Topological Solitons in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chain with periodic hopping modulation, domain walls and disorder

Abstract

A chiral symmetric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain features topological end states in one of its dimerized configurations. Those mid-gap zero energy states show interesting modifications upon a periodic tuning of the hopping modulations. Besides, more and more in-gap end modes appear at nonzero energies for further partitioning of the Brillouin zone (BZ) due to increased hopping periodicity. The new topological phases are identified with a detailed analysis of the topological invariants namely, winding number and Zak phases. The spectra and topology of these systems with periodically modulated hopping are studied also in the presence of a single static domain wall, separating two topologically inequivalent dimerized structures. The domain wall causes additional in-gap modes in the spectrum as well as zero energy domain wall solitonic states for specific hopping periodicities. We also study the effect of disorder, particularly the chirality breaking onsite ones, on the edge and domain wall states. Other than the SSH type we also consider random, Rice-Mele or AI type disorder to do a comparative analysis of the evolution of chirality and zero energy states as the strength of disorder and hopping periodicity is varied. Our findings can add important feedback in utilizing topological phases in various fields including quantum computations while the results can be easily verified in a cold atom set up within optical lattices.

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