English
Related papers

Related papers: Generalised Brillouin Zone for Non-Reciprocal Syst…

200 papers

In this work, we demonstrate the presence of an anomalous non-Hermitian skin effects which decay from both ends of a system consisting of two coupled Hermitian chains induced by non-reciprocal inter-chain cross-coupling. Another intriguing…

We present the viewpoint of treating one-dimensional band structures as Riemann surfaces, linking the unique properties of non-Hermiticity to the geometry and topology of the Riemann surface. Branch cuts and branch points play a significant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Heming Wang , Lingling Fan , Shanhui Fan

We address the breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence observed in non-Hermitian systems, where open and periodic systems can have distinct phase diagrams. The correspondence can be completely restored by considering the Hamiltonian's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Loic Herviou , Jens H. Bardarson , Nicolas Regnault

In recent research, it has been shown that non-Hermitian systems exhibit sensitivity to boundaries, and it is caused by the non-Hermitian skin effect. In this work, we construct the non-Bloch band theory in bosonic Bogoliubov--de Gennes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami

Numerical resolution of exterior Helmholtz problems requires some approach to domain truncation. As an alternative to approximate nonreflecting boundary conditions and invocation of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, we introduce a new, nonlocal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Robert C. Kirby , Andreas Klöckner , Ben Sepanski

The discovery of topological phases has ushered in a new era of condensed matter physics and revealed a variety of natural and artificial materials. They obey the bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC), which guarantees the emergence of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Yu-Peng Ma , Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

Non-Hermitian Chern insulators differ from their Hermitian cousins in one key aspect: their edge spectra are incredibly rich and confounding. For example, even in the simple case where the bulk spectrum consists of two bands with Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 James Bartlett , Erhai Zhao

Bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases relates the non-trivial topological invariant of the bulk to the number of topologically protected boundary states. Recently, a finer classification of SPT…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Sonu Verma , Moon Jip Park

In this paper, we employ the generalized Bloch theory to rediscover the generalized Brillouin zone theory and follow this way to obtain the Green's function of the non-Hermitian system. We focus on a classical chiral model and give the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Changrui Chen , Wenan Guo

When a monochromatic beam of light propagates through a periodic structure with the incident angle satisfying the Bragg condition, its Fourier spatial spectra oscillates between the resonant modes situated on the edges of the Brillouin…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-09 Paulo A. Brandão , Solange B. Cavalcanti

Non-Hermitian singularities are ubiquitous in non-conservative open systems. These singularities are often points of measure zero in the eigenspectrum of the system which make them difficult to access without careful engineering. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Qi Zhong , Mercedeh Khajavikhan , Demetrios Christodoulides , Ramy El-Ganainy

Transfer matrix techniques are used to provide a new proof of Widom's results on the asymptotic spectral theory of finite block Toeplitz matrices. Furthermore, a rigorous treatment of the skin effect, spectral outliers, the generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Lars Koekenbier , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Imaginary gauge transformation (IGT) provides a clear understanding of the non-Hermitian skin effect by transforming the non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with real spectra into Hermitian ones. In this paper, we extend this approach to the complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Yunyao Qi , Jinghui Pi , Yuquan Wu , Heng Lin , Chao Zheng , Gui-Lu Long

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba's spin-orbit interaction and two in-plane potentials superimposed along directions perpendicular to each other. The first of these potentials is assumed to be a general periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-19 S. Smirnov , D. Bercioux , M. Grifoni

The delocalization-localization (DL) transition in non-Hermitian systems exhibits intriguing features distinct from their Hermitian counterparts. In this study, we investigate the DL transition in a generalized non-Hermitian lattice with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-16 Aruna Prasad Acharya , Sanjoy Datta

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are generally sensitive to boundary conditions, and their spectra and wave functions under open boundary conditions are not necessarily predicted by the Bloch band theory for periodic boundary conditions. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Kohei Kawabata , Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

Non-Hermitian systems display remarkable response effects that reflect a variety of distinct spectral scenarios, such as exceptional points where the eigensystem becomes defective. However, present frameworks treat the different scenarios…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Subhajyoti Bid , Henning Schomerus

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions, typically manifesting as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under open boundaries. By bridging the boundaries with a tunable impurity bond, one can access…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Kazuma Saito , Ryo Okugawa , Kazuki Yokomizo , Takami Tohyama , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Topology plays an important role in non-hermitian systems. How to characterize a non-hermitian topological system under open-boundary conditions(OBCs) is a challenging problem. A one-dimensional(1D) topological invariant defined on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 ChunChi Liu , LiuHao Li , Jin An

We present a generalization of Bloch's theorem to finite-range lattice systems of independent fermions, in which translation symmetry is broken only by arbitrary boundary conditions, by providing exact, analytic expressions for all energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Abhijeet Alase , Emilio Cobanera , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola