English
Related papers

Related papers: On Choosing a Physically Meaningful Topological Cl…

200 papers

We classify topological defects in non-Hermitian systems with point gap, real gap and imaginary gap for all the Bernard-LeClair classes or generalized Bernard-LeClair classes in all dimensions. The defect Hamiltonian $H(\bf{k}, {\bf r})$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Chun-Hui Liu , 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

Recent years have seen a growing interest in topological phases beyond the standard paradigm of gapped, isolated systems. One recent direction is to explore topological features in non-hermitian systems that are commonly used as effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Carlos Ortega-Taberner , Maria Hermanns

Non-Hermitian band theory distinguishes between line gaps and point gaps. While point gaps can give rise to intrinsic non-Hermitian band topology without Hermitian counterparts, line-gapped systems can always be adiabatically deformed to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Frank Schindler , Kaiyuan Gu , Biao Lian , Kohei Kawabata

We revisit the problem of classifying topological band structures in non-Hermitian systems. Recently, a solution has been proposed, which is based on redefining the notion of energy band gap in two different ways, leading to the so-called…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Charles C. Wojcik , Xiao-Qi Sun , Tomáš Bzdušek , Shanhui Fan

Non-Hermitian matrices are ubiquitous in the description of nature ranging from classical dissipative systems, including optical, electrical, and mechanical metamaterials, to scattering of waves and open quantum many-body systems. Seminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , J. Lukas K. König , Lukas Rødland , Marcus Stålhammar , Emil J. Bergholtz

Topological holography is a conjectured correspondence between the symmetry charges and defects of a $D$-dimensional system with the anyons in a $(D+1)$-dimensional topological order: the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-01 Rui Wen , Weicheng Ye , Andrew C. Potter

We proposed a framework for the topological classification of non-Hermitian systems. Different from previous $K$-theoretical approaches, our approach is a homotopy classification, which enables us to see more topological invariants.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Zhi Li , Roger S. K. Mong

We utilize the topological holographic framework to characterize and gain insights into the nature of quantum critical points and gapless phases in fermionic quantum systems. Topological holography is a general framework that describes the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Sheng-Jie Huang

Short-ranged and line-gapped non-hermitian Hamiltonians have strong topological invariants given by an index of an associated Fredholm operator. It is shown how these invariants can be accessed via the signature of a suitable spectral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Alexander Cerjan , Lars Koekenbier , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Non-Hermitian theory is a theoretical framework that excels at describing open systems. It offers a powerful tool in the characterization of both the intrinsic degrees of freedom (DOFs) of a system and the interactions with the external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Kun Ding , Chen Fang , Guancong Ma

Non-Hermiticity appears ubiquitously in various open classical and quantum systems and enriches classification of topological phases. However, the role of nonsymmorphic symmetry, crystalline symmetry accompanying fractional lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Daichi Nakamura , Yutaro Tanaka , Ken Shiozaki , Kohei Kawabata

The current understanding of the role of topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems and its far-reaching physical consequences observable in a range of dissipative settings are reviewed. In particular, how the paramount and genuinely NH concept…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Emil J. Bergholtz , Jan Carl Budich , Flore K. Kunst

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into fundamental science has opened new possibilities to address long-standing scientific challenges rooted in mathematical limitations. For example, topological invariants are used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yang Long , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit richer topological properties compared to their Hermitian counterparts. It is well known that non-Hermitian systems have been classified based on either the symmetry relations for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Zhiyu Jiang , Ryo Okamoto , Hideaki Obuse

Topological insulators are solid state systems of independent electrons for which the Fermi level lies in a mobility gap, but the Fermi projection is nevertheless topologically non-trivial, namely it cannot be deformed into that of a normal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Quasi-Hermitian quantum systems, including $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric ones, can be mapped to equivalent Hermitian systems via a similarity transformation that redefines the inner product with a positive-definite metric operator. Although an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Ming-Zhang Wang , Xu-Yang Hou , Hao Guo

This work outlines a consistent method of identifying subsystems in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, independent of the underlying inner-product structure. Such Hilbert spaces arise in $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Himanshu Badhani , Sibasish Ghosh

We develop the topological band theory for systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose energy spectra are generally complex. After generalizing the notion of gapped band structures to the non-Hermitian case, we classify "gapped"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Huitao Shen , Bo Zhen , Liang Fu

Non-Hermitian physics predicts open quantum system dynamics with unique topological features such as exceptional points and the non-Hermitian skin effect. We show that this new paradigm of topological systems can serve as probes for bulk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Saubhik Sarkar , Francesco Ciccarello , Angelo Carollo , Abolfazl Bayat
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›