Quantized Thouless pumps protected by interactions in dimerized Rydberg tweezer arrays

We study Thouless pumps, i.e., adiabatic topological transport, in an interacting spin chain described by the dimerized Hamiltonian. In the noninteracting case, quantized Thouless pumps can only occur when a topological singularity is encircled adiabatically. In contrast, here we show that, in the p...

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Autores: Julià Farré, Sergi, Argüello Luengo, Javier|||0000-0001-5627-8907, Henriet, Loïc, Dauphin, Alexandre
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/418043
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/418043
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.110.023328
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Pumping machinery
Topology
Maquinària de bombament
Topologia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Física de fluids
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Sumario:We study Thouless pumps, i.e., adiabatic topological transport, in an interacting spin chain described by the dimerized Hamiltonian. In the noninteracting case, quantized Thouless pumps can only occur when a topological singularity is encircled adiabatically. In contrast, here we show that, in the presence of interactions, such topological transport can even persist for exotic paths in which the system gets arbitrarily close to the noninteracting singularity. We illustrate the robustness of these exotic Thouless pumps through the behavior of the noninteracting singularity, which for sufficiently strong interactions splits into two singularities separated by a spontaneous antiferromagnetic insulator. We perform a numerical benchmark of these phenomena by means of tensor network simulations of ground-state physics and real-time adiabatic dynamics. Finally, we propose an experimental protocol with Floquet-driven Rydberg tweezer arrays.