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Topologically engineered optical materials support robust light transport. Herein, the investigated non-Hermitian lattice is trimerized and inhomogeneously coupled using uniform intracell coupling. The topological properties of the coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 L. Jin

Non-Hermitian systems as theoretical models of open or dissipative systems exhibit rich novel physical properties and fundamental issues in condensed matter physics.We propose a generalized local-global correspondence between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Annan Fan , Shi-Dong Liang

Breaking Hermiticity in topological systems gives rise to intriguing phenomena, such as the exceptional topology and the non-Hermitian skin effect. In this work, we study a non-Hermitian topological crystalline insulator sitting on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Qiu-Yue Xu , Feng Liu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Dong-Hui Xu

The fundamental concept underlying topological phenomena posits the geometric phase associated with eigenstates. In contrast to this prevailing notion, theoretical studies on time-varying Hamiltonians allow for a new type of topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Pengfei Lu , Yang Liu , Qifeng Lao , Teng Liu , Xinxin Rao , Ji Bian , Hao Wu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

There has been much recent interest and progress on topological structures of the non-Hermitian Bloch bands. Here, we study the topological structures of non-Bloch bands of non-Hermitian multiband quantum systems under open boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Yongxu Fu , Yi Zhang

The energy bands of non-Hermitian systems exhibit nontrivial topological features that arise from the complex nature of the energy spectrum. Under periodic boundary conditions (PBC), the energy spectrum describes rather generally closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Higher-order topological phases are characterized by protected states localized at the corners or hinges of the system. By applying time-periodic quenches to a two-dimensional lattice with balanced gain and loss, we obtain a rich variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

Higher-order topological states that possess gapped bulk energy bands and exotic topologically protected boundary states with at least two dimension lower than the bulk have significantly opened a new perspective for understanding of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-31 Zhoutao Lei , Linhu Li , Yuangang Deng

We focus on a scenario of non-Hermitian bulk--boundary correspondence that uses a topological invariant defined in a bulk geometry under a modified periodic boundary condition. Although this has succeeded in describing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Chihiro Ishii , Yositake Takane

Recently, higher-order topological insulators have been attracting extensive interest. Unlike the conventional topological insulators that demand bulk gap closings at transition points, the higher-order band topology can be changed without…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Juan Du , Tianzi Li , Xiying Fan , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

Strong disorder drives conventional Hermitian systems into Anderson insulating states, suppressing all topological phases. Here, we unveil symmetry-protected, anomalous topological phases in the strong disorder limit of a non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mina Ren , Xi Shi , Haitao Jiang , Feng Liu , Hong Chen , Yong Sun

We study non-interacting electrons in disordered materials which exhibit a spectral gap, in each of the ten Altland--Zirnbauer symmetry classes, in all space dimensions. We define an appropriate space of Hamiltonians and a topology on it so…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jui-Hui Chung , Jacob Shapiro

Certain band insulators allow for the adiabatic pumping of quantized charge or spin for special time-dependences of the Hamiltonian. These "topological pumps" are closely related to two dimensional topological insulating phases of matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Dganit Meidan , Tobias Micklitz , Piet W. Brouwer

Compared with conventional topological insulator that carries topological state at its boundaries, the higher-order topological insulator exhibits lower-dimensional gapless boundary states at its corners and hinges. Leveraging the form…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Zhoufei Liu , Pei-Chao Cao , Liujun Xu , Guoqiang Xu , Ying Li , Jiping Huang

Topological insulators and superconductors support extended surface states protected against the otherwise localizing effects of static disorder. Specifically, in the Wigner-Dyson insulators belonging to the symmetry classes A, AI, and AII,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Alexander Altland , Piet W. Brouwer , Johannes Dieplinger , Matthew S. Foster , Mateo Moreno-Gonzalez , Luka Trifunovic

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Being Wannierizable is not the end of the story for topological insulators. We introduce a family of topological insulators that would be considered trivial in the paradigm set by the tenfold way, topological quantum chemistry, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Aleksandra Nelson , Titus Neupert , Tomáš Bzdušek , A. Alexandradinata

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

Non-Bloch topological invariants preserve the bulk-boundary correspondence in non-Hermitian topological systems, and are a key concept in the contemporary study of non-Hermitian topology. Here we report the dynamic detection of non-Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Kunkun Wang , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Yiwen Han , Wei Yi , Peng Xue