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In this paper, we present a novel experimental approach for simulating and detecting topological invariants using ultracold fermions confined in two-dimensional hexagonal optical lattices. We propose achieving two-fold degenerate four-band…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-12 Jing-Xin Liu , Jian-Te Wang , Hai-Tao Ding

Topological materials are characterized by integer invariants that underpin their robust quantized electronic features, as famously exemplified by the Chern number in the integer quantum Hall effect. Yet, in most candidate systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Yuval Abulafia , Eric Akkermans

The detection of topological phases of matter becomes a central issue in recent years. Conventionally, the realization of a specific topological phase in condensed matter physics relies on probing the underlying surface band dispersion or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Tao Xin , Yishan Li , Yu-ang Fan , Xuanran Zhu , Yingjie Zhang , Xinfang Nie , Jun Li , Qihang Liu , Dawei Lu

Local topological markers have proven to be a valuable tool for investigating systems with topologically non-trivial bands. Due to their local nature, such markers can treat translationally invariant systems and spatially inhomogeneous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-28 Joseph Sykes , Ryan Barnett

A hallmark feature of topological physics is the presence of one-way propagating chiral modes at the system boundary. The chirality of edge modes is a consequence of the topological character of the bulk. For example, in a non-interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sunil Mittal , Sriram Ganeshan , Jingyun Fan , Abolhassan Vaezi , Mohammad Hafezi

The realization of artificial gauge fields in ultracold atomic gases has opened up a path towards experimental studies of topological insulators and, as an ultimate goal, topological quantum matter in many-body systems. As an alternative to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 Leo Stenzel , Andrew L. C. Hayward , Claudius Hubig , Ulrich Schollwöck , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

The study of topological band insulators has revealed fascinating phases characterized by band topology indices and anomalous boundary modes protected by global symmetries. In strongly correlated systems, where the traditional notion of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-12 Chao Xu , Yixin Ma , Shenghan Jiang

We detect the topological properties of Chern insulators with strong Coulomb interactions by use of cluster perturbation theory and variational cluster approach. The common scheme in previous studies only involves the calculation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-30 Zhao-Long Gu , Kai Li , Jian-Xin Li

Topological phases and topological phase transitions (TPT) are among the most fantastic phenomena in Nature. Here we show that injecting a current may lead to new topological phases, especially new gapless topological metallic phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

Topological phases have greatly improved our understanding of modern conception of phases of matter that go beyond the paradigm of symmetry breaking and are not described by local order parameters. Instead, characterization of topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Zhihuang Luo , Wenzhao Zhang , Xinfang Nie , Dawei Lu

Topological insulators are exotic material that possess conducting surface states protected by the topology of the system. They can be classified in terms of their properties under discrete symmetries and are characterized by topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-29 M. Mochol-Grzelak , A. Dauphin , A. Celi , M. Lewenstein

Quantum metrology is deeply connected to quantum geometry, through the fundamental notion of quantum Fisher information. Inspired by advances in topological matter, it was recently suggested that the Berry curvature and Chern numbers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Min Yu , Xiangbei Li , Yaoming Chu , Bruno Mera , F. Nur Ünal , Pengcheng Yang , Yu Liu , Nathan Goldman , Jianming Cai

We introduce a simple method to realize and detect photonic topological Chern insulators with one-dimensional circiut quantum electrodynamics arrays. By periodically modulating the couplings of the array, we show that this one-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Feng Mei , Jia-Bin You , Wei Nie , R. Fazio , Shi-Liang Zhu , L. C. Kwek

Inhomogeneous media commonly support a discrete number of wave modes that are trapped along interfaces defined by spatially varying parameters. When they are robust against continuous deformations of parameters, such waves are said to be of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-05 Antoine Venaille , Yohei Onuki , Nicolas Perez , Armand Leclerc

Chern number is a crucial invariant for characterizing topological feature of two-dimensional quantum systems. Real-space Chern number allows us to extract topological properties of systems without involving translational symmetry, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ling Lin , Yongguan Ke , Li Zhang , Chaohong Lee

Topological invariants in the band structure, such as Chern numbers, are crucial for the classification of topological matters and dictate the occurrence of exotic properties, yet their direct spectroscopic determination has been largely…

We study the properties of the quantum states in the one-dimensional system with a shifted periodic potential in both the discrete model and the continuous model. With open boundary conditions, the edge states appear in the energy gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yi Zheng , Shi-Jie Yang

The Chern number is a crucial topological invariant for distinguishing the phases of Chern insulators. Here we find that for Chern insulators with inversion symmetry, the Chern number alone is insufficient to fully characterize their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

Functional brain networks exhibit topological structures that reflect neural organization; however, statistical comparison of these networks is challenging for several reasons. This paper introduces a topologically invariant permutation…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-30 Sixtus Dakurah

The quantized Hall conductivity of integer and fractional quantum Hall (IQH and FQH) states is directly related to a topological invariant, the many-body Chern number. The conventional calculation of this invariant in interacting systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-10 Hossein Dehghani , Ze-Pei Cian , Mohammad Hafezi , Maissam Barkeshli