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Numerous efforts have been devoted to reveal exotic semimetallic phases with topologically non-trivial bulk and/or surface states in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling. In particular, semimetals with nodal line Fermi surface (FS)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-22 Yige Chen , Heung-Sik Kim , Hae-Young Kee

Knots and links are fascinating and intricate topological objects. Their influence spans from DNA and molecular chemistry to vortices in superfluid helium, defects in liquid crystals and cosmic strings in the early universe. Here, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Dong-Ling Deng , Sheng-Tao Wang , Kai Sun , L. -M. Duan

The semi-metals having electrons near the Fermi level follow the relativistic equation of motion, and show Dirac or Weyl-type behavior. Their orbital resolved electronic bands analysis indicates the non-trivial topological states. Through…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-07 NK Karn , VPS Awana

Dissipatively stabilized cat qubits are promising for fault-tolerant quantum information processing, yet their non-Hermitian (NH) spectral topology remains largely unexplored. We uncover rich Liouvillian exceptional structures in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Tian-Le Yang , Pei-Rong Han , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Topological phenomena in non-Hermitian systems have recently become a subject of great interest in the photonics and condensed-matter communities. In particular, the possibility of observing topologically-protected edge states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Pablo Reséndiz-Vázquez , Konrad Tschernig , Armando Perez-Leija , Kurt Busch , Roberto de J. León-Montiel

Knots have a twisted history in quantum physics. They were abandoned as failed models of atoms. Only much later was the connection between knot invariants and Wilson loops in topological quantum field theory discovered. Here we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Haiping Hu , Erhai Zhao

Non-Hermitian skin effect(NHSE) describes a unique non-Hermitian phenomenon that all eigen-modes are localized near the boundary, and has profound impact on a wide range of bulk properties. In particular, topological systems with NHSE have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-29 Lihong Zhou , Haowei Li , Wei Yi , Xiaoling Cui

Symmetry-driven wave physics in open systems, exemplified by parity-time (PT) symmetry, has extended the landscape of crystalline phases in materials science to include gain-loss media. Given the growing interest in engineering disorder for…

Recent experimental advances in controlling dissipation have brought about unprecedented flexibility in engineering non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in open classical and quantum systems. A particular interest centers on the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Zongping Gong , Yuto Ashida , Kohei Kawabata , Kazuaki Takasan , Sho Higashikawa , Masahito Ueda

We describe recent progress in our understanding of the interplay between interactions, symmetry, and topology in states of quantum matter. We focus on a minimal generalization of the celebrated topological band insulators to interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 T. Senthil

The skin effect and topological edge states in non-Hermitian system have been well-studied, and the second-order skin effect and corner modes have also been proposed in non-Hermitian system recently. In this paper, we construct the nested…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yongxu Fu , Jihan Hu , Shaolong Wan

Topologically protected fermionic quasiparticles occur in metals with band degeneracy as a consequence of band structure topology. Here we unveil topological semimetal and metal phases in a variety of non-symmorphic collinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-12 Wojciech Brzezicki , Mario Cuoco

We analyze a diamond-lattice Hubbard model with the spatially modulated Hubbard interaction. Our dynamical mean-field analysis with special emphasis on non-Hermitian properties elucidates that the gapless nodal line changes into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 Kazuhiro Kimura , Tsuneya Yoshida , Norio Kawakami

We present a formalism which enables us to express, for arbitrary d, the behaviour of the momentum-distribution function n_{sigma}(k) pertaining to uniform metallic ground states of the single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian H close to S_{F;sigma}…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Behnam Farid

One-dimensional non-Hermitian quasicrystals with parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetry can simultaneously exhibit localization-delocalization transition, topological phase transition, and PT-symmetry-breaking transition. This motivates…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-26 Guangjie Zhang , Bing Shao , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong , Weiwei Zhu

Non-Hermiticity appears ubiquitously in various open classical and quantum systems and enriches classification of topological phases. However, the role of nonsymmorphic symmetry, crystalline symmetry accompanying fractional lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Daichi Nakamura , Yutaro Tanaka , Ken Shiozaki , Kohei Kawabata

We examine a non-Hermitian (NH) tight-binding system comprising of two orbitals per unit cell and their electrical circuit analogues. We distinguish the PT-symmetric and non-PT symmetric cases characterised by non-reciprocal nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Dipendu Halder , Ronny Thomale , Saurabh Basu

We propose a five-band tight-binding model for the Fe-As layers of iron pnictides with the hopping amplitudes calculated within the Slater-Koster framework. The band structure found in DFT, including the orbital content of the bands, is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-08 M. J. Calderon , B. Valenzuela , E. Bascones

The time evolution of a system with a time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is in general unstable with exponential growth or decay. A periodic driving field may stabilize the dynamics because the eigenphases of the associated Floquet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jiangbin Gong , Qing-hai Wang

At thermal equilibrium, we find that generalized susceptibilities encoding the static physical response properties of Hermitian many-electron systems possess inherent non-Hermitian (NH) matrix symmetries. This leads to the generic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-08 Matthias Reitner , Lorenzo Crippa , Dominik Robert Fus , Jan Carl Budich , Alessandro Toschi , Giorgio Sangiovanni