Quasiperiodicity protects quantized transport in disordered systems without gaps
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| author | Gottlob, Emmanuel Borgnia, Dan S. Slager, Robert-Jan Schneider, Ulrich |
| author_facet | Gottlob, Emmanuel Borgnia, Dan S. Slager, Robert-Jan Schneider, Ulrich |
| contents | The robustness of topological properties, such as quantized currents, generally depends on the existence of gaps surrounding the relevant energy levels or on symmetry-forbidden transitions. Here, we observe quantized currents that survive the addition of bounded local disorder beyond the closing of the relevant instantaneous energy gaps in a driven Aubry-André-Harper chain, a prototypical model of quasiperiodic systems. We explain the robustness using a local picture in \textit{configuration-space} based on Landau-Zener transitions, which rests on the Anderson localisation of the eigenstates. Moreover, we propose a protocol, directly realizable in for instance cold atoms or photonic experiments, which leverages this stability to prepare topological many-body states with high Chern numbers and opens new experimental avenues for the study of both the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects. |
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| spellingShingle | Quasiperiodicity protects quantized transport in disordered systems without gaps Gottlob, Emmanuel Borgnia, Dan S. Slager, Robert-Jan Schneider, Ulrich Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Quantum Gases Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics The robustness of topological properties, such as quantized currents, generally depends on the existence of gaps surrounding the relevant energy levels or on symmetry-forbidden transitions. Here, we observe quantized currents that survive the addition of bounded local disorder beyond the closing of the relevant instantaneous energy gaps in a driven Aubry-André-Harper chain, a prototypical model of quasiperiodic systems. We explain the robustness using a local picture in \textit{configuration-space} based on Landau-Zener transitions, which rests on the Anderson localisation of the eigenstates. Moreover, we propose a protocol, directly realizable in for instance cold atoms or photonic experiments, which leverages this stability to prepare topological many-body states with high Chern numbers and opens new experimental avenues for the study of both the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects. |
| title | Quasiperiodicity protects quantized transport in disordered systems without gaps |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Quantum Gases Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07049 |