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In topology, one averages over local geometrical details to reveal robust global features. This approach proves crucial for understanding quantized bulk transport and exotic boundary effects of linear wave propagation in (meta-)materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Greta Villa , Javier del Pino , Vincent Dumont , Gianluca Rastelli , Mateusz Michałek , Alexander Eichler , Oded Zilberberg

Self-propulsion is a quintessential aspect of biological systems, which can induce nonequilibrium phenomena that have no counterparts in passive systems. Motivated by biophysical interest together with recent advances in experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Kazuki Sone , Kazuki Yokomizo , Kyogo Kawaguchi , Yuto Ashida

Exceptional points (EPs) are peculiar band singularities and play a vital role in a rich array of unusual optical phenomena and non-Hermitian band theory. In this paper, we provide a topological classification of isolated EPs based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Haiping Hu , Shikang Sun , Shu Chen

We provide classification of gapless phases in non-Hermitian systems according to two types of complex-energy gaps: point gap and line gap. We show that exceptional points, at which not only eigenenergies but also eigenstates coalesce, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Takumi Bessho , Kohei Kawabata , Masatoshi Sato

Non-Hermitian physics enriches the topological attributes of non-Abelian systems. Non-Abelian systems characterized by noncommutative braid patterns are associated with intriguing physical features and applications. Non-Abelian braiding of…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-30 Samit Kumar Gupta

The interplay between topological localization and non-Hermiticity localization in non-Hermitian crystal systems results in a diversity of shapes of topological edge modes (EMs), offering opportunities to manipulate these modes for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Zihe Yang , Kunling Zhou , Bowen Zeng , Yong Hu

The recently discovered non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) manifests the breakdown of current classification of topological phases in energy-nonconservative systems, and necessitates the introduction of non-Hermitian band topology. So far,…

Non-Hermitian systems generically have complex energies, which may host topological structures, such as links or knots. While there has been great progress in experimentally engineering non-Hermitian models in quantum simulators, it remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Mingming Cao , Kai Li , Wending Zhao , Weixuan Guo , Bingxiag Qi , Xiuying Chang , Zichao Zhou , Yong Xu , Luming Duan

We study a new class of non-Hermitian topological phases in three dimension in the absence of any symmetry, where the topological robust band degeneracies are Hopf-link exceptional lines. As a concrete example, we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Zhesen Yang , Jiangping Hu

While topology can impose obstructions to exponentially localized Wannier functions, certain topological insulators are exempt from such Wannier obstructions. The absence of the Wannier obstructions can further accompany topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Daichi Nakamura , Ken Shiozaki , Kenji Shimomura , Masatoshi Sato , Kohei Kawabata

Establishing the fundamental relation between the homotopy invariants and the band topology of Hamiltonians has played a critical role in the recent development of topological phase research. In this work, we establish the homotopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Hyeongmuk Lim , Sunje Kim , Bohm-Jung Yang

Recent work suggests that topological features of certain quantum gravity theories can be interpreted as particles, matching the known fermions and bosons of the first generation in the Standard Model. This is achieved by identifying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Sundance Bilson-Thompson , Jonathan Hackett , Louis H. Kauffman

Non-Hermitian nodal knot metals (NKMs) contains intricate complex-valued energy bands gives rise to knotted exceptional loops and new topological surface states. We introduce a formalism that connects the algebraic, geometric, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Xiao Zhang , Guangjie Li , Yuhan Liu , Tommy Tai , Ronny Thomale , Ching Hua Lee

The search of topological states in non-Hermitian systems has gained a strong momentum over the last two years climbing to the level of an emergent research front. In this Perspective we give an overview with a focus in connecting this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Luis E. F. Foa Torres

Externally controllable band gap properties of a material is crucial in designing optoelectronic devices with desirable properties on-demand. Here, a possibility of single parameter tuning of trivial to non-trivial topological band gap by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Bikashkali Midya

Recently, topological quantum states of non-Hermitian systems, exhibiting rich new exotic states, have attracted great attention in condensed-matter physics. As for the demonstration, most of non-Hermitian topological phenomena previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Huaiqiang Wang , Jiawei Ruan , Haijun Zhang

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit diverse graph patterns of energy spectra under open boundary conditions. Here we present an algebraic framework to comprehensively characterize the spectral geometry and graph topology of non-Bloch bands. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Yuncheng Xiong , Haiping Hu

Non-Hermitian systems host band degeneracies that are fundamentally distinct from those in Hermitian systems, most notably exceptional points (EPs) where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In three dimensional (3D) non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Bin Jiang , Aolong Guo , Qilin Cai , Jian-Hua Jiang

We revisit the problem of characterizing band topology in dynamically-stable quadratic bosonic Hamiltonians that do not conserve particle number. We show this problem can be rigorously addressed by a smooth and local adiabatic mapping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Gaurav Chaudhary , Michael Levin , Aashish A. Clerk

The moire flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene have attracted considerable attention not only because of the emergence of correlated phases but also due to their nontrivial topology. Specifically, they exhibit a new class of topology that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Ki Young Lee , Stephan Wong , Sachin Vaidya , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan