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We present a framework to systematically address topological phases when finer partitionings of bands are taken into account, rather than only considering the two subspaces spanned by valence and conduction bands. Focusing on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Adrien Bouhon , Tomáš Bzdušek , Robert-Jan Slager

Both theoretical and experimental studies of topological phases in non-Hermitian systems have made a remarkable progress in the last few years of research. In this article, we review the key concepts pertaining to topological phases in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Ananya Ghatak , Tanmoy Das

We uncover the very rich graph topology of generic bounded non-Hermitian spectra, distinct from the topology of conventional band invariants and complex spectral winding. The graph configuration of complex spectra are characterized by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Tommy Tai , Ching Hua Lee

Hopf insulators represent a unique class of topological insulators that exist exclusively in two-band systems and are inherently unstable upon the inclusion of additional bands. Meanwhile, recent studies have shown that non-Hermiticity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Daichi Nakamura , Kohei Kawabata

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

Topology is central to understanding and engineering materials that display robust physical phenomena immune to imperfections. Different topological phases of matter are characterised by topological invariants. In energy-conserving…

Non-Hermitian theory is a theoretical framework that excels at describing open systems. It offers a powerful tool in the characterization of both the intrinsic degrees of freedom (DOFs) of a system and the interactions with the external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Kun Ding , Chen Fang , Guancong Ma

We demonstrate the existence of topologically stable unpaired exceptional points (EPs), and construct simple non-Hermitian (NH) tight-binding models exemplifying such remarkable nodal phases. While fermion doubling, i.e. the necessity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 J. Lukas K. König , Kang Yang , Jan Carl Budich , Emil J. Bergholtz

A non-Hermitian system can exhibit extensive sensitivity of its complex energy spectrum to the imposed boundary conditions, which is beyond any known phenomenon from Hermitian systems. In addition to topologically protected boundary modes,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-15 Ching Hua Lee , Ronny Thomale

We develop a complete theory of symmetry and topology in non-Hermitian physics. We demonstrate that non-Hermiticity ramifies the celebrated Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classification for insulators and superconductors. In particular, charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Masahito Ueda , Masatoshi Sato

The study of topological properties by machine learning approaches has attracted considerable interest recently. Here we propose machine learning the topological invariants that are unique in non-Hermitian systems. Specifically, we train…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Ling-Feng Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Zhi-Hao Huang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Wei Huang , Dan-Wei Zhang

Topological phases and transitions are of fundamental importance in physics, which provide a deep insight into the understanding of materials. Recently, non-Abelian topological transitions have been investigated in Hermitian systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yunhan Wang , Yang Wu , Xiangyu Ye , Chang-Kui Duan , Ya Wang , Haiping Hu , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

This work unveils how geometric features of two-band non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can completely classify the topology of their eigenstates and energy manifolds. Our approach generalizes the Bloch sphere visualization of Hermitian systems to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Jiangbin Gong

We develop a topological classification of non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonians that depend on momentum and frequency. Such effective Hamiltonians are in one-to-one correspondence to single-particle Green's functions of systems that satisfy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-14 Maximilian Kotz , Carsten Timm

We show that many-body fermionic non-Hermitian systems require two distinct sets of topological invariants to describe the topology of energy bands and quantum states respectively, with the latter yet to be explored. We identify 10 symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Kui Cao , Su-Peng Kou

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the concepts of symmetry and topology in physics. Particularly, non-Hermiticity gives rise to the ramified symmetries, where the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $H$ is transformed to $H^\dagger$. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 W. B. Rui , Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

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

Although topological band theory has been used to discover and classify a wide array of novel topological phases in insulating and semi-metal systems, it is not well-suited to identifying topological phenomena in metallic or gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Alexander Cerjan , Terry A. Loring

Non-Hermitian systems give rise to distinct topological phenomena, yet their manifestations at temporal interfaces characterized by abrupt changes in system parameters remain largely unex plored. Upon an abrupt alteration of the Hamiltonian…

Braiding has attracted significant attention in physics because of its important role in describing the fundamental exchange of particles. Infusing the braiding with topological protection will make it robust against imperfections and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Xiao-Ming Wang , Jiaying Xu , Xulong Wang , Zhen Li , Guancong Ma