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We consider a non-Hermitian (NH) analog of a second-order topological insulator, protected by chiral symmetry, in the presence of next-nearest neighbor hopping elements to theoretically investigate the interplay beyond the first nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Arijit Saha , Tanay Nag

Non-Hermiticity can vary the topology of system, induce topological phase transition, and even invalidate the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we show the introducing of non-Hermiticity without affecting the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 K. L. Zhang , H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

Topological phases are greatly enriched by including non-Hermiticity. While most works focus on the topology of the eigenvalues and eigenstates, how topologically nontrivial non-Hermitian systems behave in dynamics has only drawn limited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Tian-Rui Liu , Kai Bai , Jia-Zheng Li , Liang Fang , Duanduan Wan , Meng Xiao

Anderson localization, the absence of diffusive transport in disordered systems, has been manifested as hopping transport in numerous electronic systems, whereas in recently discovered topological insulators it has not been directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jian Liao , Yunbo Ou , Xiao Feng , Shuo Yang , Chaojing Lin , Wenmin Yang , Kehui Wu , Ke He , Xucun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue , Yongqing Li

We investigate non-Hermitian elastic lattices characterized by non-local feedback control interactions. In one-dimensional lattices, we show that the proportional control interactions produce complex dispersion relations characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Matheus I. N. Rosa , Massimo Ruzzene

We report a novel localization phenomenon that emerges in non-Hermitian and quasiperiodic coupled systems, which we dub ``Anderson-Skin (AS) dualism". The emergence of AS dualism is due to the fact that non-Hermitian topological systems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Shan-Zhong Li , Linhu Li , Shi-Liang Zhu , Zhi Li

Non-Hermiticity alters topology with the presence of non-Hermitian factors in topological systems. Most existing non-Hermitian topological systems derive their topological phases from Hermitian components, that is, the gain and loss of the…

Recent breakthrough on topological Anderson insulators revealed the breakdown of the traditional perception that sufficiently strong disorder may induce the appearance of topological protected transport states instead of destruction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Hui Liu , Boyang Xie , Haonan Wang , Wenwei Liu , Zhancheng Li , Hua Cheng , Jianguo Tian , Zhengyou Liu , Shuqi Chen

Our understanding of topological insulators is based on an underlying crystalline lattice where the local electronic degrees of freedom at different sites hybridize with each other in ways that produce nontrivial band topology, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

Non-Hermitian topology provides a research frontier for exploring topological phenomena, revealing novel topological effects and driving the development of emergent materials and platforms. Here, we explore the non-Hermitian Chern insulator…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-13 Yi-Ling Zhang , Li-Wei Wang , Yang Liu , Zhao-Xian Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

Non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems are a fascinating subject to be explored. Using the generalized density matrix renormalisation group method and complementary exact diagonalization, we elucidate the many-body ground states and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-23 Dan-Wei Zhang , Yu-Lian Chen , Guo-Qing Zhang , Li-Jun Lang , Zhi Li , Shi-Liang Zhu

Understanding the interplay of non-Hermiticity and topology is crucial given the intrinsic openness of most natural and engineered systems and it has important ramifications in topological lasers and sensors. Intense efforts have been…

We introduce a one-dimensional lattice model whose hopping amplitudes are modulated for equally spaced sites. Such mosaic lattice exhibits many interesting topological and localization phenomena that do not exist in the regular off-diagonal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-08-31 Qi-Bo Zeng , Rong Lü

Although topological Anderson insulator has been predicted in 2009, the lasting investigations of this disorder established nontrivial state results in only two experimental observations in cold atoms [Science, {\bf 362 },929 (2018)] and in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-27 Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Bing-Lan Wu , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang

We study the nature of the disorder-induced quantized conductance, i.e., the phenomena of topological Anderson insulator (TAI) induced in HgTe/CdTe semiconductor quantum well. The disorder effect in several different systems where anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yanxia Xing , Lei Zhang , Jian Wang

We show that proximity to an altermagnet provides an efficient route to engineering non-Hermitian higher-order topological phases. The proximity-induced altermagnetic order gaps the edge states of a topological insulator, thereby driving a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Xiang Ji , Dengfeng Wang , Tong Zhou , Xiaosen Yang

We study the transport properties of topological insulators, encoding them in a generating functional of gauge and gravitational sources. Much of our focus is on the simple example of a free massive Dirac fermion, the so-called Chern…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-21 Taylor L. Hughes , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar

Non-Hermitian phenomena, such as exceptional points, non-Hermitian skin effects, and topologically nontrivial phases have attracted continued attention. In this work, we reveal how interactions and nonreciprocal hopping could collectively…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-04 Yalun Zhang , Longwen Zhou

We establish the theory of critical transport in amorphous Chern insulators and show that it lies beyond the current paradigm of topological criticality epitomized by the quantum Hall transitions. We consider models of Chern insulators on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Moein N. Ivaki , Isac Sahlberg , Teemu Ojanen

We investigate topological states of two-dimensional (2D) triangular lattices with multi-orbitals. Tight-binding model calculations of a 2D triangular lattice based on $\emph{p}_{x}$ and \emph{p}_{y} orbitals exhibit very interesting doubly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Jiayong Zhang , Bao Zhao , Yang Xue , Tong Zhou , Zhongqin Yang