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The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian describes the effective dynamics of a system coupled to a continuously measured bath, and can exhibit anti-unitary symmetries that give rise to exceptional points and broken phases with complex eigenvalues,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sejal Ahuja , Keshav Das Agarwal , Aditi Sen De

Recent explorations of quantized solitons transport in optical waveguides have thrust nonlinear topological pumping into the spotlight. In this work, we introduce a unified topological invariant applicable across both weakly and strongly…

Quantized dynamics is essential for natural processes and technological applications alike. The work of Thouless on quantized particle transport in slowly varying potentials (Thouless pumping) has played a key role in understanding that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Zlata Fedorova , Haixin Qiu , Stefan Linden , Johann Kroha

Nonlinear Thouless pumps for bosons exhibit quantized pumping via soliton motion, despite the lack of a meaningful notion of filled bands. However, the theoretical underpinning of this quantization, as well as its relationship to the Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Marius Jürgensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

One of the most pronounced non-Hermitian phenomena is the non-Hermitian skin effect, which refers to the exponential localization of bulk eigenstates near the boundaries of non-Hermitian systems. Whereas non-Bloch band theory has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Yu-Min Hu , Yin-Quan Huang , Wen-Tan Xue , Zhong Wang

We formulate quantum geometry for non-Hermitian systems under open boundary conditions. By defining quantum-geometric quantities in both real-space and non-Bloch representations, we establish a unified framework beyond conventional Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Junsong Sun , Huaiming Guo , Bohm-Jung Yang

Quantum Hall systems host chiral edge states extending along the one-dimensional boundary of any two-dimensional sample. In solid state materials, the edge states serve as perfectly robust transport channels that produce a quantised Hall…

The discovery of topological states of matter has profoundly augmented our understanding of phase transitions in physical systems. Instead of local order parameters, topological phases are described by global topological invariants and are…

Topology plays a central role in nearly all disciplines of physics, yet its applications have so far been restricted to closed, lossless systems in thermodynamic equilibrium. Given that many physical systems are open and may include gain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Timothy M. Philip , Matthew J. Gilbert

We analyze a tight binding model of two coupled chains with strongly interacting fermions. Depending on the parameter $w$, the many body lowest energy band consists of either single particles or bound pairs. A topological quantum pump can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Bart van Voorden , Kareljan Schoutens

In this letter we study the Hall conductance for a non-Hermitian Chern insulator and quantitatively describe how the Hall conductance deviates from a quantized value. We show the effects of the non-Hermitian terms on the Hall conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Chen , Hui Zhai

The synergy between non-Hermitian concepts and topological ideas have led to very fruitful activity in the recent years. Their interplay has resulted in a wide variety of new non-Hermitian topological phenomena being discovered. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Ayan Banerjee , Ronika Sarkar , Soumi Dey , Awadhesh Narayan

Non-Hermitian topological systems have attracted a lot of research activities in recent times, both theoretically and experimentally, due to their unique physical properties and association with open quantum systems. We show that modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Saubhik Sarkar , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Abolfazl Bayat

It is well known that quantized topological charge pumping takes place in the half filled Rice-Mele chain performing a closed cycle in parameter space. We extend previous studies to the case of charge and heat transport at arbitrary filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 P. Roura-Bas , A. A. Aligia

Quantized particle or spin transport upon cyclic parameter variations, determined by topological invariants, is a key signature of Chern insulators in the ground state. While measurable many-body observables exist that preserve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Lukas Wawer , Razmik Unanyan , Michael Fleischhauer

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems, associated with a point gap on the complex energy plane, has attracted great theoretical and experimental interest. Much less is studied on the so-called second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are relevant to describe the features of a broad class of physical phenomena, ranging from photonics and atomic and molecular systems to nuclear physics and mesoscopic electronic systems. An important question…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ygor Pará , Giandomenico Palumbo , Tommaso Macrì

We study topological charge pumping in one-dimensional quasiperiodic systems. Since these systems lack periodicity, we cannot use the conventional approach based on the topological Chern number defined in the momentum space. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Mao Yoshii , Sota Kitamura , Takahiro Morimoto

The topology of non-Hermitian systems is drastically shaped by the non-Hermitian skin effect, which leads to the generalized bulk-boundary correspondence and non-Bloch band theory. The essential part in formulations of bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Fei Song , Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

We study the quench dynamics of non-Hermitian topological models with non-Hermitian skin effects. Adopting the non-Bloch band theory and projecting quench dynamics onto the generalized Brillouin zone, we find that emergent topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-09 Tianyu Li , Jia-Zheng Sun , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Wei Yi