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Cavity materials are a frontier to investigate the role of light-matter interactions on the properties of electronic phases of matter. In this work, we raise a fundamental question: can non-local interactions mediated by cavity photons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-21 Daniel Shaffer , Martin Claassen , Ajit Srivastava , Luiz H. Santos

Cavities play a fundamental role in wave phenomena from quantum mechanics to electromagnetism and dictate the spatiotemporal physics of lasers. In general, they are constructed by closing all "doors" through which waves can escape. We…

Topological insulators are a new class of materials that have attracted significant attention in contemporary condensed matter physics. They are different from the regular insulators and they display novel quantum properties that also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Navketan Batra , Goutam Sheet

Topological insulating phases are primarily associated with condensed-matter systems, which typically feature short-range interactions. Nevertheless, many realizations of quantum matter can exhibit long-range interactions, and it is still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Pedro Nevado , Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo , Diego Porras

In this work, we present a theory for topological phases for quantum systems on tree graphs. Conventionally, topological phases of matter have been studied in regular lattices, but also in quasicrystals and amorphous settings. We consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Alex Westström , Wenbu Duan , Kangpei Yao , Xiaonan Wang , Jie Liu , Jian Li

We employ electric circuit networks to study topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems enriched by parity-time symmetry $\mathcal{PT}$ and chiral symmetry anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ ($\mathcal{APT}$). The topological structure…

Supramolecular device (SMD) with topological end states and a noncovalent junction is rarely investigated but deemed promising for thermoelectric (TE) applications. We designed a new kind of SMD based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Wenlai Mu , Nisar Muhammad , Huaihong Guo , Zsolt Gulacsi , Teng Yang , Zhidong Zhang

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are unusual solutions of wave equations describing light or matter: they are discrete and spatially bounded, but exist at the same energy as a continuum of states which propagate to infinity. Until…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-24 Bo Zhen , Chia Wei Hsu , Ling Lu , A. Doug Stone , Marin Soljacic

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, containing dimerized hopping and a constant onsite energy, has become a paradigmatic model for one-dimensional topological phases, soliton excitations and fractionalized charge in the presence of chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-08 Wojciech Brzezicki , Timo Hyart

The canonical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is one of the basic geometries that have spurred significant interest in topologically nontrivial bandgap modes with robust properties. Here, we show that the inclusion of suitable third-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Yakir Hadad , Alexander B. Khanikaev , Andrea Alu

The erratic nature of chaotic behavior is thought to erode the stability of periodic behavior, including topological oscillations. However, we discover that in the presence of chaos, non-trivial topology not only endures but also provides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Haydar Sahin , Hakan Akgün , Zhuo Bin Siu , S. M. Rafi-Ul-Islam , Jian Feng Kong , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Ching Hua Lee

Low-decoherence regime plays a key role in constructing multi-particle quantum systems and has therefore been constantly pursued in order to build quantum simulators and quantum computers in a scalable fashion. Quantum error correction and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 Yao Wang , Xiao-Ling Pang , Yong-Heng Lu , Jun Gao , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Hao Tang , Xian-Min Jin

Implementation of topology on photonics has opened new functionalities of photonic systems such as topologically protected boundary modes. We present polarization-dependent topological properties in 2D Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice by using…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-04 Minkyung Kim , Junsuk Rho

We show that topologically protected defect states can exist in open (leaky or lossy) systems even when these systems are topologically trivial in the closed limit. The states appear from within the continuum, thus in absence of a band gap,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-12 Simon Malzard , Charles Poli , Henning Schomerus

The interaction between the quantum emitter and topological photonic system makes both the emitter and the photon behave in exotic ways. We here study a system that a giant atom is coupled to two points of a one-dimensional topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Weijun Cheng , Zhihai Wang , Yu-xi Liu

Topological properties of quantum systems are one of the most intriguing emerging phenomena in condensed matter physics. A crucial property of topological systems is the symmetry-protected robustness towards local noise. Experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Guliuxin Jin , Eliska Greplova

We study continuations of topological edge states in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with on-site cubic (Kerr) nonlinearity, which is a 1D nonlinear photonic topological insulator (TI). Based on the topology of the underlying spatial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-28 Y. -P. Ma , H. Susanto

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quantum states that remain localized despite existing within a continuum of extended, delocalized states. They defy conventional wave theories and could be instrumental for quantum technologies that…

Symmetry-protected topological phases cannot be described by any local order parameter and are beyond the conventional symmetry-breaking paradigm for understanding quantum matter. They are characterized by topological boundary states robust…

One of the most striking features of quantum mechanics is the appearance of phases of matter with topological origins. These phases result in remarkably robust macroscopic phenomena such as the edge modes in integer quantum Hall systems,…