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Recent studies have shown that a soliton can be {\it fractionally} transported by slowly varying a system parameter over one period in a nonlinear system. This phenomenon is attributed to the nontrivial topology of the corresponding energy…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-11 Yu-Liang Tao , Yongping Zhang , Yong Xu

The interplay between nonlinear and topological physics has led to intriguing emergent phenomena, such as quantized and fractionally quantized Thouless pumping of solitons dictated by the topological invariants of the underlying band…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ankitkumar Maisuriya , Siddhi Mali , Sunil Mittal

It has recently been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed that a soliton resulting from nonlinearity can be pumped across an integer or fractional number of unit cells as a system parameter is slowly varied over a pump…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-21 Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

The nonlinear Thouless pumping is an exciting frontier of topological physics. While recent works have revealed the quantized motion of solitons in Thouless pumps, the interplay between the topology, nonlinearity and disorder remains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-19 Xuzhen Cao , Chunyu Jia , Ying Hu , Zhaoxin Liang

The dynamics of solitons driven in a nonlinear Thouless pump and its connection with the system's topology were recently explored for both weak and strong nonlinear strength. This work uncovers the fate of nonlinear Thouless pumping in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-09-12 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

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

We investigate the dynamics of nonlinear optical Thouless pumps in the presence of disorder, using optical waveguide arrays. It was previously known that the displacement of solitons in Thouless pumps is quantized and may exhibit integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Abhijit P. Chaudhari , Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

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

Recent explorations of quantized solitons transport in optical waveguides have thrust nonlinear topological pumping into the spotlight. In this work, we introduce a unified topological invariant applicable across both weakly and strongly…

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

Nonlinear interaction enables topological phenomena impossible in linear systems. A paradigm is nonlinear Thouless pump, where the transport of solitons can be topologically quantized even when band occupation is nonuniform. Such nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-01 Xuzhen Cao , Xiaolin Li , Liang Bai , Zhaoxin Liang , Li-Chen Zhao , Ying Hu

The sharply quantized transport observed in the integer quantum Hall effect can be explained via a simple one-dimensional model with a time-periodic, adiabatically varying potential in which electronic charge is pumped from one side of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-05 Marius Jürgensen , Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman

One-dimensional topological pumping of matter waves in two overlaid optical lattices moving with respect to each other is considered in the presence of attractive nonlinearity. It is shown that there exists a threshold nonlinearity level…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-04-27 Qidong Fu , Peng Wang , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Fangwei Ye

We investigate the Rice-Mele model with on-cell Kerr-type nonlinearities, where the interaction depends on the total particle number within each unit cell rather than on individual sites. This interaction enables a nontrivial interplay…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Zhe Wang , Xi-Wang Luo , Bo-Ye Sun , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Nonlinearity enables the emergence of localized waves such as solitons that maintain their shapes during propagation. Solitons are broadly classified into bright and dark solitons. While a bright soliton exhibits a density peak, a dark…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-12 Yu-Liang Tao , Huaxin He , Hao Lyu , Yongping Zhang , Yong Xu

Thouless pumping represents a powerful concept to probe quantized topological invariants in quantum systems. We explore this mechanism in a generalized Rice-Mele Fermi-Hubbard model characterized by the presence of competing onsite and…

Thouless pumps are time-periodic one-dimensional systems that capture the physics of the two-dimensional quantum Hall effect via the quantized pumping of particles under adiabatic modulation. Recent work in photonics has shown that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-21 Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

We consider theoretically the nonlinear quantized Thouless pumping of a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in a two-dimensional dynamical optical lattices. We encountered three different scenarios of the pumping: quasi-linear one occurring for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-26 Qidong Fu , Peng Wang , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Fangwei Ye

We study how nonlinear strength affects topological pumping of edge solitons by using nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii equation. For weak nonlinear strength, the introduction of nonlinearity breaks the symmetry of the energy spectrum, which makes…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-03 Xinrui You , Liaoyuan Xiao , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

Thouless pumping is an emblematic manifestation of topology in physics, referring to the ability to induce a quantized transport of charge across a system by simply varying one of its parameters periodically in time. The original concept of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 S. Ravets , N. Pernet , N. Mostaan , N. Goldman , J. Bloch
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