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By means of time-dependent density matrix renormalization group calculations we study topological quantum pumping in a strongly interacting system. The system under consideration is described by the Hamiltonian of a one-dimensional extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-26 Davide Rossini , Marco Gibertini , Vittorio Giovannetti , Rosario Fazio

Non-Abelian Thouless pumping intertwines adiabatic quantum control and topological quantum transport and it holds potential for quantum metrology and computing. In this work, we introduce a ladder model featuring two doubly-degenerate bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Carlo Danieli , Valentina Brosco , Laura Pilozzi , Roberta Citro

The hallmark feature of topological insulators renders edge transport virtually impervious to scattering at defects and lattice disorder. In our work, we experimentally demonstrate a topological system, using a photonic platform, in which…

Topological charge pumping represents an important quantum phenomenon that shows the fundamental connection to the topological properties of dynamical systems. Here, we introduce a pumping process in a spin-dependent double-well optical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-29 Qianqian Chen , Jianming Cai , Shaoliang Zhang

Introduced by David Thouless in 1983, Thouless pumping exemplifies topological properties in topological systems, where the transported charge is quantized by the Chern number. Recently, returning Thouless pumping was theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Zheyu Cheng , Sijie Yue , Yang Long , Wentao Xie , Zixuan Yu , Hau Tian Teo , Y. X. Zhao , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

A topological pump enables robust transport of quantized particles when the system parameters are varied in a cyclic process. In previous studies, topological pump was achieved inhomogeneous systems guaranteed by a topological invariant of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Bi-Ye Xie , Oubo You , Shuang Zhang

Topological pumping of ultracold atomic gases has recently been demonstrated in two experiments (Nat. Phys. 12, 296; 12, 350 (2016)). Here we study the topological pumping of a single magnon in a dynamically controlled spin-dependent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-18 Feng Mei , Gang Chen , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

Topological phases are robust against weak perturbations, but break down when disorder becomes sufficiently strong. However, moderate disorder can also induce topologically nontrivial phases. Thouless pumping, as a (1+1)D counterpart of the…

Topological transport is determined by global properties of physical media where it occurs and is characterized by quantized amounts of adiabatically transported quantities. Discovered for periodic potentials it was also explored in…

Photonic systems provide a highly tunable platform for emulating quantum Hall physics. This tunability enables probing of the interplay between strong disorder and robust topological transport that remains difficult to access in solid-state…

Topological dislocations in otherwise periodic lattices represent global structural defects that, nevertheless, typically leave the lattice periodicity intact far from the dislocation. Such dislocations arise in diverse physical systems…

The transfer of conserved charges through insulating matter via smooth deformations of the Hamiltonian is known as quantum adiabatic, or Thouless, pumping. Central to this phenomenon are Hamiltonians whose insulating gap is controlled by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Pedro L. S. Lopes , Pouyan Ghaemi , Shinsei Ryu , Taylor L. Hughes

Parity-time(PT) symmetric lattices have been widely studied in controlling the flow of waves, and recently moir\'e superlattices, connecting the periodic and non-periodic potentials, are introduced for exploring unconventional physical…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-29 Xiuye Liu , Jianhua Zeng

The existence of thresholdless vortex solitons trapped at the core of disclination lattices that realize higher-order topological insulators is reported. The study demonstrates the interplay between nonlinearity and higher-order topology in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-09-27 Changming Huang , Ce Shang , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Fangwei Ye

We propose a two-dimensional (2D) version of Thouless pumping that can be realized by using ultracold atoms in optical lattices. To be specific, we consider a 2D square lattice tight-binding model with an obliquely introduced superlattice.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-03 Fuyuki Matsuda , Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

Nonlinear topological photonics is an emerging field aiming at extending the fascinating properties of topological states to the realm where interactions between the system constituents cannot be neglected. Interactions can indeed trigger…

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

In Thouless pump, the charge transport in a one-dimensional insulator over an adiabatic cycle is topologically quantized. For nonequilibrium initial states, however, interband coherence will induce a previously unknown contribution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Gudapati Naresh Raghava , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

Thouless pumping, the quantized transport of particles in a cyclic adiabatic evolution, faces a challenge: slow driving may exceed the coherent time, while fast driving may break quantization. To address this dilemma, we propose to speed up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Wenjie Liu , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

We show how to implement quantum transport, generate entangled state and achieve spatial entanglement distribution via topological Thouless pumping in one-dimensional disordered lattices. We introduce the on-site disorders to suppress the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Shi Hu , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee