Controlling mass and energy diffusion with metamaterials

F Yang, Z Zhang, L Xu, Z Liu, P Jin, P Zhuang… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Diffusion driven by temperature or concentration gradients is a fundamental mechanism of
energy and mass transport that inherently differs from wave propagation in both physical …

Nonequilibrium boundary-driven quantum systems: Models, methods, and properties

GT Landi, D Poletti, G Schaller - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum
systems driven dissipatively by coupling to different baths at their edges. This was possible …

Lyapunov exponent, mobility edges, and critical region in the generalized Aubry-André model with an unbounded quasiperiodic potential

YC Zhang, YY Zhang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In this work, we investigate the Anderson localization problems of the generalized Aubry-
André model (Ganeshan-Pixley-Das Sarma's model) with an unbounded quasiperiodic …

Topological phase transitions and mobility edges in non-Hermitian quasicrystals

Q Lin, T Li, L Xiao, K Wang, W Yi, P Xue - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the properties of topological models, leading to exotic
features such as the non-Hermitian skin effects and non-Bloch bulk-boundary …

Observation of interaction-induced mobility edge in an atomic Aubry-André wire

Y Wang, JH Zhang, Y Li, J Wu, W Liu, F Mei, Y Hu… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A mobility edge, a critical energy separating localized and extended excitations, is a key
concept for understanding quantum localization. The Aubry-André (AA) model, a paradigm …

Quantized nonlinear Thouless pumping

M Jürgensen, S Mukherjee, MC Rechtsman - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The topological protection of wave transport, originally observed in the context of the
quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gases, has been shown to apply broadly to …

Interplay of non-Hermitian skin effects and Anderson localization in nonreciprocal quasiperiodic lattices

H Jiang, LJ Lang, C Yang, SL Zhu, S Chen - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Non-Hermiticity from nonreciprocal hoppings has been shown recently to demonstrate the
non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under open boundary conditions (OBCs). Here we study …

Observation of many-body localization of interacting fermions in a quasirandom optical lattice

M Schreiber, SS Hodgman, P Bordia, HP Lüschen… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Many-body localization (MBL), the disorder-induced localization of interacting particles,
signals a breakdown of conventional thermodynamics because MBL systems do not …

Topological states and adiabatic pumping in quasicrystals

YE Kraus, Y Lahini, Z Ringel, M Verbin, O Zilberberg - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
The unrelated discoveries of quasicrystals and topological insulators have in turn
challenged prevailing paradigms in condensed-matter physics. We find a surprising …

Single-particle mobility edge in a one-dimensional quasiperiodic optical lattice

HP Lüschen, S Scherg, T Kohlert, M Schreiber… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
A single-particle mobility edge (SPME) marks a critical energy separating extended from
localized states in a quantum system. In one-dimensional systems with uncorrelated …