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A hallmark of topological band theory in periodic media is that bulk properties are not affected by boundary conditions. Remarkably, in certain non-Hermitian lattices the bulk properties are largely affected by boundaries, leading to such…

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Robin (or mixed) boundary conditions in quantum mechanics have received considerable attention in the last two decades, in particular, for applications to nanoscale systems. However, their utility has remained obscure to the larger physics…

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We use the Floquet-Bloch transform to reduce variational formulations of surface scattering problems for the Helmholtz equation from periodic and locally perturbed periodic surfaces to equivalent variational problems formulated on bounded…

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When described through a plane-wave basis set, the inclusion of exact nonlocal exchange in hybrid functionals gives rise to a singularity, which slows down the convergence with the density of sampled $k$ points in reciprocal space. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-10 Peter Broqvist , Audrius Alkauskas , Alfredo Pasquarello

We define normalized versions of Berkovich spaces over a trivially valued field $k$, obtained as quotients by the action of $\mathbb R_{>0}$ defined by rescaling semivaluations. We associate such a normalized space to any special formal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Lorenzo Fantini

We study a non-Hermitian extension of the Creutz ladder with generic non-reciprocal hopping. By mapping the ladder onto two decoupled non-Hermitian Su--Schrieffer--Heeger (SSH) chains, we uncover a rich structure in parameter space under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Debashish Dutta , Sayan Choudhury

Using the framework of Colombeau algebras of generalized functions, we prove the existence and uniqueness results for global generalized solvability of semilinear hyperbolic systems with nonlinear nonlocal boundary conditions. We admit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Irina Kmit

We show that spectral form factors of unconventional gapped superconductors have singularities occurring periodically in time. These are the superconductors whose gap function vanishes somewhere in momentum space (Brillouin zone) but whose…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-22 Sankalp Gaur , Victor Gurarie

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit fascinating characteristics such as non-Hermitian topological phenomena and skin effect, yet their studies are limited by the intrinsic difficulties associated with their eigenvalue problems, especially…

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High diffusion-sensitizing magnetic field gradients have been more and more often applied nowadays to achieve a better characterization of the microstructure. As the resulting spin-echo signal significantly deviates from the conventional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-14 N. Moutal , D. S. Grebenkov

Skin effect, where macroscopically many bulk states are aggregated towards the system boundary, is one of the most important and distinguishing phenomena in non-Hermitian quantum systems. We discuss a new aspect of this effect whereby,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Ming Lu , Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Marcel Franz

We report the first direct observation of Brillouin-like propagation modes in a dissipative periodic optical lattice. This has been done by observing, in both theoretical and experimental work, a resonant behaviour of the spatial diffusion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Sanchez-Palencia , F. -R. Carminati , M. Schiavoni , F. Renzoni , G. Grynberg

While the Bloch spectrum of translationally invariant noninteracting lattice models is trivially obtained by a Fourier transformation, diagonalizing the same problem in the presence of open boundary conditions is typically only possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Flore K. Kunst , Guido van Miert , Emil J. Bergholtz

We study longitudinal and transverse wave propagation in beams with elastic properties that are periodically varying in space and time. Spatiotemporal modulation of the elastic properties breaks mechanical reciprocity and induces one-way…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-21 Giuseppe Trainiti , Massimo Ruzzene

In quantum materials, basic observables such as spectral functions and susceptibilities are determined by Green's functions and their complex quasiparticle spectrum rather than by bare electrons. Even in closed many-body systems, this makes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Carl Lehmann , Tommaso Micallo , Jan Carl Budich

Rarely noted paradoxes and their resolution lead to non-Hermitian behaviors due to boundary terms, even for closed systems and with real potentials. The role played by these non-Hermiticities on quantum mechanical uncertainty relations is…

General Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 K. Moulopoulos

This work unveils how geometric features of two-band non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can completely classify the topology of their eigenstates and energy manifolds. Our approach generalizes the Bloch sphere visualization of Hermitian systems to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Jiangbin Gong

The non-Hermitian bulk-boundary correspondence features an interplay between the non-Hermitian skin effect and anomalous boundary-mode behavior. Whereas the skin effect is known to manifest itself in quantum dynamics in the form of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Fan Yang , Maria Zelenayova , Paolo Molignini , Emil J. Bergholtz

Topological characterization of non-Hermitian band structures demands more than a straightforward generalization of the Hermitian cases. Even for one-dimensional tight-binding models with nonreciprocal hopping, the appearance of point gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 James Bartlett , Haiping Hu , Erhai Zhao

In this paper we start studying spectral properties of the Fourier-Stieltjes algebras, largely following Zafran's work on the algebra of measures on a locally compact group. We show that for a large class of discrete groups the Wiener-Pitt…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Przemysław Ohrysko , Mateusz Wasilewski