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Topological doublon edge states induced by the spatially modulated interactions

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Pith's one-line read Spatially modulated interactions can drive two-boson pairs into topologically protected edge states.

desk verdict Exact J=0 mapping to AAH is solid and the numerics are plausible, but the Appendix A perturbation theory is wrong because the unperturbed basis isn't eigenstates; still worth a proper refereeing. read the letter →

arxiv 2502.05847 v1 pith:PVHWHBGQ submitted 2025-02-09 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall

Zheng-Wei Zuo , Wanwan Shi , Haisheng Li This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

This paper argues that periodically modulated interactions are enough to make two-particle bound states (doublons) topological in one-dimensional lattices. In the strongly correlated limit, the two-boson sector of a Bose-Hubbard chain with on-site interaction $U_j=U\cos(2\pi\alpha j+\varphi)$ and uniform pair-hopping $g$ reduces exactly to the one-dimensional Aubry-André-Harper model, so the doublon bands form a Hofstadter butterfly with Chern numbers $(1,-2,1)$. The in-gap states are doublon edge states with both bosons at the same end; weak nearest-neighbor hopping preserves them, while stronger hopping drives the doublon bands into the scattering continuum (topological bound states in the continuum) and eventually dissociates the doublons. The same construction works for modulated pair-hopping and for spinless fermions, and in the mapped two-dimensional single-particle picture it yields corner states in one or two diagonal corners.

What carries the argument

The central object is the exact reduction of the two-particle sector to a one-dimensional Aubry-André-Harper model in the strongly correlated limit. At $J=0$ the two-boson amplitudes decouple, and the pair-hopping term $g$ couples only neighboring diagonal amplitudes $\beta_{j,j}$, yielding $g(\beta_{j-1,j-1}+\beta_{j+1,j+1})=(E-U_j)\beta_{j,j}$. Treating the modulation phase $\varphi$ as the momentum of a synthetic second dimension turns this into the Hofstadter model with flux $2\pi\alpha$, which supplies the butterfly spectrum, the Chern numbers, and the bulk-boundary correspondence for the doublon bands. For modulated pair-hopping $g_j=g[1+\lambda\cos(2\pi\alpha j+\varphi)]$, the same reduction gives the off-diagonal AAH model, which becomes the SSH model at $\alpha=1/2$ and carries chiral zero-energy doublon edge modes. For $J\neq0$, second-order perturbation theory produces an effective single-particle Hamiltonian for the doublon subspace, with renormalized on-site and hopping terms $U_j+2J^2/g$ and $g+J^2/g$, preserving the diagonal AAH form.

What would settle it

Run exact diagonalization of the two-boson Hamiltonian at small but nonzero $J$ (for instance $J/g=0.1$) with $\alpha=1/3$, and compare the in-gap doublon edge-state energies and density profiles with the diagonal AAH prediction using $U_j+2J^2/g$ and $g+J^2/g$; if the edge states split, move, or disappear, or if the doublon band Chern numbers change from $(1,-2,1)$ before the bands touch the scattering continuum, the robustness claim fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the strongly interacting two-particle sector of a one-dimensional Hubbard-type model inherits the full topological structure of the Aubry-André-Harper model when interactions are spatially modulated. At $J=0$ and with $U_j=U\cos(2\pi\alpha j+\varphi)$, $g_j=g$, the Schrödinger equation for the doublon amplitudes $\beta_{j,j}$ is $g(\beta_{j-1,j-1}+\beta_{j+1,j+1})=(E-U_j)\beta_{j,j}$, which is precisely the diagonal AAH model; the phase $\varphi$ acts as the momentum of a second dimension, mapping the system to the Hofstadter model with flux $2\pi\alpha$. At $\alpha=1/3$ the three doublon bands carry Chern numbers $(1,-2,1)$, and open-boundary spectra show topological in-gap doublon edge states whose densities concentrate at the chain ends. Modulating the pair-hopping instead gives the off-diagonal AAH model (reducing to SSH at $\alpha=1/2$) with chiral zero-energy doublon edge states. For weak $J\neq0$ the paper derives an effective diagonal AAH model for the doublon subspace with renormalized parameters, so the edge states survive weak hopping; when the doublon bands meet the scattering continuum, topological doublon bound states in the continuum appear, and beyond that the doublons collapse. The spinless-fermion version maps to a generalized AAH model with the same topological invariants and edge states.

