Acoustic Adiabatic Propagation Based on Topological Pumping in a Coupled Multicavity Chain Lattice

Abstract

Stimulated adiabatic passage, as an efficient energy transfer in correlated systems, was intensively studied in condensed matter physics and quantum optics. Recently, a paradigm shift has been made to bring up quantum-classical analogs, giving rise to the acoustic version of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage and others. In this work, we focus on the adiabatic propagation of sound under topological protection, i.e., topological-pumping-based acoustic adiabatic propagation. We first study the topological pumping of sound in a two-state multicavity chain lattice, including the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, in which the acoustic energy is adiabatically transferred between the two topological end states under specific coupling interactions. Then, we consider the adiabatic propagation of sound via a dark mode in a three-state system. The three states correspond to two end states and one interface state in a heterostructured multicavity chain lattice, which is topologically protected. In a finite system, the three states strongly hybridize with the threefold energy degeneracy lifted. The hybridized states reside in the band gap of the systematic Hamiltonian spectrum in the topological pumping process, leading to a strong robustness against nonadiabatic perturbation, which allows for a faster and more efficient topological adiabatic propagation of acoustic waves.