Quasiperiodicity protects quantized transport in disordered systems without gaps
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07049v1
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 17:11:48 GMT
- Title: Quasiperiodicity protects quantized transport in disordered systems without gaps
- Authors: Emmanuel Gottlob, Dan S. Borgnia, Robert-Jan Slager, Ulrich Schneider,
- Abstract summary: We uncover a new mechanism for topological protection via the observation of quantized currents.
We propose a protocol, realizable in cold atoms or photonic experiments, which leverages this stability to prepare topological many-body states with high Chern number.
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- Abstract: The robustness of topological properties, such as adiabatic quantized currents, generally depends on the existence of gaps surrounding the relevant energy levels or symmetry-forbidden transitions. We uncover a new mechanism for topological protection via the observation of quantized currents which survive the addition of bounded local disorder large enough to close the relevant instantaneous energy gaps in a driven Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper chain, a prototypical model of quasiperiodic systems. Using a local picture in configuration-space based on Landau-Zener transitions, we show that in this case the topological protection does not depend on the spectral gaps, but rather on the number of states in an occupied band and the position of the band in configuration space. Moreover, we propose a protocol, realizable in cold atoms or photonic experiments, which leverages this stability to prepare topological many-body states with high Chern number and open new experimental avenues for the study of both the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects.
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