Load-bearing premise

The analytic claim that weak nearest-neighbor hopping leaves the topological doublon states intact rests on a perturbation calculation whose unperturbed states are the localized two-boson states, even though the pair-hopping term already moves doublons between neighboring sites and so those states are not actual eigenstates.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Spatially modulated interactions are a sufficient ingredient for two-particle topology: at $J=0$ the doublon bands form a Hofstadter butterfly with quantized Chern numbers, with no modulated hopping required.
  • At $\alpha=1/3$ the three doublon bands carry Chern numbers $(1,-2,1)$, which implies exactly two topologically protected in-gap doublon edge states under open boundary conditions.
  • Weak nearest-neighbor hopping renormalizes the effective doublon model but leaves it in the Aubry-André-Harper class, so the topological edge states persist until the doublon bands touch the scattering continuum; the resulting topological bound states in the continuum are edge-localized doublon modes.
  • At sufficiently large hopping the doublons collapse: both bulk and edge doublon states dissociate into two weakly interacting bosons, setting an upper bound on the interaction-induced topological phase.
  • In the mapped 2D single-particle picture, the same phases appear as topological insulators and topological metals whose corner states occupy only one or two diagonal corners.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An immediate extension left implicit in the paper is that the exact $J=0$ reduction should hold for every rational $\alpha$, with the number of in-gap doublon edge states following the Diophantine integers of the Hofstadter butterfly rather than only the $\alpha=1/3$ example shown.
  • Because the analytical $J\neq0$ argument uses localized two-boson states as its starting point while the pair-hopping term already delocalizes them, a direct numerical check of whether the in-gap energies track the renormalized parameters $U_j+2J^2/g$ and $g+J^2/g$ would separate the exactly solved strong-interaction limit from the weak-hopping regime.
  • The one- or two-corner localization in the mapped 2D system is a distinctive fingerprint: measuring the number and diagonal position of corner states as the modulation phase is swept could distinguish interaction-induced doublon topology from ordinary single-particle higher-order topology.
  • The same mapping suggests that for incommensurate $\alpha$ the doublon sector would inherit the Aubry-André localization transition, giving a two-particle analog of Anderson localization that the paper does not discuss.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper studies topological two-particle states in one-dimensional Hubbard models with periodically modulated interactions. For the boson-Hubbard model with pair hopping and spatially modulated on-site interaction, the authors show that in the strongly correlated limit J=0 the doublon sector maps exactly to a diagonal Aubry-André-Harper model, producing butterfly-like doublon bands with Chern numbers (1,-2,1) and topological in-gap doublon edge states. For nonzero nearest-neighbor hopping J, exact diagonalization is used to display doublon edge states, topological bound states in the continuum, doublon collapse, and, in the mapped 2D single-particle picture, corner states in one or two corners. A parallel analysis is presented for a spinless fermion model with pair hopping. The paper also gives a second-order perturbation-theory derivation in Appendix A that is meant to support the robustness of the doublon edge states for weak J.

Significance. If the J≠0 robustness claim can be properly established, the paper provides a clean mechanism by which spatially modulated interactions induce topological doublon states in few-body systems, and it connects one-dimensional two-particle topology to corner states in two-dimensional single-particle models. The exact J=0 mapping to AAH models is elegant and appears fully correct, and the numerical spectra are plausible. The paper is also commendable in that it does not fit parameters to data: the Chern numbers and edge-state locations are derived from the model and its exact mapping. However, the analytic perturbation theory used to argue robustness at small J is flawed, and this weakens the support for several claims in the main text.

