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The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model describes a tight-binding one-dimensional (1D) lattice with alternating nearest-neighbor amplitudes. Despite its mathematically simple and physically intuitive structure, the SSH model is capable of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Raditya Weda Bomantara

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 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

We study the topological properties of hardcore bosons on a two-leg ladder consisting of two Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains that are coupled via hopping and interaction. We chart out the phase diagram for the system and show that based…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-16 Ashirbad Padhan , Suman Mondal , Smitha Vishveshwara , Tapan Mishra

In the field of symmetry-protected topological phases, a common wisdom is that the symmetries fix the topological classifications, but they alone cannot determine whether a system is topologically trivial or not. Here, we show that this is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Gang Jiang , Z. Y. Chen , S. J. Yue , W. B. Rui , Xiao-Ming Zhu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Y. X. Zhao

Symmetry-protected topological phases of matter, characterized by non-trivial band topology, are spectrally gapped and show non-trivial boundary phenomena. Here, we show that scattering states when interjected by an array of periodically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Rahul Singh , Ritajit Kundu , Arijit Kundu , Adhip Agarwala

The realization of topological edge states (TESs) in photonic systems has provided unprecedented opportunities for manipulating light in novel manners. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model has recently gained significant attention and has…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-30 Yongkang Gong , Liang Guo , Stephan Wong , Anthony J. Bennett , Sang Soon Oh

We construct a quasi-two-dimensional Su Schrieffer-Heeger model (SSH) like model and uncover a rich set of topological phases with nontrivial spin textures in the presence of complex hopping and spin orbit coupling. Despite its simple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Hemant K Sharma , Saptarshi Mandal , Kush Saha

We study two coupled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains system, which is shown to contain rich quantum phases associated with topological invariants protected by symmetries. In the weak coupling region, the system supports two non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Ci. Li , Sen. Lin , Gang. Zhang , Zhi. Song

Topological insulators have inspired the study with various quantum simulators. Exploiting the tunability of the qubit frequency and qubit-qubit coupling, we show that a superconducting qubit chain can simulate various topological band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Xiu Gu , Shu Chen , Yu-xi Liu

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain is a prototype example of a symmetry-protected topological insulator. Coupling it non-perturbatively to local thermal environments, either through the intercell or the intracell fermion tunneling elements,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Brett Min , Kartiek Agarwal , Dvira Segal

The topological properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in the presence of nearest-neighbor interaction are investigated by means of a topological marker, generalized from a noninteracting one by utilizing the single-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-01 Pedro B. Melo , Sebastião A. S. Júnior , Wei Chen , Rubem Mondaini , Thereza Paiva

We demonstrate a platform for synthetic dimensions based on coupled Rydberg levels in ultracold atoms, and we implement the single-particle Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) Hamiltonian. Rydberg levels are interpreted as synthetic lattice sites,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 S. K. Kanungo , J. D. Whalen , Y. Lu , M. Yuan , S. Dasgupta , F. B. Dunning , K. R. A. Hazzard , T. C. Killian

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

This paper experimentally investigates topologically protected edge modes in a water wave channel through a direct geometric mapping to the one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. By designing a periodic channel with alternating…

We propose a topological plasmonic crystal structure composed of an array of parallel nanowires with unequal spacing. In the paraxial approximation, the Helmholtz equation that describes the propagation of light along the nanowires maps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Chenxu Liu , M. V. Gurudev Dutt , David Pekker

We study the Su-Schrieffer-Hegger model, perhaps the simplest realization of a topological insulator, in the presence of an embedded impurity superlattice. We consider the impact of the said impurity by changing the hopping amplitudes…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-09 Julio César Pérez-Pedraza , José Eduardo Barrios-Vargas , Alfredo Raya

It is well known that the topology of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger(SSH) model, which belongs to AIII symmetry class, is protected by chiral symmetry. In this article, instead of chiral symmetry, we constrain the bulk Hamiltonian by a magnetic point…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Chi-Ho Cheung , Jinyu Zou

The on-site potentials may break the symmetry of a system, resulting in the loss of its original topology protected by the symmetry. In this work, we study the counteracting effect of non-Hermitian terms on real potentials, resulting in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-09 E. S. Ma , K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

The interplay between the spin-orbit and Zeeman interactions acting on a spinful Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model is studied based on an InAs nanowire subjected to a periodic gate potential along the axial direction. It is shown that a nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Zhi-Hai Liu , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , J. Q. You , H. Q. Xu