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We construct a two-dimensional, discrete-time quantum walk exhibiting non-Hermitian skin effects under open-boundary conditions. As a confirmation of the non-Hermitian bulk-boundary correspondence, we show that the emergence of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tianyu Li , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Wei Yi

We develop a general theory for two-dimensional (2D) anomalous Floquet higher-order topological superconductors (AFHOTSC), which are dynamical Majorana-carrying phases of matter with no static counterpart. Despite the triviality of its bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-13 DinhDuy Vu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Sankar Das Sarma

We investigate the non-equilibrium topology of a periodically driven, dissipative Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain using the ensemble geometric phase (EGP) $\phi_{\mathrm{EGP}}$-a generalisation of the Zak phase to open quantum systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Görkem D. Dinc , Alexander Schnell , Andy M. Martin

Recently, anomalous Floquet topological phases without static counterparts have been observed in different systems, where periodically driven models are realized to support a winding number of 1 and a pair of edge modes in each quasienergy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-20 Kaiye Shi , Xiang Zhang , Wei Zhang

Being motivated by intriguing phenomena such as the breakdown of conventional bulk boundary correspondence and emergence of skin modes in the context of non-Hermitian (NH) topological insulators, we here propose a NH second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag

Quantum wires subject to the combined action of spin-orbit and Zeeman coupling in the presence of \emph{s}-wave pairing potentials (superconducting proximity effect in semiconductors or superfluidity in cold atoms) are one of the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Andres A. Reynoso , Diego Frustaglia

The interplay between band topology and material nonlinearity gives rise to a variety of novel phenomena, such as topological solitons and nonlinearity-induced topological phase transitions. However, most previous studies fall within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Junyao Wu , Rui-Chang Shen , Li Zhang , Fujia Chen , Bingbing Wang , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang , Haoran Xue

Floquet engineering of topological phase transitions driven by a high-frequency time-periodic field is a promising approach to realizing new topological phases of matter distinct from static states. Here, we theoretically investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Kok Wai Lee , Mateo Jalen Andrew Calderon , Xiang-Long Yu , Ching Hua Lee , Yee Sin Ang , Pei-Hao Fu

Time-periodic driving in the form of coherent radiation provides powerful tool for the manipulation of topological materials or synthetic quantum matter. In this paper we propose a scheme to realize non-Hermitian semimetals exhibiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Peng He , Ze-Hao Huang

Higher order topology, in the form of the emergence of corner modes, is observed in two dimensions when crystalline symmetries are superposed on the Altland-Zirnbauer classification of topological insulators. It occurs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Koustav Roy , Latu Kalita , B. Tanatar , Saurabh Basu

Non-Hermitian systems can exhibit extraordinary sensitivity to boundary conditions. Given that topological boundary modes and non-Hermitian skin effects can either coexist or individually appear in non-Hermitian systems, it is of great…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Xintong Zhang , Jing Li

We derive the response of non-Hermitian topological phases with intrinsic point gap topology to localized magnetic flux insertions. In two spatial dimensions, we identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for a flux skin effect that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 M. Michael Denner , Frank Schindler

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model of polyacetylene is a paradigmatic Hamiltonian exhibiting non-trivial edge states. By using Floquet theory we study how the spectrum of this one-dimensional topological insulator is affected by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 V. Dal Lago , M. Atala , L. E. F. Foa Torres

In Hermitian topological systems, the bulk-boundary correspondence strictly constraints boundary transport to values determined by the topological properties of the bulk. We demonstrate that this constraint can be lifted in non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Bastian Höckendorf , Andreas Alvermann , Holger Fehske

Achieving topologically-protected robust transport in optical systems has recently been of great interest. Most topological photonic structures can be understood by solving the eigenvalue problem of Maxwell's equations for a static linear…

The non-Hermitian skin effect under open boundary conditions is widely believed to originate from the intrinsic spectral topology under periodic boundary conditions. If the eigenspectra under periodic boundary conditions have no spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Chun-Hui Liu , Haiping Hu , Shu Chen , Xiong-Jun Liu

The classification of point gap topology in all local non-Hermitian symmetry classes has been recently established. However, many entries in the resulting periodic table have only been discussed in a formal setting and still lack a physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 M. Michael Denner , Titus Neupert , Frank Schindler

We demonstrate that crystal defects can act as a probe of intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. In particular, in point-gapped systems with periodic boundary conditions, a pair of dislocations may induce a non-Hermitian skin effect, where an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Frank Schindler , Abhinav Prem

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit richer topological properties compared to their Hermitian counterparts. It is well known that non-Hermitian systems have been classified based on either the symmetry relations for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Zhiyu Jiang , Ryo Okamoto , Hideaki Obuse

Recently, many novel and exotic phases have been proposed by considering the role of topology in non-Hermitian systems, and their emergent properties are of wide current interest. In this work we propose the non-Hermitian generalization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Ayan Banerjee , Awadhesh Narayan