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 …

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 …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Gap solitons in a one-dimensional driven-dissipative topological lattice

N Pernet, P St-Jean, DD Solnyshkov, G Malpuech… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinear topological photonics is an emerging field that aims to extend the fascinating
properties of topological states to a regime where interactions between the system …

Non-Abelian Thouless pumping in photonic waveguides

YK Sun, XL Zhang, F Yu, ZN Tian, QD Chen, HB Sun - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Thouless pumping enables topological transport and the direct measurement of topological
invariants. So far, realizations of Thouless pumping rely on the adiabatic evolution of a …

[HTML][HTML] Quantization and its breakdown in a Hubbard–Thouless pump

AS Walter, Z Zhu, M Gächter, J Minguzzi, S Roschinski… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Geometric properties of wave functions can explain the appearance of topological invariants
in many condensed-matter and quantum systems. For example, topological invariants …

Quantized fractional Thouless pumping of solitons

M Jürgensen, S Mukherjee, C Jörg, MC Rechtsman - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
In many contexts, interaction between particles gives rise to emergent phenomena. An
example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, where the interaction between electrons leads …

[HTML][HTML] Quantized topological pumping of solitons in nonlinear photonics and ultracold atomic mixtures

N Mostaan, F Grusdt, N Goldman - nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Exploring the interplay between topological band structures and tunable nonlinearities has
become possible with the development of synthetic lattice systems. In this emerging field of …

Nonlinear Thouless pumping: solitons and transport breakdown

Q Fu, P Wang, YV Kartashov, VV Konotop, F Ye - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
One-dimensional topological pumping of matter waves in two overlaid optical lattices
moving with respect to each other is considered in the presence of attractive nonlinearity. It …

Topological pumping in a Floquet-Bloch band

J Minguzzi, Z Zhu, K Sandholzer, AS Walter… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Constructing new topological materials is of vital interest for the development of robust
quantum applications. However, engineering such materials often causes technological …