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It was known that for non-Hermitian topological systems due to the non-Hermitian skin effect, the bulk-edge correspondence is broken down. In this paper, by using one-dimensional Su-SchriefferHeeger model and two-dimensional (deformed)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Can Wang , Xiao-Ran Wang , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou

Non-Hermitian Chern insulators differ from their Hermitian cousins in one key aspect: their edge spectra are incredibly rich and confounding. For example, even in the simple case where the bulk spectrum consists of two bands with Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 James Bartlett , Erhai Zhao

Topological phases of Hermitian systems are known to exhibit intriguing properties such as the presence of robust boundary states and the famed bulk-boundary correspondence. These features can change drastically for their non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Flore K. Kunst , Vatsal Dwivedi

We analyze chiral topological edge modes in a non-Hermitian variant of the 2D Dirac equation. Such modes appear at interfaces between media with different "masses" and/or signs of the "non-Hermitian charge". The existence of these edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Daniel Leykam , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Chunli Huang , Y. D. Chong , Franco Nori

The recent topological classification of non-Hermitian `Hamiltonians' is usually interpreted in terms of pure quantum states that decay or grow with time. However, many-body systems with loss and gain are typically better described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Alexandre Chaduteau , Derek K. K. Lee , Frank Schindler

The energy bands of non-Hermitian systems exhibit nontrivial topological features that arise from the complex nature of the energy spectrum. Under periodic boundary conditions (PBC), the energy spectrum describes rather generally closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

Topological superconductors are believed to host exotic quasiparticle excitations known as Majorana zero-modes, with much of the evidence based on BCS mean-field theory. The direct application of mean-field arguments is tenuous in finite,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaden Thomas-Markarian , Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

We study the Majorana bound states arising in quasi-one-dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane Zeeman magnetic field. Using two different methods, first, the numerical diagonalization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Julien Despres , Ipsita Mandal , Cristina Bena

We address the issue whether it is possible to generate Majorana bound states at the magnetic-superconducting interface in two-dimensional topological insulators with hidden Dirac points in the spectrum. In this case, the Dirac point of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Ferdinand Schulz , Kirill Plekhanov , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

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

A single unit cell contains all the information about the bulk system, including the topological feature. The topological invariant can be extracted from a finite system, which consists of several unit cells under certain environment, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Ci. Li , Liang. Jin , Zhi. Song

Bulk-boundary correspondence, connecting the bulk topology and the edge states, is an essential principle of the topological phases. However, the bulk-boundary correspondence is broken down in general non-Hermitian systems. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Yang Cao , Yang Li , Xiaosen Yang

For decades, the topological phenomena in quantum systems have always been catching our attention. Recently, there are many interests on the systems where topologically protected edge states exist, even in the presence of non-Hermiticity.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-15 Shujie Cheng , Gao Xianlong

We introduce the non-Hermitian mosaic Maryland model, where a discrete modulation period and a non-Hermitian phase are incorporated into the potential, rendering the originally exactly solvable system generally non-integrable. This model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-27 Zhenning Wang , Ni Lu , Dan Liu , Xiaosen Yang , Xianqi Tong

Robust edge states and non-Abelian excitations are the trademark of topological states of matter, with promising applications such as "topologically protected" quantum memory and computing. While so far topological phases have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Diehl , E. Rico , M. A. Baranov , P. Zoller

We generalize the Majorana stellar representation of spin-$s$ pure states to mixed states, and in general to any hermitian operator, defining a bijective correspondence between three spaces: the spin density-matrices, a projective space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 E. Serrano-Ensástiga , D. Braun

The bulk-boundary correspondence establishes a connection between the bulk topological index of an insulator or superconductor, and the number of topologically protected edge bands or states. For topological superconductors in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Vardan Kaladzhyan , Clément Dutreix , Cristina Bena

Non-Hermitian systems can exhibit extraordinary sensitivity to boundary conditions. Given that topological boundary modes and non-Hermitian skin effects can either coexist or individually appear in non-Hermitian systems, it is of great…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Xintong Zhang , Jing Li

The review is aimed at highlighting the aspects of topological superconductivity in the absence of spin-orbit interaction in two-dimensional systems with long-range non-collinear spin ordering or magnetic skyrmions. Another purpose is to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-22 A. O. Zlotnikov , M. S. Shustin , A. D. Fedoseev

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit a distinctive phenomenon known as the non-Hermitian skin effect, where an extensive number of eigenstates become localized at the boundaries of a lattice with open boundaries. While the spectral winding number…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-17 Wuping Yang , H. Huang