We show that a topological pump in a one-dimensional (1D) insulator can induce a strictly quantized transport in an auxiliary chain of non-interacting fermions weakly coupled to the first. The transported charge is determined by an integer topological invariant of the ficticious Hamiltonian of the insulator, given by the covariance matrix of single-particle correlations. If the original system consists of non-interacting fermions, this number is identical to the TKNN (Thouless, Kohmoto, Nightinghale, den Nijs) invariant of the original system and thus the coupling induces a transfer of topology to the auxiliary chain. When extended to particles with interactions, for which the TKNN number does not exist, the transported charge in the auxiliary chain defines a topological invariant for the interacting system. In certain cases this invariant agrees with the many-body generalization of the TKNN number introduced by Niu, Thouless, and Wu (NTW). We illustrate the topology transfer to the auxiliary system for the Rice-Mele model of non-interacting fermions at half filling and the extended superlattice Bose-Hubbard model at quarter filling. In the latter case the induced charge pump is fractional.
Quantized transport of solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates driven by spin-orbit coupling
Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences(俄罗斯科学院光谱研究所);Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional Universidade de Lisboa(里斯本大学理论物理与计算中心);Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa(里斯本大学理学院物理系);School of Physics and Engineering, ITMO University(ITMO大学物理工程学院)
Quantized nonlinear transport and its breakdown in Fermi gases with Berry curvature
Key Laboratory of Quantum Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, School of Physics, Southeast University(东南大学物理学院教育部量子材料与器件重点实验室);Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University(清华大学高等研究院)
Quantized Transport of Gap Solitons in the Harper-Hofstadter Model
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham(伯明翰大学物理与天文学院);Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London(帝国理工学院布莱克特实验室);Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) and Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)(极轻基础设施-核物理(ELI-NP)和霍里亚·胡鲁贝伊核物理与核工程研发国家研究所(IFIN-HH));Pitaevskii BEC Center, INO-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento(皮塔耶夫斯基玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中心、意大利国家研究委员会光学研究所及特伦托大学物理系)