Thouless pumping and topology

R Citro, M Aidelsburger - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Thouless pumping provides one of the simplest manifestations of topology in quantum
systems and has attracted a lot of recent interest, both theoretically and experimentally …

Thermal control of the topological edge flow in nonlinear photonic lattices

PS Jung, GG Pyrialakos, FO Wu, M Parto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The chaotic evolution resulting from the interplay between topology and nonlinearity in
photonic systems generally forbids the sustainability of optical currents. Here, we …

Engineering the unidirectional topological excitation transmission and topological diode in the Rice-Mele model

L Qi, N Han, S Hu, AL He - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We show how to implement the unidirectional topological excitation transmission in the Rice-
Mele model. We find that the unidirectional excitation transmissions can be implemented via …

Deflecting and routing nematicons via orientation programmable liquid crystal array

SY Zhang, YF Wang, D Shen, DB Luo, ZG Zheng - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
By designing a liquid crystal cell with comb electrode structure, the alignment modulation of
nematic liquid crystal in the cell can be realized after the electric field is applied. In different …

Optical isolation via direction-dependent soliton routing in birefringent soft matter

E Calisto, NF Smyth, G Assanto - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We introduce optical isolation based on reorientational solitary waves in nonuniformly
oriented uniaxial soft matter, namely nematic liquid crystals. A longitudinally nonsymmetric …

Non-Abelian Thouless pumping in a Rice-Mele ladder

C Danieli, V Brosco, L Pilozzi, R Citro - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.20136, 2024 - arxiv.org
Non-Abelian Thouless pumping intertwines adiabatic quantum control and topological
quantum transport and it holds potential for quantum metrology and computing. In this work …