Topological Braiding of Bloch Eigenmodes Protected by Non-Abelian Quaternion Invariants

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01809v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:26:19 GMT
• Title: Topological Braiding of Bloch Eigenmodes Protected by Non-Abelian Quaternion Invariants
• Authors: Xiao-Ming Wang, Jiaying Xu, Xulong Wang, Zhen Li, Guancong Ma,
• Abstract summary: We show a new strategy of topological braiding that emerges from non-Abelian topological insulators.<n>The braiding is associated with geometric phases quantized over half the Brillouin zone.<n>The results show that the principle discovered here is a new strategy towards topological braiding and can be extended for other types of classical waves and non-interacting quantum systems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Braiding has attracted significant attention in physics because of its important role in describing the fundamental exchange of particles. Infusing the braiding with topological protection will make it robust against imperfections and perturbations, but such topological braiding is believed to be possible only in interacting quantum systems, e.g., topological superconductors. Here, we propose and demonstrate a new strategy of topological braiding that emerges from non-Abelian topological insulators, a class of recently discovered multi-band topological phase. We unveil a mathematical connection between braiding and non-Abelian quaternion invariants, by which Bloch eigenmodes under parallel transport produce braid sequences protected by the non-Abelian band topology. The braiding is also associated with geometric phases quantized over half the Brillouin zone. This new type of non-Abelian topological braiding is experimentally realized in acoustic systems with periodic synthetic dimensions. The results show that the principle discovered here is a new strategy towards topological braiding and can be extended for other types of classical waves and non-interacting quantum systems.

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