Quench Dynamics and Bulk-Edge Correspondence in Nonlinear Mechanical Systems

We study a topological physics in a one-dimensional nonlinear system by taking an instance of a mechanical rotator model with alternating spring constants. This nonlinear model is smoothly connected to an acoustic model described by the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in the linear limit. We numerically show that quench dynamics of the kinetic and potential energies for the nonlinear model is well understood in terms of the topological and trivial phases defined in the associated linearized model. It indicates phenomenologically the emergence of the edge state in the topological phase even for the nonlinear system, which may be the bulk-edge correspondence in nonlinear system.

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Topological physics in one-dimensional nonlinear systems is studied using a mechanical rotator model. The emergence of edge states in the topological phase for the nonlinear system indicates a potential bulk-edge correspondence.