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Topological phases like topological insulators or superconductors are fascinating quantum states of matter, featuring novel properties such as emergent chiral edge states or Majorana fermions with non-Abelian braiding statistics. The recent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-30 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , W. Vincent Liu

The advent of non-Hermitian physics has enriched the plethora of topological phases to include phenomena without Hermitian counterparts. Despite being among the most well-studied uniquely non-Hermitian features, the topological properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Marcus Stålhammar , Lukas Rødland

Higher dimensions provide fertile ground for diverse topological phases and their associated localization phenomena, thanks to the rich geometric features of boundaries and defects. In this paper, we investigate non-Hermitian lattices with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Gan Liang , Linhu Li

Non-Hermitian nodal knot metals (NKMs) contains intricate complex-valued energy bands gives rise to knotted exceptional loops and new topological surface states. We introduce a formalism that connects the algebraic, geometric, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Xiao Zhang , Guangjie Li , Yuhan Liu , Tommy Tai , Ronny Thomale , Ching Hua Lee

The perturbation expansion for a general class of many-fermion systems with a non-nested, non-spherical Fermi surface is renormalized to all orders. In the limit as the infrared cutoff is removed, the counterterms converge to a finite limit…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Joel Feldman , Manfred Salmhofer , Eugene Trubowitz

Solids built out of active components can exhibit non-reciprocal elastic coefficients that give rise to non-Hermitian wave phenomena. Here, we investigate non-Hermitian effects present at the boundary of two-dimensional active elastic media…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-16 Colin Scheibner , William T. M. Irvine , Vincenzo Vitelli

Periodically driven non-Hermitian systems can exhibit rich topological band structure and non-Hermitian skin effect, without analogs in their static or Hermitian counterparts. In this work we investigate the exceptional band-touching points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Xizheng Zhang , Jiangbin Gong

We investigate the properties of multidimensional parity-time symmetric periodic systems whose non-Hermitian periodicity is an integer multiple of the underlying Hermitian system's periodicity. This creates a natural set of degeneracies…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-25 Alexander Cerjan , Aaswath Raman , Shanhui Fan

The past decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in topological materials, and a lot of mathematical concepts have been introduced in condensed matter physics. Among them, the bulk-boundary correspondence is the central topic in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

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

In topological semimetals and nodal superconductors, band crossings between occupied and unoccupied bands form stable nodal points/lines/surfaces carrying quantized topological charges. In particular, in centrosymmetric systems, some nodal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Sunje Kim , Dong-Choon Ryu , Bohm-Jung Yang

Following over a decade of intense efforts to enable major progress in spintronics devices and quantum information technology by means of materials in which the electronic structure exhibits non-trivial topological properties, three key…

Topological properties of solid-state materials arise when crossings occur in their band-structure eigenvalues, which give rise to discontinuities in the associated Bloch-function eigenvectors once these are mapped over the whole Brillouin…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-30 Marcello Calvanese Strinati , Giancarlo Calvanese Strinati

In the interstellar medium, as well as in the Universe, large density fluctuations are observed, that obey power-law density distributions and correlation functions. These structures are hierarchical, chaotic, turbulent, but are also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Francoise Combes

Exceptional points (EPs) are spectral defects displayed by non-Hermitian systems in which multiple degenerate eigenvalues share a single eigenvector. This distinctive feature makes systems exhibiting EPs more sensitive to external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Subhajyoti Bid , Henning Schomerus

We study topological properties of one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems without chiral symmetry and give phase diagrams characterized by topological invariants $\nu_E$ and $\nu_{total}$, associated with complex energy vorticity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Hui Jiang , Chao Yang , Shu Chen

Hydrodynamics is shown to induce non-Hermitian topological phenomena in ordinary, passive soft matter. This is demonstrated for the first time by subjecting a 2D elastic lattice to a low-Reynolds viscous flow. The interplay of hydrodynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-11 Tsvi Tlusty

We theoretically investigate the emergence of non-hermitian physics at the heterojunction of a type-II Dirac semi-metal (DSM) and a dirty superconductor (DSC). The non-hermiticity is introduced in the DSM through the self-energy term…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Sayan Jana , Debashree Chowdhury , Arijit Saha

Flat bands play an important role in the study of strongly correlated phenomena, such as ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and fractional quantum Hall effect. Here we report direct experimental evidence for the presence of flat bands,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Lei Feng , Xianqing Lin , Lan Meng , Jia-Cai Nie , Jun Ni , Lin He

Non-symmorphic materials have recently been predicted to exhibit many different exotic features in their electronic structures. These originate from forced band degeneracies caused by the non-symmorphic symmetry, which not only creates the…

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