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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…

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Bulk-boundary correspondence is a fundamental principle in topological physics. In recent years, there have been considerable efforts in extending the idea of geometry and topology to classical stochastic systems far from equilibrium.…

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The bulk-edge correspondence (BEC) is the hallmark of topological systems. In continuous (nonlattice) Hermitian systems with an unbounded wave vector, it was recently shown that the BEC of Chern insulators is modified. How would it be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Orr Rapoport , Moshe Goldstein

Topological theory predicts the necessary conditions for robust dimensional reduction in a host of quantum and classical systems. Models have recently been proposed for stochastic systems which describe many biological and chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-14 Aleksandra Nelson , Evelyn Tang

Capital to topological insulators, the bulk-boundary correspondence ties a topological invariant computed from the bulk (extended) states with those at the boundary, which are hence robust to disorder. Here we put forward an ordering unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , J. E. Barrios Vargas , L. E. F. Foa Torres

The bulk-boundary or bulk-edge correspondence is a principle relating surface confined states to the topological classification of the bulk. By combining non-Hermitian ingredients in terms of gain or loss with media that violate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Penglin Gao , Morten Willatzen , Johan Christensen

Dynamical quantum phase transitions occur when a dynamical free energy becomes non-analytic at critical \emph{times}. They have been shown to exist in, among other systems, topological insulators and superconductors. Additionally in both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-18 Tomasz Masłowski , Jesko Sirker , Nicholas Sedlmayr

Dramatically different from the Hermitian systems, the conventional Bulk-Boundary Correspondence (BBC) is broken in the non-Hermitian systems. In this article, we use edge entanglement entropy to characterize the topological properties of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Weitao Chen , Liangtao Peng , Hantao Lu , Xiancong Lu

The discovery of topological phases in non-Hermitian open classical and quantum systems challenges our current understanding of topological order. Non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique features with no counterparts in topological Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Stefano Longhi

Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians can be used to describe dissipative systems, and are currently intensively studied in the context of topology. A salient difference between Hermitian and NH models is the breakdown of the conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Elisabet Edvardsson , Flore K. Kunst , Tsuneya Yoshida , Emil J. Bergholtz

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

Guided by the many-particle quantum theory of interacting systems, we develop a uniform classification scheme for topological phases of disordered gapped free fermions, encompassing all symmetry classes of the Tenfold Way. We apply this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-13 Alexander Alldridge , Christopher Max , Martin R. Zirnbauer

In the past decades, topological concepts have emerged to classify matter states beyond the Ginzburg-Landau symmetry breaking paradigm. The underlying global invariants are usually characterized by integers, such as Chern or winding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Qinghua Guo , Tianshu Jiang , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Lei Zhang , Zhao-Qing Zhang , Biao Yang , Shuang Zhang , C. T. Chan

Non-Hermitian skin-edge states emerge only at one edge in one-dimensional nonreciprocal chains, where all states are localized at the edge irrespective of eigenvalues. The bulk topological number is the winding number associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Motohiko Ezawa

Topological insulators are noninteracting, gapped fermionic systems which have gapless boundary excitations. They are characterized by topological invariants, which can be written in many different ways, including in terms of Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Andrew M. Essin , Victor Gurarie

The synergy of non-Hermitian and topology renders the bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) even more elusive. Here we study a non-Hermitian Creutz ladder that incorporates both gain-loss and nonreciprocity, and construct multiple BBCs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Xin Li , TongYi Li , JingYu Peng , Yu Wang

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

The topology of non-Hermitian systems is fundamentally changed by the non-Hermitian skin effect, which leads to the generalized bulk-boundary correspondence. Based on the non-Bloch band theory, we get insight into the interplay between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-28 Xaing Ji , Wenchen Ding , Yuanping Chen , Xiaosen Yang

The interface between two materials described by spectrally gapped Hamiltonians is expected to host an in-gap interface mode, whenever a certain topological invariant changes across the interface. We provide a precise statement of this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Guo Chuan Thiang , Hai Zhang

Topological semimetals exhibit protected band crossings in momentum space, accompanied by corresponding surface states. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians introduce geometry-sensitive features that dissolve this bulk-boundary correspondence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Megan Schoenzeit , Chang Shu , Kai Zhang , Kai Sun