scholarly journals Observation of a symmetry-protected topological phase of interacting bosons with Rydberg atoms

Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 365 (6455) ◽  
pp. 775-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain de Léséleuc ◽  
Vincent Lienhard ◽  
Pascal Scholl ◽  
Daniel Barredo ◽  
Sebastian Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Tweezers ◽  
Ground States ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Topological Phases ◽  
Topological Phase ◽  
Edge States ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Experimental Realization ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Symmetry Protected

The concept of topological phases is a powerful framework for characterizing ground states of quantum many-body systems that goes beyond the paradigm of symmetry breaking. Topological phases can appear in condensed-matter systems naturally, whereas the implementation and study of such quantum many-body ground states in artificial matter require careful engineering. Here, we report the experimental realization of a symmetry-protected topological phase of interacting bosons in a one-dimensional lattice and demonstrate a robust ground state degeneracy attributed to protected zero-energy edge states. The experimental setup is based on atoms trapped in an array of optical tweezers and excited into Rydberg levels, which gives rise to hard-core bosons with an effective hopping generated by dipolar exchange interaction.

scholarly journals Non-Hermitian route to higher-order topology in an acoustic crystal

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
He Gao ◽  
Haoran Xue ◽  
Zhongming Gu ◽  
Tuo Liu ◽  
Jie Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Order ◽  
Order Topology ◽  
Topological Phases ◽  
Edge States ◽  
Experimental Realization ◽  
Artificial Materials ◽  
Intrinsic Loss ◽  
Topological Phases Of Matter ◽  
Hierarchical Features ◽  
Nontrivial Topology

AbstractTopological phases of matter are classified based on their Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose real-valued dispersions together with orthogonal eigenstates form nontrivial topology. In the recently discovered higher-order topological insulators (TIs), the bulk topology can even exhibit hierarchical features, leading to topological corner states, as demonstrated in many photonic and acoustic artificial materials. Naturally, the intrinsic loss in these artificial materials has been omitted in the topology definition, due to its non-Hermitian nature; in practice, the presence of loss is generally considered harmful to the topological corner states. Here, we report the experimental realization of a higher-order TI in an acoustic crystal, whose nontrivial topology is induced by deliberately introduced losses. With local acoustic measurements, we identify a topological bulk bandgap that is populated with gapped edge states and in-gap corner states, as the hallmark signatures of hierarchical higher-order topology. Our work establishes the non-Hermitian route to higher-order topology, and paves the way to exploring various exotic non-Hermiticity-induced topological phases.

scholarly journals Entanglement and Disordered-Enhanced Topological Phase in the Kitaev Chain

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liron Levy ◽  
Moshe Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
Information Theory ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Quantum Information Theory ◽  
Topological Phase ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Zero Modes ◽  
Many Body Systems

In recent years, tools from quantum information theory have become indispensable in characterizing many-body systems. In this work, we employ measures of entanglement to study the interplay between disorder and the topological phase in 1D systems of the Kitaev type, which can host Majorana end modes at their edges. We find that the entanglement entropy may actually increase as a result of disorder, and identify the origin of this behavior in the appearance of an infinite-disorder critical point. We also employ the entanglement spectrum to accurately determine the phase diagram of the system, and find that disorder may enhance the topological phase, and lead to the appearance of Majorana zero modes in systems whose clean version is trivial.

Introduction to integrable many-body systems I

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Šamaj
Keyword(s):  
Hard Core ◽  
Coulomb Gas ◽  
Quantum Gases ◽  
Many Body ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Pairwise Interactions ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
Physical Level ◽  
Many Body Systems

Introduction to integrable many-body systems IThis is the first volume of a three-volume introductory course about integrable (exactly solvable) systems of interacting bodies. The aim of the course is to derive and analyze, on an elementary mathematical and physical level, the Bethe ansatz solutions, ground-state properties and the thermodynamics of integrable many-body systems in many domains of physics: Nonrelativistic one-dimensional continuum Fermi and Bose gases; One-dimensional quantum models of condensed matter physics like the Heisenberg, Hubbard and Kondo models; Relativistic models of the (1+1)-dimensional Quantum Field Theory like the Luttinger model, the sine-Gordon model and its fermionic analog the Thirring model; Two-dimensional classical models, especially the symmetric Coulomb gas. In the first part of this volume, we deal with nonrelativistic one-dimensional continuum Fermi and Bose quantum gases of spinless (identical) particles with specific types of pairwise interactions like the short-range δ-function and hard-core interactions, and the long-range 1/

scholarly journals Many-body topological invariants from randomized measurements in synthetic quantum matter

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (15) ◽  
pp. eaaz3666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Elben ◽  
Jinlong Yu ◽  
Guanyu Zhu ◽  
Mohammad Hafezi ◽  
Frank Pollmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Wave ◽  
Complete Classification ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Spin Model ◽  
Topological Invariants ◽  
Topological Phases ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Topological Quantum ◽  
The Many ◽  
Symmetry Protected

Many-body topological invariants, as quantized highly nonlocal correlators of the many-body wave function, are at the heart of the theoretical description of many-body topological quantum phases, including symmetry-protected and symmetry-enriched topological phases. Here, we propose and analyze a universal toolbox of measurement protocols to reveal many-body topological invariants of phases with global symmetries, which can be implemented in state-of-the-art experiments with synthetic quantum systems, such as Rydberg atoms, trapped ions, and superconducting circuits. The protocol is based on extracting the many-body topological invariants from statistical correlations of randomized measurements, implemented with local random unitary operations followed by site-resolved projective measurements. We illustrate the technique and its application in the context of the complete classification of bosonic symmetry-protected topological phases in one dimension, considering in particular the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger spin model, as realized with Rydberg tweezer arrays.

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