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The generic nature of band touching points in three-dimensional band structures is at heart of the rich phenomenology, topological stability and novel Fermi arc surface states associated with Weyl semimetals. Here we report on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Johan Carlström , Emil J. Bergholtz

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), with the ability of trapping and manipulating waves within the radiation continuum, have gained significant attention for their potential applications in optics and acoustics. However, challenges arise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Shunda Yin , Zhenyu Wang , Liping Ye , Hailong He , Manzhu Ke , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Zhengyou Liu

We analyze the non-Hermitian Haldane model where the spin-orbit interaction is made non-Hermitian. The Dirac mass becomes complex. We propose to realize it by an $LC$ circuit with operational amplifiers. A topological phase transition is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Motohiko Ezawa

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a localized state of an open structure with access to radiation channels, yet it remains highly confined with, in theory, infinite lifetime and quality factor. There have been many realizations of…

We theoretically discuss the non-Hermitian superfluid phase transition in one-dimensional two-component Fermi gases near the $p$-wave Feshbach resonance accompanied by the two-body loss associated with the dipolar relaxation. For the first…

The non-trivial topology of the three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) dictates the appearance of gapless Dirac surface states. Intriguingly, when a 3D TI is made into a nanowire, a gap opens at the Dirac point due to the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Felix Münning , Oliver Breunig , Henry F. Legg , Stefan Roitsch , Dingxun Fan , Matthias Rößler , Achim Rosch , Yoichi Ando

Topological insulators are transformative quantum solids with immune-to-disorder metallic surface states having Dirac band structure. Ubiquitous charged bulk defects, however, pull the Fermi energy into the bulk bands, denying access to…

Semimetals, in which conduction and valence bands touch but do not form Fermi surfaces, have attracted considerable interest for their anomalous properties starting with the discovery of Dirac matter in graphene and other two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-11 Dennis Wawrzik , David Lindner , Maria Hermanns , Simon Trebst

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

Exceptional points (EPs) in anti-parity-time (APT)-symmetric systems have attracted significant interest. While linear APT-symmetric systems exhibit structural similarities with nonlinear dissipative systems, such as mutually…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Takahiro Uemura , Kenta Takata , Masaya Notomi

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) defy conventional wisdom that assumes a spectral separation between propagating waves, that carry energy away, and spatially localized waves corresponding to discrete frequencies. They can be described…

Topological non-trivial band structures are the core problem in the field of topological materials. In this paper, we investigate the topological band structure in a system with controllable Dirac points from the perspective of wave packet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Dan-Dan Liang , Xin Shen , Zhi Li

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an unusual localized state that is embedded in a continuum of extended states. Here, we present the general condition for BICs to arise from wave equation separability and show that the directionality…

We investigate the emergence of extra Dirac points in the electronic structure of a periodically spaced barrier system, i.e., a superlattice, on single-layer graphene, using a Dirac-type Hamiltonian. Using square barriers allows us to find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

Higher-order exceptional points (EPs), resulting from non-Hermitian degeneracies, have shown greater advantages in sensitive enhancement than second-order EPs (EP2s). Therefore, seeking higher-order EPs in various quantum systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Wei Xiong , Zhuanxia Li , Yiling Song , Jiaojiao Chen , Guoqiang Zhang , Mingfeng Wang

Superconducting and topological states are two distinct quantum states of matter. Superconductors with topologically nontrivial electronic states provide a platform to study the interplay between them. Recent study revealed that a bulk…

The appearance of topological singularities, namely exceptional points (EPs) is an intriguing feature of parameter-dependent open quantum or wave systems. EPs are the special type of nonHermitian degeneracies where two (or more) eigenstates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Sayan Bhattacherjee , Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh

We consider a non-Hermitian superconducting system by coupling a conventional superconductor to a ferromagnet lead and demonstrate the emergence of exceptional points when an external Zeeman field is applied. We discover that, depending on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-28 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The motion of a relativistic particle is linked to its spin by the Dirac equation. Remarkably, electrons in two-dimensional materials can mimic such Dirac particles but must always appear in pairs of opposite spin chirality. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Kenjiro K. Gomes , Wonhee Ko , Warren Mar , Yulin Chen , Zhi-Xun Shen , Hari C. Manoharan

Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians have become an important asset for the effective description of various physical systems that are subject to dissipation. Motivated by recent experimental progress on realizing the NH counterparts of gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Jan Carl Budich , Johan Carlström , Flore K. Kunst , Emil J. Bergholtz