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The interplay between topology and soliton is a central topic in nonlinear topological physics. So far, most studies have been confined to conservative settings. Here, we explore Thouless pumping of dissipative temporal solitons in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-06 Xuzhen Cao , Chunyu Jia , Ying Hu , Zhaoxin Liang

Quantized dynamics is essential for natural processes and technological applications alike. The work of Thouless on quantized particle transport in slowly varying potentials (Thouless pumping) has played a key role in understanding that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Zlata Fedorova , Haixin Qiu , Stefan Linden , Johann Kroha

Thouless pumps are topologically nontrivial states of matter with quantized charge transport, which can be realized in atomic gases loaded into an optical lattice. This topological state is analogous to the quantum Hall state. However,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-04 Pasquale Marra , Muneto Nitta

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…

A gas of electrons in a one-dimensional periodic potential can be transported even in the absence of a voltage bias if the potential is modulated slowly and periodically in time. Remarkably, the transferred charge per cycle is only…

Thouless pumping is a paradigmatic example of topologically protected, directed transport in linear systems. Recent extensions to nonlinear pumps often overlook the need to reassess the conventional framework of linear topology. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Markus Bestler , Oded Zilberberg

Thouless charge pumps are quantum mechanical devices whose operation relies on topology. They provide the means for transporting quantum matter in space lattices with a single quantum precision. Contrasting space crystals that spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tapio Simula , Niels Kjærgaard , Tilman Pfau

Recent foundational studies have established the bulk-edge correspondence for nonlinear eigenvalue problems using auxiliary eigenvalues $\hat{H}\Psi=\omega S(\omega)\Psi$, spanning both linear [T. Isobe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 126601…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Chenxi Bai , Zhaoxin Liang

Quantized Thouless pumps in periodic systems, set by Chern numbers or Wannier-center winding, is by now fairly well established, whereas its quasi-periodic extensions still require further clarification. Here, we develop a general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Zixun Xu , Yuan Yao

We elucidate the mechanism for instability of topological Thouless pumping in strongly interacting systems from a viewpoint of symmetry-protected topological phases. If the protecting symmetries of the underlying topological phases change…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-27 Masaya Nakagawa , Tsuneya Yoshida , Robert Peters , Norio Kawakami

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 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

Geometric properties of waves and wave functions can explain the appearance of integer-valued observables throughout physics. For example, these 'topological' invariants describe the plateaux observed in the quantised Hall effect and the…

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 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

Particle-particle interaction provides a new degree of freedom to induce novel topological phenomena. Here, we propose to use spatiotemporal modulation of interaction to realize topological pumping without single-particle counterpart.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Boning Huang , Yongguan Ke , Wenjie Liu , Chaohong Lee

We study Thouless pumping and arresting of gap solitons in a two-component Bose gas loaded into an optical superlattice. We show that, depending on the atomic interactions and chemical potentials, the two solitons can be simultaneously…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-11 Hao Lyu , Yongping Zhang , Thomas Busch

Topological phases of matter are known to be unstable against strong onsite disorder in one dimension. In this work, however, we propose that in the case of a topological ladder, an onsite quasiperiodic disorder under proper conditions,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-02 Sanchayan Banerjee , Rajashri Parida , Tapan Mishra

In many contexts, the interaction between particles gives rise to emergent and perhaps unanticipated physical phenomena. An example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, where interaction between electrons gives rise to fractionally…

Robust quantization of particle transport, as in a Thouless pump, is a hallmark of topological quantum systems with externally controlled system parameters. Here we instead propose and analyze a Thouless pump, for fermions in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Julius Bohm , James Anglin , Michael Fleischhauer