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The XX spin-chain with non-Hermitian diagonal boundary conditions is shown to be quasi-Hermitian for special values of the boundary parameters. This is proved by explicit construction of a new inner product employing a "quasi-fermion"…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Christian Korff

The bulk-edge correspondence is a fundamental principle of topological wave physics, which states that the difference in gap Chern numbers between the interfaced materials is equal to the net number of topological edge modes. Although this…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-09 Samaneh Pakniyat , S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , George W Hanson

We explore band structures of one-dimensional open systems described by periodic non-Hermitian operators, based on continuum models and tight-binding models. We show that imaginary scalar potentials do not open band gaps but instead lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Ken Mochizuki , Tomoki Ozawa

Recently, general methods of bosonization beyond 1+1 dimensions have been developed. In this article, we review these bosonizations and extend them to the case with boundary conditions. In particular, we study the case when the bulk theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-18 Ryan Thorngren

It has recently been established that open quantum systems may exhibit a strong spectral sensitivity to boundary conditions, known as the non-Hermitian/Liouvillian skin effect (NHSE/LSE), making the topological properties of the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-15 Pablo Bayona-Pena , Ryo Hanai , Takashi Mori , Hisao Hayakawa

We establish a non-Bloch band theory for one-dimensional(1D) non-Hermitian topological superconductors. The universal physical properties of non-Hermitian topological superconductors are revealed based on the theory. According to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-20 Yang Cao , Yang Li , Yuanping Chen , Xiaosen Yang

Within the expanding field of non-Hermitian physics, non-Hermitian pumping has emerged as a key phenomenon, epitomized through the skin effect via extensive boundary mode accumulation modifying the conventional Bloch picture. Beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Ching Hua Lee , Linhu Li , Ronny Thomale , Jiangbin Gong

Understanding the extreme sensitivity of the eigenvalues of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians to the boundary conditions is of great importance when analyzing non-Hermitian systems, as it appears generically and is intimately connected to the skin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Elisabet Edvardsson , Eddy Ardonne

We present minimal toy models for topological skyrmion phases of matter, which generically realize type-II topological phase transitions in effectively non-interacting systems, those which occur without closing of the minimum direct bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Reyhan Ay , Joe H. Winter , A. M. Cook

We establish a unified framework for dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in non-Hermitian systems that encompasses both biorthogonal and self-norm non-biorthogonal formulations for pure and mixed states under quantum quench…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yongxu Fu , Gao Xianlong

We investigate the role of self-adjoint extensions in the bulk-edge correspondence for topological insulators. While the correspondence is well understood in discrete models with spectral gaps, complications arise in the presence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Johannes Kellendonk , Tom Stoiber

Bulk-boundary correspondence is a fundamental principle in topological physics. In recent years, there have been considerable efforts in extending the idea of geometry and topology to classical stochastic systems far from equilibrium.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Taro Sawada , Kazuki Sone , Kazuki Yokomizo , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

We discuss the relation between bulk topological invariants and the spectrum of surface states in three dimensional non-interacting topological insulators. By studying particular models, and considering general boundary conditions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Isaev , Y. H. Moon , G. Ortiz

The zero-mode corner states in the gap of two-dimensional non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model are robust to infinitesimal perturbations that preserve chiral symmetry. However, we demonstrate that this general belief is no longer valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Xue-Min Yang , Hao Lin , Jian Li , Jia-Ji Zhu , Jun-Li Zhu , Hong Wu

Non-Hermitian physics has become a fundamental framework for understanding open systems where gain and loss play essential roles, with impact across photonics, quantum science, and condensed matter. While the role of complex eigenvalues is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Kyu-Won Park , Soojoon Lee , Kabgyun Jeong

A general free bosonic system with a pairing term is described by a bosonic Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) Hamiltonian. The representation is given by a pseudo-Hermitian matrix, which is crucially different from the Hermitian representation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Nobuyuki Okuma

In this paper, we propose a new type of bulk-boundary correspondence as a generic approach to theoretically and experimentally detect fragile topological states. When the fragile phase can be written as a difference of a trivial atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zhi-Da Song , Luis Elcoro , B. Andrei Bernevig

The non-Hermitian skin effect is a phenomenon in which an extensive number of states accumulates at the boundaries of a system. It has been associated to nontrivial topology, with nonzero bulk invariants predicting its appearance and its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Helene Spring , Viktor Könye , Anton R. Akhmerov , Ion Cosma Fulga

We study topological phases in the hyperbolic plane using noncommutative geometry and T-duality, and show that fractional versions of the quantised indices for integer, spin and anomalous quantum Hall effects can result. Generalising models…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-06 Varghese Mathai , Guo Chuan Thiang

A notable feature of non-Hermitian systems with skin effects is the sensitivity of their spectra and eigenstates to the boundary conditions. In the literature, three types of boundary conditions-periodic boundary condition,open boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Junjie Wang , Fude Li , X. X. Yi