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The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a prototype model in the field of topological condensed matter physics, and the existence and characteristics of its topological edge states are crucial for revealing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Weibo Xu

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a paradigmatic one-dimensional (1-D) system that exhibits a non-trivial band topology. In this paper, we foreground a new scheme involving a 1-D chain of $2N+1$ Bosonic modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a finite one-dimensional dimer lattice with first-neighbour hoppings populated by non-interacting electrons. In this work we study a generalization of the SSH model including longer-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Beatriz Pérez-González , Miguel Bello , Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

We investigate the edge states and the topological phase transitions in a class of tight binding lattices in one dimension where a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model exists in disguise. The unit cells of such lattices may have an arbitrarily…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-07 Subhajyoti Bid , Arunava Chakrabarti

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is likely the simplest one-dimensional concept to study non-trivial topological phases and topological excitations. Originally developed to explain the electric conductivity of polyacetylene, it has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 M. Esmann , F. R. Lamberti , A. Lemaitre , N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain is the reference model of a one-dimensional topological insulator. Its topological nature can be explained by the quantization of the Zak phase, due to reflection symmetry of the unit cell, or of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Malte Röntgen , Xuelong Chen , Wenlong Gao , Maxim Pyzh , Peter Schmelcher , Vincent Pagneux , Vassos Achilleos , Antonin Coutant

In this work, we theoretically study a modified Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in which each unit cell consists of three sites. Unlike existing extensions of the SSH model which are made by enlarging the periodicity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Mohammad Ghuneim , Raditya Weda Bomantara

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a fundamental lattice model used to study topological physics. Here, we propose a new versatile one-dimensional (1D) lattice model that extends beyond the SSH model. Our 1D model breaks chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Qing Wang , Ning Hao

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model perhaps is the easiest and the most basic model for topological excitations. Many variations and extensions of the SSH model have been proposed and explored to better understand both fundamental and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-01 Dizhou Xie , Wei Gou , Teng Xiao , Bryce Gadway , Bo Yan

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains are paradigmatic examples of 1D topological insulators hosting zero-energy edge modes when the bulk of the system has a non-zero topological winding invariant. Recently, high-harmonic spectroscopy has been…

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

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a one-dimensional $Z_{2}$ topological insulator, which has two topological distinct phases corresponding to two different dimerizations. When spin-orbit coupling is introduced into the SSH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is fundamental in topological insulators and relevant to understanding higher-order topological phases. This study explores the relationship between the $n$-dimensional SSH model and its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-29 Feng Liu

We propose an implementation of a generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model based on optomechanical arrays. The topological properties of the generalized SSH model depend on the effective optomechanical interactions enhanced by strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Xun-Wei Xu , Yan-Jun Zhao , Hui Wang , Ai-Xi Chen , Yu-xi Liu

Geared as an invitation for undergraduates, beginning graduate students, we present a pedagogical introduction to one-dimensional topological phases -- in particular the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. In the process, we delve upon ideas of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anantha Hegde , Adarsh Kumar , Adhip Agarwala , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model on two-dimensional square lattice exhibits a topological phase transition, which is related to the Zak phase determined by bulk band topology. The strong modulation of electron hopping causes nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Daichi Obana , Feng Liu , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We present a continuous non-local model that faithfully replicates the rich topological and spectral features of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. Remarkably, our model shares the SSH models bulk energy spectrum, eigenstates, and Zak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Fotios K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

In this paper, we review the basic concepts of topologically protected edge modes using the Su Schrieffer Heeger (SSH) model, originally introduced to describe electrical conductivity in doped polyacetylene polymer chains. We then propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 L. Q. English , A. Halchenko , F. Palmero

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is one of the simplest models to show topological end/edge states and the existence of Majorana fermions. Here we consider a SSH like model both in one and two dimensions where a nearest neighbor hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Satyaki Kar

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes the dynamics of spinless fermions in a one-dimensional lattice, with sublattices $A$ and $B$, and governed by staggered hopping potentials $v$ and $w$ representing the intracell and intercell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Dyn Paulo C. Dasallas , Eduardo C. Cuansing
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