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Non-Hermitian systems based on parity-time (PT) symmetry reveal rich physics beyond the Hermitian regime. So far, realizations of PT-symmetric systems have been limited to the spatial domain. Here we theoretically and experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-12 Fangxing Zhang , Yaming Feng , Li Ge , Wenjie Wan

Topologically protected edge states have been extensively studied in systems characterized by the topological invariants in band gaps (also called line gaps). In this study, we unveil a whole new form of edge states that transcends the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Hongwei Jia , Jing Hu , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Yixin Xiao , Dongyang Wang , Mudi Wang , Shaojie Ma , Xiaoping Ouyang , Yifei Zhu , C. T. Chan

Zak phase, which refers to the Berry's phase picked up by a particle moving across the Brillouin zone, characterizes the topological properties of Bloch bands in one-dimensional periodic system. Here the Zak phase in dimerized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Weiwei Zhu , Ya-qiong Ding , Jie Ren , Yong Sun , Yunhui Li , Haitao Jiang , Hong Chen

The non-Hermitian skin effect refers to the accumulation of eigenstates near the boundary in open boundary lattice models, which can be systematically characterized using the non-Bloch band theory. Here, we apply the non-Bloch band theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Bo Li , He-Ran Wang , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

Band theory for partially coherent light is introduced by using the formalism of second-order classical coherence theory under paraxial approximation. It is demonstrated that the cross-spectral density function, describing correlations…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-21 P. A. Brandão , J. C. A. Rocha

We study the emergence of non-Hermitian band topology in a two-dimensional metal with planar spiral magnetism due to a momentum-dependent relaxation rate. A sufficiently strong momentum dependence of the relaxation rate leads to exceptional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-17 Johannes Mitscherling , Walter Metzner

We establish sharp global regularity results for solutions to nonhomogeneous, nonunifomrly elliptic systems with zero boundary conditions. In particular, we obtain everywhere Lipschitz continuity under borderline Lorentz assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Cristiana De Filippis , Mirco Piccinini

We propose a novel and systematic recurrence method for the energy spectra of non-Hermitian systems under open boundary conditions based on the recurrence relations of their characteristic polynomials. Our formalism exhibits better accuracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Haoyan Chen , Yi Zhang

This work uncovers a new class of criticality where eigenenergies and eigenstates of non-Hermitian lattice systems jump discontinuously across a critical point in the thermodynamic limit, unlike established Hermitian and non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Sen Mu , Jiangbin Gong

Using a generalised Floquet-Bloch theory, we present a mathematical method to construct eigenvectors for non-Hermitian Toeplitz operators. We extend the method to both banded Toeplitz operators and those with algebraically decaying, fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Yannick de Bruijn , Bryn Davies , Sacha Dupuy , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

This is a note on a recent paper of De Simoi-Kaloshin-Wei \cite{DKW}. We show that using their results combined with wave trace invariants of Guillemin-Melrose and the heat trace invariants of Zayed for the Laplacian with Robin boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Hamid Hezari

Non-Hermitian topological systems have attracted lots of interest due to their unique topological properties when the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) appears. However, the experimental realization of NHSE conventionally requires…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-29 Yaohua Li , Cuicui Lu , Shuang Zhang , Yong-Chun Liu

The effect of non-Hermiticity in band topology has sparked many discussions on non-Hermitian topological physics. It has long been known that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit real energy spectra under the condition of parity-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Yang Long , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

Real-valued band structures are foundational to analyzing periodic systems within the Hermitian description and have been experimentally well-established over recent decades. In contrast, non-Hermitian systems exhibit complex band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jia-Xin Zhong , Jing Lin , Kai Chen , Jing Lu , Kun Ding , Yun Jing

The non-Hermitian skin effect is fundamentally characterized by its sensitivity to boundary conditions, reflected in changes to the energy spectrum and boundary-localized eigenstates. Here, we demonstrate that a spatially inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zheng Wei , Ji-Yao Fan , Kui Cao , Xin-Ran Ma , Cui-Xian Guo , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-Peng Kou

We investigate unique continuation properties and asymptotic behaviour at boundary points for solutions to a class of elliptic equations involving the spectral fractional Laplacian. An extension procedure leads us to study a degenerate or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Alessandra De Luca , Veronica Felli , Giovanni Siclari

It is shown that the mean-field description of a boson-fermion mixture with a dominating fermionic component, loaded in a one-dimensional optical lattice, is reduced to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a periodic potential and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. V. Bludov , V. V. Konotop

In this paper, we explore the spatio-temporal dynamics of spontaneous and stimulated forward Brillouin scattering. This general treatment incorporates the optomechanical coupling produced by boundary-induced radiation pressures (boundary…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-15 Prashanta Kharel , Ryan Behunin , William Renninger , Peter Rakich

Black hole dynamical instabilities have been mostly studied in specific models. We here study the general properties of the complex-frequency modes responsible for such instabilities, guided by the example of a charged scalar field in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-04 Antonin Coutant , Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

We develop the theory of Brillouin light scattering (BLS) from spin wave modes in ferromagnetic nanospheres, within a framework that incorporates the spatial variation of the optical fields within the sphere. Our recent theory of exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Ping Chu , D. L. Mills