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Recent experimental advancements in dissipation control have yielded significant insights into non-hermitian Hamiltonians for open quantum systems. Of particular interest are the topological characteristics exhibited by these non-hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 David Christian Ohnmacht , Valentin Wilhelm , Hannes Weisbrich , Wolfgang Belzig

Non-Hermitian systems have provided a rich platform to study unconventional topological phases.These phases are usually robust against external perturbations that respect certain symmetries of thesystem. In this work, we provide a new…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-28 Anouar Moustaj , Lumen Eek , Cristiane Morais Smith

We propose a non-Hermitian topological system protected by the generalized rotational symmetry which invokes rotation in space and Hermitian conjugation. The system, described by the tight-binding model with nonreciprocal hopping, is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Kai Chen , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Non-Hermitian topology provides a research frontier for exploring topological phenomena, revealing novel topological effects and driving the development of emergent materials and platforms. Here, we explore the non-Hermitian Chern insulator…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-13 Yi-Ling Zhang , Li-Wei Wang , Yang Liu , Zhao-Xian Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

Uncovering topologically nontrivial states in nature is an intriguing and important issue in recent years. While most studies are based on the topological band insulators, the topological state in strongly correlated low-dimensional systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-18 Hai-Ping Hu , Chen Cheng , Hong-Gang Luo , Shu Chen

The Uhlmann connection is a mixed state generalisation of the Berry connection. The latter has a very important role in the study of topological phases at zero temperature. Closely related, the quantum fidelity is an information theoretical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-30 Syed Tahir Amin , Bruno Mera , Nikola Paunković , Vítor R. Vieira

Topological insulators and superconductors at finite temperature can be characterized by the topological Uhlmann phase. However, a direct experimental measurement of this invariant has remained elusive in condensed matter systems. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 O. Viyuela , A. Rivas , S. Gasparinetti , A. Wallraff , S. Filipp , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAH)/$s$-wave superconductor (SC) hybrid systems are known to be an ideal platform for realizing two-dimensional topological superconductors with chiral Majorana edge modes. In this paper we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Ryoi Ohashi , Shingo Kobayashi , Yukio Tanaka

We propose a general principle of constructing non-Hermitian (NH) operators for insulating and gapless topological phases in any dimension ($d$) that over an extended NH parameter regime feature real eigenvalues and zero-energy topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Daniel J. Salib , Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy

We introduce the exceptional topological insulator (ETI), a non-Hermitian topological state of matter that features exotic non-Hermitian surface states which can only exist within the three-dimensional topological bulk embedding. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 M. Michael Denner , Anastasiia Skurativska , Frank Schindler , Mark H. Fischer , Ronny Thomale , Tomáš Bzdušek , Titus Neupert

Non-Hermitian (NH) quantum systems have emerged as a powerful framework for describing open quantum systems, non-equilibrium dynamics, and engineered quantum optical materials. However, solving the ground-state properties of NH systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Lavoisier Wah , Remmy Zen , Flore K. Kunst

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 behavior of higher-order boundary states in non-Hermitian systems is elusive and thereby finding the mechanism behind these states is both essential and significant. Here, we uncover a novel mechanism that induces anomalous higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Hui-Qiang Liang , Zuxuan Ou , Linhu Li , Guo-Fu Xu

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit a fundamental spectral dichotomy absent in Hermitian physics: the eigenvalue spectrum and the eigenstate spectrum can deviate significantly in the thermodynamic limit. We explain how non-Hermitian Hamiltonians…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Lucien Jezequel , Loïc Herviou , Jens Bardarson

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), the accumulation of eigen wavefunctions at boundaries of open systems, underlies a variety of exotic properties that defy conventional wisdom. While NHSE and its intriguing impact on band topology and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-16 Qian Liang , Dizhou Xie , Zhaoli Dong , Haowei Li , Hang Li , Bryce Gadway , Wei Yi , Bo Yan

In recent years, non-Hermitian (NH) topological semimetals have garnered significant attention due to their unconventional properties. In this work, we explore the transport properties of a three-dimensional dissipative Weyl semi-metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Soumi Dey , Ayan Banerjee , Debashree Chowdhury , Awadhesh Narayan

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

The past decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in topological materials, and a lot of mathematical concepts have been introduced in condensed matter physics. Among them, the bulk-boundary correspondence is the central topic in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

It is still an outstanding challenge to characterize and understand the topological features of strongly interacting states such as bound-states in interacting quantum systems. Here, by introducing a cotranslational symmetry in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-17 Xizhou Qin , Feng Mei , Yongguan Ke , Li Zhang , Chaohong Lee

The non-Abelian topological order has attracted a lot of attention for its fundamental importance and exciting prospect of topological quantum computation. However, explicit demonstration or identification of the non-Abelian states and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-14 W. Zhu , S. S. Gong , F. D. M. Haldane , D. N. Sheng