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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 numerically investigate non-Abelian braiding dynamics of vortices in two-dimensional topological superconductors, such as $s$-wave superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Majorana zero modes (MZMs) hosted by the vortices…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-16 Takumi Sanno , Shunsuke Miyazaki , Takeshi Mizushima , Satoshi Fujimoto

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit a variety of unique features rooted in the presence of exceptional points (EP). The distinct topological structure in the proximity of an EP gives rise to counterintuitive behaviors absent in Hermitian systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 He Zhang , Tong Liu , Zhongcheng Xiang , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Dongning Zheng

Topological gapless phases of matter have been a recent interest among theoretical and experimental condensed matter physicists. Fermionic chains with extended nearest neighbor couplings have been observed to show unique topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Ranjith R Kumar , Hideaki Obuse

The study of topological band insulators has revealed fascinating phases characterized by band topology indices and anomalous boundary modes protected by global symmetries. In strongly correlated systems, where the traditional notion of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-12 Chao Xu , Yixin Ma , Shenghan Jiang

The braiding operations of quantum states have attracted substantial attention due to their great potential for realizing topological quantum computations. In this paper, we show that a three-fold degenerate eigen subspace can be obtained…

Recent advances in programmable quantum devices brought to the fore the intriguing possibility of using them to realise and investigate topological quantum spin liquid phases. This new and exciting direction brings about important research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Shiyu Zhou , Maria Zelenayova , Oliver Hart , Claudio Chamon , Claudio Castelnovo

The quantum-mechanical description of assemblies of particles whose motion is confined to two (or one) spatial dimensions offers many possibilities that are distinct from bosons and fermions. We call such particles anyons. The simplest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-22 Martin Greiter , Frank Wilczek

Recently, many novel and exotic phases have been proposed by considering the role of topology in non-Hermitian systems, and their emergent properties are of wide current interest. In this work we propose the non-Hermitian generalization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Ayan Banerjee , Awadhesh Narayan

We study how quantum states are scrambled via braiding in systems of non-Abelian anyons through the lens of entanglement spectrum statistics. In particular, we focus on the degree of scrambling, defined as the randomness produced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-21 Zhi-Cheng Yang , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Stefanos Kourtis , Claudio Chamon

It has recently been realized that zero modes with projective non-Abelian statistics, generalizing the notion of Majorana bound states, may exist at the interface between a superconductor and a ferromagnet along the edge of a fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Michele Burrello , Bernard van Heck , Emilio Cobanera

The natural existence of crystalline symmetry in real materials manifests the importance of understanding crystalline symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases, especially for interacting systems. In this paper, we systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Jian-Hao Zhang , Shang-Qiang Ning , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

The non-Hermitian skin effect, as a unique feature of non-Hermitian systems, will break the topological energy braiding of the Bloch bands in open boundary systems. Going beyond the Bloch band theory, we unveil the energy braiding of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Yang Li , Xiang Ji , Yuanping Chen , Xiaohong Yan , Xiaosen Yang

We describe a diagrammatic technique for non-Hermitian fermionic systems that is applicable in the steady state, and which allows addressing correlations effects by systematic expansion. Applying this method to exceptional points or rings,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Johan Carlström

We report on a numerical experiment in which we use time-dependent potentials to braid non-abelian quasiparticles. We consider lattice bosons in a uniform magnetic field within the fractional quantum Hall regime, where $\nu$, the ratio of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Eliot Kapit , Paul Ginsparg , Erich Mueller

The construction and classification of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems have been intensively studied in the past few years. Very recently, a complete classification and construction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Jian-Hao Zhang , Qing-Rui Wang , Shuo Yang , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Although a large class of topological materials have uniformly been identified using symmetry properties of wave functions, the past two years have seen the rise of multi-gap topologies beyond this paradigm. Given recent reports of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-20 Haedong Park , Stephan Wong , Adrien Bouhon , Robert-Jan Slager , Sang Soon Oh

We consider a spin-1/2 fermionic ladder with spin-orbit coupling and a perpendicular magnetic field, which shares important similarities with topological superconducting wires. We fully characterize the symmetry-protected topological phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-02 Leonardo Mazza , Monika Aidelsburger , Hong-Hao Tu , Nathan Goldman , Michele Burrello

Weyl semimetals in three-dimensional crystals provide the paradigm example of topologically protected band nodes. It is usually taken for granted that a pair of colliding Weyl points annihilate whenever they carry opposite chiral charge. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Adrien Bouhon , QuanSheng Wu , Robert-Jan Slager , Hongming Weng , Oleg V. Yazyev , Tomáš Bzdušek

We use the pullback trivialization technique to systematically construct gapped interfaces and anomalous boundaries for fermionic symmetry-protected topological (FSPT) states by extending their symmetry group $G_f = \mathbb{Z}_2^f…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 Kevin Loo , Qing-Rui Wang