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Multicomponent quantum Hall systems with internal degrees of freedom provide a fertile ground for the emergence of exotic quantum liquids. Here we investigate the possibility of non-Abelian topological order in the half-filled fractional…

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We propose a pair of the complex Berry curvatures associated with the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and its Hermitian adjoint to reveal new physics in non-Hermitian systems. We give the complex Berry curvature and Berry phase for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Annan Fan , Guang-Yao Huang , Shi-Dong Liang

Chirality of massless fermions emergent in condensed matter is a key to understand their characteristic behavior as well as to exploit their functionality. However, chiral nature of massless fermions in Dirac semimetals has remained…

We study the quantum anomalous Hall states in the $p$-orbital bands of the honeycomb optical lattices loaded with the single component fermions. Such an effect has not been realized in both condensed matter and cold atom systems yet. By…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-02 Machi Zhang , Hsiang-hsuan Hung , Chuanwei Zhang , Congjun Wu

Band degeneracies, ranging from Hermitian Dirac points to non-Hermitian exceptional points (EPs), play a central role in topological phase transitions. Beyond the topology of individual degeneracies, their mutual interactions yield richer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Weijia Wang , Qicheng Zhang , Kun Zhang , Shuaishuai Tong , Chunyin Qiu

Recent advancement in laser technology has opened the path toward the manipulation of functionalities in quantum materials by intense coherent light. Here, we study three-dimensional (3D) Dirac electrons driven by circularly polarized light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Yoshua Hirai , Naotaka Yoshikawa , Masashi Kawaguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi , Shun Okumura , Takashi Oka , Ryo Shimano

Non-Hermiticity naturally breaks down the adiabaticity and thus leads to non-Abelian behaviors in multi-band systems. Here, we study how non-Abelian properties emerge in non-Hermitian systems by considering a multi-band non-Hermitian model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Ziyu Zhou , Zhi-Cong Xu , Li-Jun Lang

Going beyond the conventional theory, non-Abelian band topology uncovers the global quantum geometry of Bloch bands with multiple gaps and thus unveil a new paradigm for topological physics. However, to date, all non-Abelian topological…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-11 Yuze Hu , Mingyu Tong , Tian Jiang , Jian-hua Jiang , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang

The methods for realizing of non-Abelian gauge potentials have been proposed in many different systems in condensed matter1-5. The simplest realization among them may be in a graphene bilayer obtained by slightly relative rotation between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wei-Jie Zuo , Wen-Tian Li , Lin He

We show that burying of the Dirac point in semiconductor-based quantum-spin-Hall systems can generate unexpected robustness of edge states to magnetic fields. A detailed ${\bf k\cdot p}$ band-structure analysis reveals that InAs/GaSb and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Rafal Skolasinski , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Jason Alicea , Michael Wimmer

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

This paper presents a fast algorithm for computing transport properties of two-dimensional Dirac operators with linear domain walls, which model the macroscopic behavior of the robust and asymmetric transport observed at an interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Guillaume Bal , Jeremy G Hoskins , Zhongjian Wang

Weyl semimetals are a three dimensional gapless topological phase in which bands intersect at arbitrary points -- the Weyl nodes -- in the Brillouin zone. These points carry a topological quantum number known as the \emph{chirality} and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 Pavan Hosur , Xiao-Liang Qi

We investigate the interaction between quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phases hosted by two atomically thin hexagonal lattices and demonstrate the emergence of topological phases with large Chern numbers. Interlayer coupling between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 H. Minh Lam , V. Nam Do

Recent experiments have successfully realized multi-band non-Abelian topological insulators with parity-time symmetry. Their topological classification transcends the conventional ten-fold classification, necessitating the use of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Xiangxu He , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Xiaohan Cui , Lei Zhang , C. T. Chan

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-reciprocal systems have been shown to exhibit various interesting wave phenomena, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect, which causes accumulation of modes at boundaries. Recent research on discrete systems showed that this effect can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Felix Langfeldt , Joe Tan , Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

We consider quantum rings realized in materials where the dynamics of charge carriers mimics that of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electrons. A general theoretical description of the ring-subband structure is developed that applies to a range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 L. Gioia , U. Zülicke , M. Governale , R. Winkler

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferences in the quantum Hall regime can be achieved, provided that electrons are able to transmit between two edge channels in nanostructures. Pioneering approaches include quantum point contacts in 2DEG systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Viet Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Topological materials exhibit edge-localized scattering-free modes protected by their nontrivial bulk topology through the bulk-edge correspondence in Hermitian systems. While topological phenomena have recently been much investigated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Kazuki Sone , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa