Dynamical signatures of symmetry protected topology following symmetry breaking

We investigate topological signatures in the short-time nonequilibrium dynamics of symmetry protected topological (SPT) systems starting from initial states which break a protecting symmetry. Naively one might expect that topology loses meaning when a protecting symmetry is broken. Defying this intu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jacob A. Marks, Michael Schüler, Thomas P. Devereaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2021-05-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023137