Topological doublon edge states induced by the spatially modulated interactions

TL;DR

This paper explores how spatially modulated interactions in one-dimensional systems lead to topological doublon edge states, revealing complex spectral structures and phase transitions including topological insulators and doublon collapse.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of topological doublon edge states induced by spatially modulated interactions and analyzes their properties in various regimes.

Findings

Butterfly-like energy spectra in strongly correlated limit

Existence of topological doublon edge states and nontrivial invariants

Observation of topological insulator and metal phases in mapped 2D systems

Abstract

The topological properties of the one-dimensional interacting systems with spatially modulated interaction in two-particle regime are theoretically investigated. Taking the boson-Hubbard model and spinless fermion interacting model as examples, we show that the energy spectra for doublon (known as two-particle pair) as a function of modulated period exhibit the butterfly-like structure for strongly-correlated limit, whose topological features can be decoded by the topological invariants and topological nontrivial doublon bound edge states. When the nearest-neighbor hopping evolves stronger, the doublon bands could intersect with scattering bands, the one-dimensional interacting systems display the phases of topological insulators and two-particle bound states in the continuum. For a sufficiently larger nearest-neighbor hopping, the doublon collapse takes place, where both the bulk doublon states and topological doublon edge states become unstable and could dissociate into two weakly interacting bosons. For the mapped two-dimensional single-particle systems, numerical calculations manifest the existence of the topological insulator and topological metal phases with corner states located in only one or two corners.