Higher-order topological Peierls insulator in a two-dimensional
atom-cavity system
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03409v1
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 10:25:14 GMT
- Title: Higher-order topological Peierls insulator in a two-dimensional
atom-cavity system
- Authors: Joana Fraxanet, Alexandre Dauphin, Maciej Lewenstein, Luca Barbiero
and Daniel Gonz\'alez-Cuadra
- Abstract summary: We show how photon-mediated interactions give rise to a plaquette-ordered bond pattern in the atomic ground state.
The pattern opens a non-trivial topological gap in 2D, resulting in a higher-order topological phase hosting corner states.
Our work shows how atomic quantum simulators can be harnessed to investigate novel strongly-correlated topological phenomena.
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- Abstract: In this work, we investigate a two-dimensional system of ultracold bosonic
atoms inside an optical cavity, and show how photon-mediated interactions give
rise to a plaquette-ordered bond pattern in the atomic ground state. The latter
corresponds to a 2D Peierls transition, generalizing the spontaneous bond
dimmerization driven by phonon-electron interactions in the 1D
Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. Here the bosonic nature of the atoms plays a
crucial role to generate the phase, as similar generalizations with fermionic
matter do not lead to a plaquette structure. Similar to the SSH model, we show
how this pattern opens a non-trivial topological gap in 2D, resulting in a
higher-order topological phase hosting corner states, that we characterize by
means of a many-body topological invariant and through its entanglement
structure. Finally, we demonstrate how this higher-order topological Peierls
insulator can be readily prepared in atomic experiments through adiabatic
protocols. Our work thus shows how atomic quantum simulators can be harnessed
to investigate novel strongly-correlated topological phenomena beyond those
observed in natural materials.
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