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The non-Bloch topology leads to the emergence of various counter-intuitive phenomena in non-Hermitian systems under the open boundary condition (OBC), which can not find a counterpart in Hermitian systems. However, in the non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Yue Zhang , Shuai Li , Yingchao Xu , Rui Tian , Miao Zhang , Hongrong Li , Hong Gao , M. Suhail Zubairy , Fuli Li , Bo Liu

We study topological properties of phase transition points of two topologically non-trivial $\mathbb{Z}_2$ classes (D and DIII) in one dimension by assigning a Berry phase defined on closed circles around the gap closing points in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-20 Linhu Li , Chao Yang , Shu Chen

We study charge pumping in generic non-Hermitian settings and show that quantized charge pumping is only guaranteed under a biorthogonal formalism therein, where the charge transport is evaluated using the left and right eigenvectors of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Zhenming Zhang , Tianyu Li , Xiwang Luo , Wei Yi

Recently developed parity ($\mathcal{P}$) and time-reversal ($\mathcal{T}$) symmetric non-Hermitian quantum theory is envisioned to have far-reaching implications in basic science and applications. It is known that the $PT$-inner product is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Ananya Ghatak , Tanmoy Das

Topological properties lie at the heart of many fascinating phenomena in solid state systems such as quantum Hall systems or Chern insulators. The topology can be captured by the distribution of Berry curvature, which describes the geometry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-31 N. Fläschner , B. S. Rem , M. Tarnowski , D. Vogel , D. -S. Lühmann , K. Sengstock , C. Weitenberg

We characterize non-Hermitian band structures by symmetry indicator topological invariants. Enabled by crystalline inversion symmetry, these indicators allow us to short-cut the calculation of conventional non-Hermitian topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Pascal M. Vecsei , M. Michael Denner , Titus Neupert , Frank Schindler

We obtain the band structure of a particle moving in a magnetic spin texture, classified by its chirality and structure factor, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. This rich interplay leads to a variety of novel topological phases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-17 Timothy M. McCormick , Nandini Trivedi

Recent interest has surged in eigenvalue's nonlinearity-based topological transport governed by the equation of auxiliary eigenvalues $H\Psi=\omega S(\omega)\Psi$ [T. Isobe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 126601 (2024); C. Bai and Z. Liang,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-22 Yanqi Zheng , Kun Pu , Ligging Ren , Chenxi Bai , Zhaoxin Liang

We investigate the role of topology in the space-time scaling limit of quantum quench dynamics, where both time and system size tend to infinity at a constant ratio. There, while the standard topological characterization relying on local…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-14 Lorenzo Rossi , Jan Carl Budich , Fabrizio Dolcini

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to distinctive topological phenomena absent in Hermitian systems. However, connection between such intrinsic non-Hermitian topology and Hermitian topology has remained largely elusive. Here, considering the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Shu Hamanaka , Tsuneya Yoshida , Kohei Kawabata

A scenario of non-Hermitian bulk--boundary correspondence proposed for one-dimensional topological insulators is adapted to a non-Hermitian Chern insulator to examine its applicability to two-dimensional systems. This scenario employs bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Yositake Takane

Electron motion in crystals is governed by the coupling between crystal momentum and internal degrees of freedom such as spin implicit in the band structure. The description of this coupling in terms of a momentum-dependent effective field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 F. Couëdo , H. Irie , T. Akiho , K. Suzuki , K. Onomitsu , K. Muraki

We establish an exact analytical relation between Zitterbewegung dynamics and the band geometry in two-dimensional Dirac systems. By identifying a time-independent antisymmetric observable-the \textit{areal rate of Zitterbewegung}-we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Sonja Predin

We study coupled non-Hermitian Rice-Mele chains, which consist of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain system with staggered on-site imaginary potentials. In two dimensional (2D) thermodynamic limit, the exceptional points (EPs) are shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 C. Li , Z. Song

We theoretically establish that non-Hermitian perturbations induce a topological transformation of point-like Dirac monopoles into extended monopole distributions, characterized by distinct charge configurations emergent from three distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Haiyang Yu , Tao Jiang , Li-Chen Zhao

Topology plays a central role in nearly all disciplines of physics, yet its applications have so far been restricted to closed, lossless systems in thermodynamic equilibrium. Given that many physical systems are open and may include gain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Timothy M. Philip , Matthew J. Gilbert

The theory of the shift current is thus far geometrical without being topological. This means that the real-space displacement/shift of a photoexcited quasiparticle depends on the geometric Berry phase, but the Berry phase is not quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 A. Alexandradinata

We address the conditions required for a $\mathbb{Z}$ topological classification in the most general form of the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. Any chirally-symmetric SSH model will possess a "conjugated-pseudo-Hermiticity"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Simon Lieu

We propose a non-Hermitian topological system protected by the generalized rotational symmetry which invokes rotation in space and Hermitian conjugation. The system, described by the tight-binding model with nonreciprocal hopping, is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Kai Chen , Alexander B. Khanikaev

We approach the long-standing problem of preparing an out-of-equilibrium many-body Chern insulator (CI) and associated bulk-boundary correspondence unitarily. Herein, this is addressed by constructing a dynamical many-body Chern invariant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-15 Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Amit Dutta