Interaction-enabled topological pumping of Rydberg electrons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15126v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:38:32 GMT
• Title: Interaction-enabled topological pumping of Rydberg electrons
• Abstract summary: Topological pumping is a paradigmatic realization of quantized transport in band systems.<n>We report the experimental observation of interaction-enabled topological pumping of correlated Rydberg electrons in a synthetic lattice.
• Score: 5.904052439923267
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Topological pumping is a paradigmatic realization of quantized transport in band systems, yet its fate in strongly correlated regimes, especially with long-range interactions, remains largely unexplored. Here we report the experimental observation of interaction-enabled topological pumping of correlated Rydberg electrons in a synthetic lattice. We show that dipolar exchange interactions induce a controllable shift of the underlying topological singularity in parameter space, such that a fixed pumping trajectory can be driven through successive topological transitions by tuning the interaction strength alone. This leads to the emergence and breakdown of quantized transport. The observations are consistent with an effective Rice-Mele description with interaction-renormalized onsite potentials and are supported by characterizing the adiabaticity and robustness to control trajectory imperfections. Our results establish a platform for exploring interaction-controlled topological transport beyond perturbative regimes and open a route toward engineering correlated topological matter in synthetic quantum systems.

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