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Hydrodynamics is shown to induce non-Hermitian topological phenomena in ordinary, passive soft matter. This is demonstrated for the first time by subjecting a 2D elastic lattice to a low-Reynolds viscous flow. The interplay of hydrodynamics…

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Dirac-Weyl fermions are massless relativistic particles with a well-defined helicity which arise in the context of high-energy physics. Here we propose a quantum simulation of these paradigmatic fermions using multicomponent ultracold atoms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-04 Z. Lan , N. Goldman , A. Bermudez , W. Lu , P. Ohberg

We develop relativistic wave equations in the framework of the new non-hermitian ${\cal PT}$ quantum mechanics. The familiar Hermitian Dirac equation emerges as an exact result of imposing the Dirac algebra, the criteria of ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Harsh Mathur

3D Dirac semimetals are an emerging class of materials that possess topological electronic states with a Dirac dispersion in their bulk. In nodal-line Dirac semimetals, the conductance and valence bands connect along a closed path in…

Critical states in quasiperiodic systems defy the conventional dichotomy between extended and localized states. In this work, we demonstrate that non-Hermiticity fundamentally reshapes this paradigm by giving rise to an exactly solvable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Zhangyuan Chen , Muhammad Idrees , Ying Yang , Xianqi Tong , Xiaosen Yang

Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals are 3D analogs of graphene in which crystalline symmetry protects the nodes against gap formation [1-3]. Na$_3$Bi and Cd$_3$As$_2$ were predicted to be Dirac semimetals [4,5], and recently confirmed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-19 Tian Liang , Quinn Gibson , Mazhar N. Ali , Minhao Liu , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

A flexible control of wave scattering in complex media is of relevance in different areas of classical and quantum physics. Recently, a great interest has been devoted to scattering engineering in non-Hermitian systems, with the prediction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Stefano Longhi , Ermanno Pinotti

We consider Dirac quasi-particles, as realized with cold atoms loaded in a honeycomb lattice or in a $\pi$-flux square lattice, in the presence of a weak correlated disorder such that the disorder fluctuations do not couple the two Dirac…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-04-30 Kean Loon Lee , Benoît Grémaud , Christian Miniatura

We study the spectral properties of the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model as function of the exchange coupling, the band filling, and the quasimomentum in the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phase. Using the density-matrix renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Smerat , I. P. McCulloch , H. Schoeller , U. Schollwöck

Valley-based electronics, known as valleytronics, is one of the keys to break through to a new stage of electronics. The valley degree of freedom is ubiquitous in the honeycomb lattice system. The honeycomb lattice structure of silicon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Motohiko Ezawa

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

We study a non-interacting quantum particle, moving on a one-dimensional lattice, which is subjected to repetitive measurements. We investigate the consequence when such motion is interrupted and restarted from the same initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Ranjan Modak , S. Aravinda

We construct normalizable, semi-classical states for the previously proposed model of quantum gravity which is formulated as a spectral triple over holonomy loops. The semi-classical limit of the spectral triple gives the Dirac Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup , Mario Paschke , Ryszard Nest

We establish non-Hermitian topological mechanics in one dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) lattices consisting of mass points connected by meta-beams that lead to odd elasticity. Extended from the "non-Hermitian skin effect" in 1D…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Di Zhou , Junyi Zhang

We study a non-Hermitian variant of the (2+1)-dimensional Dirac wave equation, which hosts a real energy spectrum with pairwise-orthogonal eigenstates. In the spatially uniform case, the Hamiltonian's non-Hermitian symmetries allow its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Yun Yong Terh , Rimi Banerjee , Haoran Xue , Y. D. Chong

Quasiperiodic behaviour is known to occur in systems with enforced quasiperiodicity or randomness, in either the lattice structure or the potential, as well as in periodically driven systems. Here, we present instead a setting where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Cecilie Glittum , Antonio Štrkalj , Claudio Castelnovo

Non-Hermitian photonic lattices combine the peculiar consequences of energy non-conservation with the physics of bandstructures, giving rise to a variety of exotic properties not found in conventional materials or photonic metamaterials. In…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-17 Qiang Wang , Y. D. Chong

Two-dimensional Dirac materials with a flat band have been demonstrated to possess a plethora of unusual electronic properties, but the optical properties of these materials are less studied. Utilizing $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Chen-Di Han , Ying-Cheng Lai

Discrete fermionic and bosonic models for hyperbolic lattices have attracted significant attention across a range of fields since the experimental realization of hyperbolic lattices in metamaterial platforms, sparking the development of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Ana Djordjević , Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić , Vladimir Juričić

In non-Hermitian quasicrystals, mobility edges (ME) separating localized and extended states in complex energy plane can arise as a result of non-Hermitian terms in the Hamiltonian. Such ME are of topological nature, i.e. the energies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi