Observation of non-Hermitian topology with non-unitary dynamics of solid-state spins
Abstract
Non-Hermitian topological phases exhibit a number of exotic features that have no Hermitian counterparts, including the skin effect and breakdown of the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we implement the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) Hamiltonian, which is a prototypical model for studying non-Hermitian topological phases, with a solid-state quantum simulator consisting of an electron spin and a C nuclear spin in a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in a diamond. By employing a dilation method, we realize the desired non-unitary dynamics for the electron spin and map out its spin texture in the momentum space, from which the corresponding topological invariant can be obtained directly. Our result paves the way for further exploiting and understanding the intriguing properties of non-Hermitian topological phases with solid-state spins or other quantum simulation platforms.
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@article{arxiv.2012.09191,
title = {Observation of non-Hermitian topology with non-unitary dynamics of solid-state spins},
author = {Wengang Zhang and Xiaolong Ouyang and Xianzhi Huang and Xin Wang and Huili Zhang and Yefei Yu and Xiuying Chang and Yanqing Liu and Dong-Ling Deng and L. -M. Duan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09191},
year = {2021}
}
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10 pages, 6 figures