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Non-Hermiticity gives rise to unique topological phases that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Such intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases appear even in one dimension while no topological phases appear in one-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu

Non-Hermitian systems have been discussed mostly in the context of open systems and nonequilibrium. Recent experimental progress is much from optical, cold-atomic, and classical platforms due to the vast tunability and clear identification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

A prominent feature of some one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems is that all right-eigenstates of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian are localized in one end of the chain. The topological and trivial phases are distinguished by the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Motohiko Ezawa

Nonlinear topological insulators have garnered substantial recent attention as they have both enabled the discovery of new physics due to interparticle interactions, and may have applications in photonic devices such as topological lasers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Stephan Wong , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

Non-Hermiticity has widespread applications in quantum physics. It brings about distinct topological phases without Hermitian counterparts, and gives rise to the fundamental challenge of phase classification from both theoretical and…

Examples of non-hermitian quantum systems admitting topological insulator phase are presented in one, two and three space dimensions. All of these non-hermitian Hamiltonians have entirely real bulk eigenvalues and unitarity is maintained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-19 Pijush K. Ghosh

Topological edge modes are excitations that are localized at the materials' edges and yet are characterized by a topological invariant defined in the bulk. Such bulk-edge correspondence has enabled the creation of robust electronic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Ananya Ghatak , Martin Brandenbourger , Jasper van Wezel , Corentin Coulais

Exceptional points play a pivotal role in the topology of non-Hermitian systems, and significant advances have been made in classifying exceptional points and exploring the associated phenomena. Exceptional surfaces, which are hypersurfaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 Hongwei Jia , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Jing Hu , Yixin Xiao , Yifei Zhu , C. T. Chan

We introduce a framework, twisted parametrized stable homotopy theory, for describing semi-infinite homotopy types. A twisted parametrized spectrum is a section of a bundle whose fibre is the category of spectra. We define these bundles in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christopher L. Douglas

Band structures of metamaterials described by a nonlinear eigenvalue problem are beyond the existing topological band theory. In this paper, we analyze non-Hermitian topology under the nonlinearity of eigenvalues. Specifically, we elucidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tsuneya Yoshida , Takuma Isobe , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Topological metals are special conducting materials with gapless band structures and nontrivial edge-localized resonances, whose discovery has proved elusive because the traditional topological classification methods do not apply in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Wenting Cheng , Alexander Cerjan , Ssu-Ying Chen , Emil Prodan , Terry A. Loring , Camelia Prodan

The electronic bands are classified according to their topology. We compute the connection and curvature for the electronic bands and show that the physical properties are determined by topological invariants which are equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 D. Schmeltzer

Fractional statistics is one of the most intriguing features of topological phases in 2D. In particular, the so-called non-Abelian statistics plays a crucial role towards realizing universal topological quantum computation. Recently, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-29 Jing-Ren Zhou , Qing-Rui Wang , Chenjie Wang , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We consider nontrivial topological phases in Floquet systems using unitary loops and stroboscopic evolutions under a static Floquet Hamiltonian $H_F$ in the presence of dynamical space-time symmetries $G$. While the latter has been subject…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Ilyoun Na , Jack Kemp , Robert-Jan Slager , Yang Peng

The anomaly of non-invertible higher-form symmetries is determined by the braiding of topological operators implementing them. In this paper, we study a method to classify braidings on topological line and surface operators by leveraging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Pavel Putrov , Rajath Radhakrishnan

Directly identifying the non-Abelian nodal-line semimetals (NASM) is quite challenging because nodal-line semimetals typically do not possess topologically protected boundary modes. Here, by reconstructing the correspondence between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Maopeng Wu , Mingze Weng , Qian Zhao , Yonggang Meng , Ji Zhou

Recently, the study of topological structures in photonics has garnered significant interest, as these systems can realize robust, non-reciprocal chiral edge states and cavity-like confined states that have applications in both linear and…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-30 Alexander Cerjan , Terry A. Loring

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

Non-Hermitian topological matter provides a platform for engineering phenomena that go beyond the capabilities of Hermitian systems, enabling the use of losses to engineer topological phenomena. Non-Hermitian models often rely on artificial…

We study non-interacting electrons in disordered materials which exhibit a spectral gap, in each of the ten Altland--Zirnbauer symmetry classes, in all space dimensions. We define an appropriate space of Hamiltonians and a topology on it so…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jui-Hui Chung , Jacob Shapiro