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Non-Hermitian topological phases exhibit a number of exotic features that have no Hermitian counterparts, including the skin effect and breakdown of the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we implement the non-Hermitian…

The zero-mode corner states in the gap of two-dimensional non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model are robust to infinitesimal perturbations that preserve chiral symmetry. However, we demonstrate that this general belief is no longer valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Xue-Min Yang , Hao Lin , Jian Li , Jia-Ji Zhu , Jun-Li Zhu , Hong Wu

The multipartite non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model is explored as a prototypical example of one-dimensional systems with several sublattice sites for unveiling intriguing insulating and metallic phases with no Hermitian counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Ritu Nehra , Dibyendu Roy

Non-Hermitian systems distinguish themselves from Hermitian systems by exhibiting a phase transition point called an exceptional point (EP), which is the point at which two eigenstates coalesce under a system parameter variation. Many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Kun Ding , Guancong Ma , Meng Xiao , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to distinctive topological phenomena absent in Hermitian systems. However, connection between such intrinsic non-Hermitian topology and Hermitian topology has remained largely elusive. Here, considering the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Shu Hamanaka , Tsuneya Yoshida , Kohei Kawabata

We consider a non-Hermitian (NH) analog of a second-order topological insulator, protected by chiral symmetry, in the presence of next-nearest neighbor hopping elements to theoretically investigate the interplay beyond the first nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Arijit Saha , Tanay Nag

The non-Hermitian (NH) skin effect is a truly NH feature, which manifests itself as an accumulation of states, known as skin states, on the boundaries of a system. In this perspective, we discuss several aspects of the NH skin effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Julius T. Gohsrich , Ayan Banerjee , Flore K. Kunst

A prominent feature of some one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems is that all right-eigenstates of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian are localized in one end of the chain. The topological and trivial phases are distinguished by the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Motohiko Ezawa

Non-Hermitian systems can host topological states with novel topological invariants and bulk-edge correspondences that are distinct from conventional Hermitian systems. Here we show that two unique classes of non-Hermitian 2D topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Junpeng Hou , Ya-Jie Wu , Chuanwei Zhang

Non-Hermitian (NH) systems exhibit intricate spectral topology arising from complex-valued eigenenergies, with positive/negative imaginary parts representing gain/loss. Unlike the orthogonal eigenstates of Hermitian systems, NH systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Jia-Xin Zhong , Jeewoo Kim , Kai Chen , Jing Lu , Kun Ding , Yun Jing

The role of mixed states in topological quantum matter is less known than that of pure quantum states. Generalisations of topological phases appearing in pure states had received only quite recently attention in the literature. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Manuel Asorey , Paolo Facchi , Giuseppe Marmo

The generalization of the geometric phase to the realm of mixed states is known as Uhlmann phase. Recently, applications of this concept to the field of topological insulators have been made and an experimental observation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 D. Morachis Galindo , F. Rojas , Jesús A. Maytorena

Higher-order topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems has recently become one of the most promising and rapidly developing fields in condensed matter physics. Many distinct phases that were not present in the Hermitian equivalents are shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Subhajyoti Bid , Gaurab Kumar Dash , Manisha Thakurathi

In this work we study many-body 'steady states' that arise in the non-Hermitian generalisation of the non-interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model at a finite density of fermions. We find that the hitherto known phase diagrams for this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Ayan Banerjee , Suraj S. Hegde , Adhip Agarwala , Awadhesh Narayan

Exceptional points (EPs) have recently attracted considerable attention in the study of non-Hermitian systems and in applications such as sensors and mode switching. In particular, nontrivial topological structures of EPs have been studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Kyu-Won Park , Jinuk Kim , Kabgyun Jeong

A topological measure characterizing symmetry-protected topological phases in one-dimensional open fermionic systems is proposed. It is built upon the kinematic approach to the geometric phase of mixed states and facilitates the extension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Da-Jian Zhang , Jiangbin Gong

Point-gap topological phases of non-Hermitian systems exhibit exotic boundary states that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Here, we develop classification of second-order point-gap topological phases protected by reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Yutaro Tanaka , Daichi Nakamura , Ryo Okugawa , Kohei Kawabata

The ground states of noninteracting fermions in one-dimension with chiral symmetry form a class of topological band insulators, described by a topological invariant that can be related to the Zak phase. Recently, a generalization of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-05 Paolo Molignini , Nigel Cooper

Constructing new topological phases is very important in both Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems because of their potential applications. Here we propose theoretically and demonstrate a general scheme experimentally to construct Nth power…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Wenyuan Deng , Tian Chen , Xiangdong Zhang

The Uhlmann process is built on the density matrix of a mixed quantum state and offers a way to characterize topological properties at finite temperatures. We analyze an ideal spin-j quantum paramagnet in a magnetic field undergoing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Xu-Yang Hou , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien