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We analyze a tight binding model of two coupled chains with strongly interacting fermions. Depending on the parameter $w$, the many body lowest energy band consists of either single particles or bound pairs. A topological quantum pump can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Bart van Voorden , Kareljan Schoutens

Thouless pump is a one-dimensional dynamic topological effect that stems from the same topological mechanism as the renowned two-dimensional Chern insulators, with one momentum dimension replaced by a time variant evolution parameter. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Oubo You , Shanjun Liang , Biye Xie , Wenlong Gao , Weimin Ye , Jie Zhu , Shuang Zhang

Thouless pumping is a fundamental phenomenon recognized as being widespread across various areas of physics, with optics holding a particularly prominent role. Here, we study this effect for optical solitons in a medium where the refractive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-09 Fangwei Ye , Aidar H. Ryazhapov , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop

We introduce a systematic procedure based on optimal control theory to address the full counting statistics of particle transport in a stochastic system. Our approach enhances the performance of a Thouless pump in the non-adiabatic regime…

We report a theoretical study of the quantized spin pump in a traditional two-parameter quantum pump device that is based on the helical edge states of a quantum spin Hall insulator. By introducing two time-dependent magnetizations out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Mei-Juan Wang , J. Wang , Jun-Feng Liu

We study a Thouless pump realized with an elastically \textit{deformable quantum dot} whose center of mass follows a non-linear stochastic dynamics. The interplay of noise, non-linear effects, dissipation and interaction with an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 C. A. Perroni , F. Romeo , A. Nocera , V. Marigliano Ramaglia , R. Citro , V. Cataudella

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

In this work, we investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional spinless fermions loaded in a cavity with imbalanced pumping lasers. Our study is motivated by previous work on a similar setup using bosons, and we explore the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-21 Xiaotian Nie , Wei Zheng

Quantized charge pumping in one-dimensional chiral wires has been widely studied in the context of topological physics in a (1+1)-dimensional synthetic space, yet the role of orbital and spin degrees of freedom in such topological pumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Esmaeil Taghizadeh Sisakht , Uiseok Jeong , Xiao jiang , Jinseok Oh , Yizhou Liu , Binghai Yan , Noejung Park

Thouless' quantization of adiabatic particle transport permits to associate an integer topological charge with each atom of an electronically gapped material. If these charges are additive and independent of atomic positions, they provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-18 Paolo Pegolo , Federico Grasselli , Stefano Baroni

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

As the basis for generating multi-particle quantum correlations, inter-particle interaction plays a crucial role in collective quantum phenomena, quantum phase transitions, and quantum information processing. It can profoundly alter the…

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

We propose a realistic cold-atom quantum setting where nontrivial energy-band topology induces non-reciprocal pumping. This is an intriguing non-Hermitian phenomenon that illustrates how topology, when assisted with atom loss, can act as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Jiangbin Gong

Thouless pumping is a fundamental instance of quantized transport, which is topologically protected. Although its theoretical importance, the adiabaticity condition is an obstacle for further practical applications. Here, focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 S. Malikis , V. Cheianov

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

A Thouless pump can be regarded as a dynamical version of the integer quantum Hall effect. In a finite-size configuration, such topological pump displays edge modes that emerge dynamically from one bulk-band and dive into the opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Wenting Cheng , Emil Prodan , Camelia Prodan

Single electron pumping based on the topological property of Majorana fermions (MFs) is proposed. The setup consists of a quantum dot and four nano topological superconductors (TSs) connected by constriction junctions, with an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Qi-Feng Liang , Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

A Thouless pump transports an integer amount of charge when pumping adiabatically around a singularity. We study the splitting of such a critical point into two separate critical points by adding a Hubbard interaction. Furthermore, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-02 E. Bertok , F. Heidrich-Meisner , A. A. Aligia

The bulk-boundary correspondence of the second-order topological insulator (SOTI) has been well established, but a universal transport signature for open systems is still absent. For a variety of SOTIs induced by applying in-plane magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Yuxiong Long^§ , Miaomiao Wei^§ , Fuming Xu , Jian Wang