Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Robust quantum valley Hall effect for vortices in an interacting bosonic quantum fluid

  • O. Bleu,
  • G. Malpuech,
  • D. D. Solnyshkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06520-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Topologically protected pseudospin transport is difficult to implement for bosonic systems due to the lack of symmetry-protected pseudospins. Here, Bleu et al. propose robust valley pseudospin transport, truly topologically protected by the winding of a quantum vortex propagating between two staggered honeycomb lattices.