Topological bands for ultracold atoms

NR Cooper, J Dalibard, IB Spielman - Reviews of modern physics, 2019 - APS
There have been significant recent advances in realizing band structures with geometrical
and topological features in experiments on cold atomic gases. This review summarizes …

Non-Hermitian Floquet topological matter—a review

L Zhou, DJ Zhang - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
The past few years have witnessed a surge of interest in non-Hermitian Floquet topological
matter due to its exotic properties resulting from the interplay between driving fields and non …

Geometrical meaning of winding number and its characterization of topological phases in one-dimensional chiral non-Hermitian systems

C Yin, H Jiang, L Li, R Lü, S Chen - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We unveil the geometrical meaning of winding number and utilize it to characterize the
topological phases in one-dimensional chiral non-Hermitian systems. While chiral symmetry …

Detecting topological invariants in nonunitary discrete-time quantum walks

X Zhan, L **ao, Z Bian, K Wang, X Qiu, BC Sanders… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report the experimental detection of bulk topological invariants in nonunitary discrete-
time quantum walks with single photons. The nonunitarity of the quantum dynamics is …

Non-Hermitian Floquet topological phases with arbitrarily many real-quasienergy edge states

L Zhou, J Gong - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems have attracted a lot of attention due to
their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. In this paper, we propose a periodically …

Topological characterization of chiral models through their long time dynamics

M Maffei, A Dauphin, F Cardano… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study chiral models in one spatial dimension, both static and periodically driven. We
demonstrate that their topological properties may be read out through the long time limit of a …

Non-Hermitian higher-order topological states in nonreciprocal and reciprocal systems with their electric-circuit realization

M Ezawa - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
A prominent feature of some one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems is that all right
eigenstates of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian are localized in one end of the chain. The …

Probing topology by “heating”: Quantized circular dichroism in ultracold atoms

DT Tran, A Dauphin, AG Grushin, P Zoller… - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
We reveal an intriguing manifestation of topology, which appears in the depletion rate of
topological states of matter in response to an external drive. This phenomenon is presented …

Engineering the topological state transfer and topological beam splitter in an even-sized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain

L Qi, GL Wang, S Liu, S Zhang, HF Wang - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The usual Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with an even number of lattice sites possesses two
degenerate zero-energy modes. The degeneracy of the zero-energy modes leads to the …

Dissipative boundary state preparation

F Yang, P Molignini, EJ Bergholtz - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
We devise a generic and experimentally accessible recipe to prepare boundary states of
topological or nontopological quantum systems through an interplay between coherent …