major comments (3)
  1. [Appendix A, Eqs. (A1)–(A5); Sec. II A, Eq. (6)] The perturbation calculation is not valid as written because the unperturbed states |2>_j are not eigenstates of the J=0 Hamiltonian in Eq. (4): the pair-hopping term couples |2>_j to |2>_{j±1}, as is evident from Eq. (5), so the exact J=0 doublon eigenstates are extended Bloch states of the diagonal AAH model, not localized states. Consequently, P H_b P in Eq. (A3) is not diagonal in the |2>_j basis, the eigenvalues E_j = U_j + 2g are not the correct unperturbed doublon energies, and the effective Hamiltonian in Eqs. (A4) and (A5) does not follow from a Schrieffer-Wolff expansion. This is load-bearing because Eq. (6) in Sec. II A is used to claim that the system “again becomes the diagonal AAH single particle model” for weak J and that the topological doublon edge states are robust. The exact J=0 mapping and the numerical ED results in Figs. 2 and 3 are not invalidated, but the analytic support for the J≠0 topological phases must be rederived using the exact J=0 doublon eigenstates (which will introduce momentum-dependent corrections) or explicitly replaced by direct numerical characterization.
  2. [Sec. II A, Fig. 3 and the discussion of J≠0] The numerical evidence for the “topological insulator” and “topological bound states in the continuum” at J=0.5 is not accompanied by a direct topological invariant of the interacting two-boson spectrum. The Chern numbers (1,-2,1) are computed for the J=0 diagonal AAH model, and the identification of the in-gap states at J≠0 as topological relies on Eq. (6), whose derivation is the issue described above. I recommend either computing an invariant that is valid for the interacting problem at J≠0 (for example, a flux-averaged Chern number or Bott index of the doublon subspace) or explicitly stating that the topological classification at J≠0 is an inference from the J=0 limit rather than a direct computation.
  3. [Sec. III, fermion model, t≠0] The same perturbation-theory argument is invoked for the fermion model (“the second order perturbation theory ... could also be used”). Since the derivation in Appendix A is invalid for the boson model, the analytic robustness claim for the fermionic topological doublon edge states at t≠0 is likewise unsupported. The numerical spectra in Figs. 5(b)–5(d) still provide evidence for the existence of pair edge states, but the statement that these states are topological for t≠0 requires either a corrected effective theory or a direct invariant calculation.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sec. II A, IPR definition] The text reads “inverse participation patio”; this should be “inverse participation ratio.” Also, the subscript n in IPR_n is used without defining it explicitly as the eigenstate index.
  2. [Fig. 2 caption and surrounding text] The caption contains the typo “respectivly”; it should be “respectively.” In the text near Fig. 2, “the topological doublon state is located in the two end regions” should read “the two topological doublon states are located in the two end regions” for the inversion-symmetric case.
  3. [Sec. II A, scattering states] The sentence “the energy spectra of scattering states have been eliminated” is unclear: please clarify whether the scattering states were projected out before diagonalization or simply omitted from the plotted spectra.
  4. [Appendix A, notation] The subspace labels “U” and “V” collide with the interaction amplitude U and the complement symbol V. Consider renaming these subspaces, for example “D” and “S.” In addition, the operator S in Eq. (A2) is not a projection operator; it is the off-diagonal part of the resolvent, and the text should say so explicitly.
  5. [Sec. II A, Fig. 3(c) discussion] The sentence “When the onsite interaction U becomes strong, the topological doublon edge states could become unstable (see Fig.3 [c], where the perturbation theory has broken down)” is confusing because the inset of Fig. 3(c) shows the edge states still present at U=2. Please clarify what “unstable” means and how the perturbation-theory breakdown is diagnosed.

Circularity Check

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No circularity in the central derivation: the J=0 doublon mapping to the AAH model is exact, Chern numbers and edge states come from standard AAH/Hofstadter theory and exact diagonalization, and the paper's only self-citations are non-load-bearing.

full rationale

The central claim is self-contained rather than circular. At J=0, Eq. (5) is exactly the diagonal Aubry-Andre-Harper tight-binding equation for the doublon amplitudes, so the reduction of the two-boson sector to the 1D diagonal AAH model is a direct algebraic consequence of the Hamiltonian, not an input disguised as a result. Likewise, Eq. (7) and Eq. (9) are exact reductions to the off-diagonal and generalized AAH models. The Chern numbers (1,-2,1), the butterfly spectra, and the in-gap edge states are then obtained from the standard AAH/Hofstadter correspondence and from exact diagonalization with the given model parameters U, g, J, alpha, and phi; no parameter is fitted to the numerical output and no predicted quantity is forced by a fitting procedure. The paper contains some self-citations (Refs. 72, 83, 84, 90), but these appear in the introduction and in general context and are not load-bearing: the main mapping and spectral analysis do not depend on those works. One technical concern is that the perturbation theory in Appendix A treats the localized states |2>_j as eigenstates of the J=0 Hamiltonian, whereas the pair-hopping term g couples these states to |2>_(j+1) and |2>_(j-1); this makes Eq. (A4/A5) and Eq. (6) not properly derived. That is a correctness issue and weakens the analytic robustness argument for small J, but it is not a circularity because the primary claims rest on the exact J=0 reduction and on the J>0 numerical exact-diagonalization results, which stand independently. Overall, the paper's derivation chain does not reduce to its own inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central derivation (J=0) rests on the 2D mapping and the AAH equivalence, both standard. The weak-J perturbation theory in Appendix A rests on an unproven and likely incorrect assumption about the unperturbed eigenstates. No entities are invented beyond the known doublon quasiparticle.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The two-particle problem maps exactly to a 2D single-particle lattice (Refs 48-50).
    Invoked in Sec. II to derive Eq. 3 and used throughout to interpret 1D edge states as 2D corner states.
  • standard math The phase φ of the on-site modulation can be treated as a synthetic momentum dimension, allowing the use of 2D topological invariants (Chern numbers) on the (k, φ) torus.
    Used in Sec. II A to assign Chern numbers (1,-2,1); this is the standard AAH-to-Hofstadter equivalence.
  • ad hoc to paper The unperturbed doublon states |2>_j with eigenvalues E_j = U_j + 2g are eigenstates for the perturbation theory in Appendix A.
    This is false when pair-hopping g is nonzero; |2>_j are coupled to |2>_{j±1}. The Appendix uses this to derive the effective Hamiltonian Eq. A4.
  • standard math Bulk-boundary correspondence applies to the mapped 2D single-particle system so that nonzero Chern numbers imply edge states.
    Standard in topological band theory; used to claim the in-gap states in Fig. 2(a) are topological.

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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.

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