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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

Non-Abelian gauge symmetries are cornerstones of modern theoretical physics, underlying fundamental interactions and the geometric structure of quantum mechanics. However, their potential to control quantum coherence, entangle- ment, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Carlo Danieli , Laura Pilozzi , Claudio Conti , Valentina Brosco

One of the hallmarks of topological systems is the robust quantization of particle transport. It is the origin of the integer-valued quantum Hall conductivity and a potential tool for quantum information technology. Recent experiments on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Julius Bohm , Hugo Gerlitz , Christina Jörg , Michael Fleischhauer

We show that two particles interacting via spin exchange exhibit topological features found in one-dimensional single particle lattice models. This is accomplished by absorbing all of the spatial degrees of freedom of the lattices into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 J. Mumford

The Thouless pump is a phenomenon in which $\mathrm{U}(1)$ charges are pumped from an edge of a fermionic system to another edge. The Thouless pump has been generalized in various dimensions and for various charges. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-09 Shuhei Ohyama , Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

Thouless pump with quantized transports is topologically robust against small perturbations and disorders, while breaks down under sufficiently strong disorders. Here we propose counter-intuitive topological pumps induced by disorders in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-29 Yi-Piao Wu , Ling-Zhi Tang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

Pure spin currents are shown to be generated by an electrically controlled quantum pump applied at the edges of a topological insulator. The electric rather than the more conventional magnetic control offers several advantages and avoids,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 R. Citro , F. Romeo , N. Andrei

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

We show that a topological pump in a one-dimensional (1D) insulator can induce a strictly quantized transport in an auxiliary chain of non-interacting fermions weakly coupled to the first. The transported charge is determined by an integer…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-21 Lukas Wawer , Rui Li , Michael Fleischhauer

We present a geometric formalism for the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of a small system coupled to external isothermal reservoirs as an application of Thouless pumping, where the electrochemical potentials of the reservoirs and parameters…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-23 Ryosuke Yoshii , Hisao Hayakawa

Quantized particle or spin transport upon cyclic parameter variations, determined by topological invariants, is a key signature of Chern insulators in the ground state. While measurable many-body observables exist that preserve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Lukas Wawer , Razmik Unanyan , Michael Fleischhauer

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…

We study Thouless pumps, i.e., adiabatic topological transport, in an interacting spin chain described by the dimerized XXZ Hamiltonian. In the noninteracting case, quantized Thouless pumps can only occur when a topological singularity is…

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 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

Motivated by the recent developments in fermionic cold atoms and in nanostructured systems, we propose the model of a peristaltic quantum pump. Differently from the Thouless paradigm, a peristaltic pump is a quantum device that generates a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-01 F. Romeo , R. Citro

Certain topological systems with time-varying Hamiltonian enable quantized and disorder-robust transport of excitations. Here, we introduce the modification of the celebrated Thouless pump when the on-site energies remain fixed, while the…

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

The adiabatic topological pumping is proposed by periodically modulating a semiconductor nanowire double-quantum-dot chain. We demonstrate that the quantized charge transport can be achieved by a nontrivial modulation of the quantum-dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. Xu

In this article, we develop a description of topological pumps as slow classical dynamical variables coupled by a quantum system. We discuss the cases of quantum Hall pumps, Thouless pumps, and the more recent Floquet pumps based frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Jacquelin Luneau , Clément Dutreix , Quentin Ficheux , Pierre Delplace , Benoît Douçot , Benjamin Huard , David Carpentier