25–26 Jan 2024
UB Physics Faculty
Europe/Madrid timezone

Bosonic orbital Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in a lattice of rings

25 Jan 2024, 10:00
20m

Speaker

Verònica Ahufinger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Description

We study the topological properties of interacting and non-interacting bosons loaded in the orbital angular momentum states l = 1 in a lattice of rings with alternating distances [Phys. Rev. A 108, 023317 (2023)]. At the single-particle level, the two circulation states within each site lead to two decoupled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattices with correlated topological phases. We characterize the topological configuration of these lattices in terms of the alternating distances, as well as their single-particle spectrum and topologically protected edge states. Secondly, we add on-site interactions for the two-boson case, which lead to the appearance of multiple bound states and edge bound states. We investigate the doublon bands in terms of a strong-link model and we analyze the resulting subspaces using perturbation theory in the limit of strong interactions. All analytical results are benchmarked against exact diagonalization simulations.

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