors. We study symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in 2+1 dimensional space-time by using this charged entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-11 Shunji Matsuura , Xueda Wen , Ling-Yan Hung , Shinsei Ryu

We analyze the computational aspects of detecting topological order in a quantum many-body system. We contrast the widely used topological entanglement entropy with a recently introduced operational definition for topological order based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Louis Fraatz , Amit Jamadagni , Hendrik Weimer

We present universal characteristics of quantum entanglement and topology through virtual entanglement modes that fluctuate into existence in subsystem measurements. For generic interacting systems and extensive conserved quantities, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Kim Pöyhönen , Ali G. Moghaddam , Teemu Ojanen

Strongly correlated analogues of topological insulators have been explored in systems with purely on-site symmetries, such as time-reversal or charge conservation. Here, we use recently developed tensor network tools to study a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Brayden Ware , Itamar Kimchi , S. A. Parameswaran , Bela Bauer

We investigate topological properties of density matrices motivated by the question to what extent phenomena like topological insulators and superconductors can be generalized to mixed states in the framework of open quantum systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Jan Carl Budich , Sebastian Diehl

We propose a topological order parameter for interacting topological insulators, expressed in terms of the full Green's functions of the interacting system. We show that it is exactly quantized for a time reversal invariant topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Zhong Wang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang