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We establish a connection between an arbitrary Hermitian tight-binding model with chiral (C) symmetry and its non-Hermitian counterpart with chiral-time (CT ) symmetry.We show that such a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is pseudo-Hermitian. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 S. Lin , Z. Song

Amid the growing interest in non-Hermitian quantum systems, non-interacting models have received the most attention. Here, through the stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo method, we investigate non-Hermitian physics in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Shi-Xin Hu , Yongxu Fu , Yi Zhang

Non-Hermitian photonic lattices combine the peculiar consequences of energy non-conservation with the physics of bandstructures, giving rise to a variety of exotic properties not found in conventional materials or photonic metamaterials. In…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-17 Qiang Wang , Y. D. Chong

The pursuit of topological phenomena in non-Hermitian systems has unveiled new physics beyond the conventional Hermitian paradigm, yet their realization in interacting many-body platforms remains a critical challenge. Exploring this…

In this work we investigate non-Hermitian topological phase transitions using real-space edge states as a paradigmatic tool. We focus on the simplest non-Hermitian variant of the Su-Schrieffer-Hegger model, including a parameter that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-15 Rui Aquino , Nei Lopes , Daniel G. Barci

We propose a geometric criterion of the topological phase transition for non-Hermitian systems. We define the length of the boundary of the bulk band in the complex energy plane for non-Hermitian systems. For one-dimensional systems, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Annan Fan , Shi-Dong Liang

Degeneracy points in non-Hermitian systems are of great interest. While a homotopic framework exists for understanding their behavior in the absence of symmetry, it does not apply to symmetry-protected degeneracy points with reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Jia-Zheng Li , Kai Bai , Cheng Guo , Tian-Rui Liu , Liang Fang , Duanduan Wan , Meng Xiao

Non-Abelian gauge fields are versatile tools for synthesizing topological phenomena but have so far been mostly studied in Hermitian systems, where gauge flux has to be defined from a closed loop in order for gauge fields, whether Abelian…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-31 Zehai Pang , Jinbing Hu , Yi Yang

We introduce a novel class of low-dimensional topological tight-binding models that allow for bound states that are fractionally charged fermions and exhibit non-Abelian braiding statistics. The proposed model consists of a double (single)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We study a non-Hermitian non-Abelian topological insulator preserving $PT$ symmetry, where the non-Hermitian term represents nonreciprocal hoppings. As it increases, a spontaneous $PT$ symmetry breaking transition occurs in the perfect-flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Motohiko Ezawa

This article reviews recent developments in the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), particularly on its rich interplay with topology. The review starts off with a pedagogical introduction on the modified bulk-boundary correspondence, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Rijia Lin , Tommy Tai , Mengjie Yang , Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee

Energy bands of non-Hermitian crystalline systems are described in terms of the generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ) having unique features which are absent in Hermitian systems. In this paper, we show that in one-dimensional non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami

We study the properties of the entanglement spectrum in gapped non-interacting non-Hermitian systems, and its relation to the topological properties of the system Hamiltonian. Two different families of entanglement Hamiltonians can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Loïc Herviou , Nicolas Regnault , Jens H. Bardarson

Fractional statistics is one of the most intriguing features of topological phases in 2D. In particular, the so-called non-Abelian statistics plays a crucial role towards realizing universal topological quantum computation. Recently, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-29 Jing-Ren Zhou , Qing-Rui Wang , Chenjie Wang , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the properties of topological models, leading to exotic features such as the non-Hermitian skin effects and non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence that have no counterparts in Hermitian settings. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Kunkun Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Quantum phase transitions are intriguing and fundamental cooperative phenomena in physics. Analyzing a superconducting nanowire with spin-dependent non-Hermitian hopping, we discover a topological quantum phase transition driven by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-02 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

Topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems have attracted a lot of attention due to their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. In this study, we propose a periodically driven non-Hermitian lattice model in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

Topological phases are enriched in non-equilibrium open systems effectively described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. While several properties unique to non-Hermitian topological systems were uncovered, the fundamental role of symmetry in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Kohei Kawabata , Sho Higashikawa , Zongping Gong , Yuto Ashida , Masahito Ueda

Within the expanding field of non-Hermitian physics, non-Hermitian pumping has emerged as a key phenomenon, epitomized through the skin effect via extensive boundary mode accumulation modifying the conventional Bloch picture. Beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Ching Hua Lee , Linhu Li , Ronny Thomale , Jiangbin Gong

Topological phases of matter are classified based on their Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose real-valued dispersions together with orthogonal eigenstates form nontrivial topology. In the recently discovered higher-order topological insulators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 He Gao , Haoran Xue , Zhongming Gu , Tuo Liu , Jie Zhu , Baile Zhang