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A non-Hermitian topological insulator is fundamentally different from conventional topological insulators. The non-Hermitian skin effect arises in a nonreciprocal tight binding lattice with open edges. In this case, not only topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 C. Yuce

There have been considerable efforts devoted to the study of topological phases in certain non-Hermitian systems that possess real eigenfrequencies in the presence of gain and loss. However, it is challenging to experimentally realize such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Shuo Liu , Shaojie Ma , Cheng Yang , Lei Zhang , Wenlong Gao , Yuan Jiang Xiang , Tie Jun Cui , Shuang Zhang

Topology is central to understanding and engineering materials that display robust physical phenomena immune to imperfections. Different topological phases of matter are characterised by topological invariants. In energy-conserving…

We study a quasiperiodic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice with staggered on-site gain-loss. The results reveal that on-site staggered gain-loss can effectively induce non-Hermitian topological gap without introducing imaginary phase. Further…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-21 Zhi-Bin Liang , Shan-Zhong Li , Runze Li , Zhi Li

Two-dimensional topological insulators protected by nonlocal symmetries or with fragile topology usually do not admit robust in-gap edge modes due to the incompatibility between the symmetry and the boundary. Here, we show that in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Kang Yang , Fei Song , Piet W. Brouwer

We propose a geometric criterion of the topological phase transition for non-Hermitian systems. We define the length of the boundary of the bulk band in the complex energy plane for non-Hermitian systems. For one-dimensional systems, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Annan Fan , Shi-Dong Liang

We propose and present a concept of Topological Distance (TD), obtained from the integration of trace distance over the generalized Brillouin zone, in order to characterize the topological transitions of non-Hermitian systems. Specifically,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 ZhaoXiang Fang , Yongxu Fu , Guang-Can Guo , Long Xiong

We study the properties of the entanglement spectrum in gapped non-interacting non-Hermitian systems, and its relation to the topological properties of the system Hamiltonian. Two different families of entanglement Hamiltonians can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Loïc Herviou , Nicolas Regnault , Jens H. Bardarson

Geometric phases play a fundamental role in understanding quantum topology, yet extending the Uhlmann phase to non-Hermitian systems poses significant challenges due to parameter-dependent inner product structures. In this work, we develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Xu-Yang Hou , Xin Wang , Hao Guo

In this paper, we describe some interesting properties of a non-Hermitian Jaynes-Cummings model. For this particular model, it is known that the Hilbert space can be described by infinitely-many two-dimensional invariant (closed) subspaces,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Gargi Das , Aritra Ghosh , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We demonstrate that the non-Hermitian parity-time (PT) symmetric interfaces formed between amplifying and lossy crystals support dissipationless edge states. These PT edge states exhibit gapless spectra in the complex band structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Xiang Ni , Daria Smirnova , Alexander Poddubny , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Alexander B. Khanikaev

The interplay between non-Hermiticity and topology opens an exciting avenue for engineering novel topological matter with unprecedented properties. While previous studies have mainly focused on one-dimensional systems or Chern insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Junpeng Hou , Ya-Jie Wu , Chuanwei Zhang

We investigated the behavior of non-Hermitian bosonic gases with Hubbard interactions in the one-dimensional zigzag optical lattices through the calculation of dynamic response functions. Our findings showed the existence of a non-Hermitian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-22 Chengxi Li , Yubiao Wu , Wu-Ming Liu

We present a full symmetry classification of fermion matter in and out of thermal equilibrium. Our approach starts from first principles, the ten different classes of linear and anti-linear state transformations in fermionic Fock spaces,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-20 Alexander Altland , Michael Fleischhauer , Sebastian Diehl

A bosonic non-invertible Symmetry Protected Topological (NISPT) phase in (1+1)-dim is referred to as $\textit{intrinsic}$ if it cannot be mapped, under discrete gauging, to a gapped phase with any invertible symmetry, that is, if it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-17 Da-Chuan Lu , Zhengdi Sun

Many-body interactions give rise to the appearance of exotic phases in Hermitian physics. Despite their importance, many-body effects remain an open problem in non-Hermitian physics due to the complexity of treating many-body interactions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Sharareh Sayyad , Jose L. Lado

Symmetries associated with complex conjugation and Hermitian conjugation, such as time-reversal symmetry and pseudo-Hermiticity, have great impact on eigenvalue spectra of non-Hermitian random matrices. Here, we show that time-reversal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-21 Zhenyu Xiao , Kohei Kawabata , Xunlong Luo , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou

Time has entered the domain of topological phases in the field of non-Hermitian physics. Previous studies have relied on periodic modulation in time to make an intuitive connection to established spatial topological invariants, albeit with…

Thermal density matrices can be described by a pure quantum state within the thermofield formalism. Here we show how to construct a class of Hamiltonians realizing a thermofield state as their ground state. These Hamiltonians are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-06 Adrian E. Feiguin , Israel Klich

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit two distinct topological classifications based on their gap structure: line-gap and point-gap topologies. Although point-gap topology is intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems, its systematic construction remains a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Xiang Ji , Hao Geng , Naeem Akhtar , Xiaosen Yang