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In a finite one-dimensional non-Hermitian system, the number of zero modes does not necessarily reflect the topology of the system. This is known as the breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence and has led to misconceptions about the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-06 K. Monkman , J. Sirker

Topological phases of Hermitian systems are known to exhibit intriguing properties such as the presence of robust boundary states and the famed bulk-boundary correspondence. These features can change drastically for their non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Flore K. Kunst , Vatsal Dwivedi

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, which describe a wide range of dissipative systems, and higher-order topological phases, which exhibit novel boundary states on corners and hinges, comprise two areas of intense current research. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Elisabet Edvardsson , Flore K. Kunst , Emil J. Bergholtz

Recently, the study of non-Hermitian physics has attracted considerable attention. The modified bulk-boundary correspondence has been proposed to understand topological edge states in non-Hermitian static systems. Here we report a new…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-18 Bo Wang , Tian Chen , Xiangdong Zhang

Dramatically different from the Hermitian systems, the conventional Bulk-Boundary Correspondence (BBC) is broken in the non-Hermitian systems. In this article, we use edge entanglement entropy to characterize the topological properties of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Weitao Chen , Liangtao Peng , Hantao Lu , Xiancong Lu

Capital to topological insulators, the bulk-boundary correspondence ties a topological invariant computed from the bulk (extended) states with those at the boundary, which are hence robust to disorder. Here we put forward an ordering unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , J. E. Barrios Vargas , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Critical edge states appear at the bulk gap closing points of topological transitions. Their emergence signify the existence of topologically nontrivial critical points, whose descriptions fall outside the scope of gapped topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Longwen Zhou , Rujia Jing , Shenlin Wu

The topology of non-Hermitian systems is fundamentally changed by the non-Hermitian skin effect, which leads to the generalized bulk-boundary correspondence. Based on the non-Bloch band theory, we get insight into the interplay between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-28 Xaing Ji , Wenchen Ding , Yuanping Chen , Xiaosen Yang

The conventional bulk-boundary correspondence breaks down in non-Hermitian systems. In this paper, we reestablish the bulk-boundary correspondence in one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems by applying the scattering theory, which is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Haoshu Li , Qian Niu

In previous studies, the topological invariants of 1D non-Hermitian systems have been defined in open boundary condition (OBC) to satisfy the bulk-boundary correspondence. The extreme sensitivity of bulk energy spectra to boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Eunwoo Lee , Hyunjik Lee , Bohm-Jung Yang

We consider a 3-dimensional (3D) non-Hermitian exceptional line semimetal model and take open boundary conditions in x, y, and z directions separately. In each case, we calculate the parameter regions where the bulk-boundary correspondence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Zhicheng Zhang , Zhesen Yang , Jiangping Hu

Recently, there is an interest in studying the bulk-edge correspondence for nonlinear eigenvalues problems in a two-dimensional topological system with spin-orbit coupling. By introducing auxiliary eigenvalues, the nonlinear bulk-edge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-27 Shujie Cheng , Yonghua Jiang , Gao Xianlong

The bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC), i.e. the direct relation between bulk topological invariants defined for infinite periodic systems and the occurrence of protected zero-energy surface states in finite samples, is a ubiquitous and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 Rebekka Koch , Jan Carl Budich

The bulk-edge correspondence is one of the most important ingredients in the theory of topological phases of matter. While the bulk-edge correspondence is applicable for Hermitian junction systems where two subsystems with independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Geonhwi Hwang , Hideaki Obuse

Genuinely non-Hermitian topological phases can be realized in open systems with sufficiently strong gain and loss; in such phases, the Hamiltonian cannot be deformed into a gapped Hermitian Hamiltonian without energy bands touching each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein , Gil Refael , Bernd Rosenow

One of the hallmarks of topological insulators is the correspondence between the value of its bulk topological invariant and the number of topologically protected edge modes observed in a finite-sized sample. This bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ana Silva , Jasper van Wezel

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a hallmark feature of topological phases of matter. Nonetheless, our understanding of the correspondence remains incomplete for phases with intrinsic topological order, and is nearly entirely lacking for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-11 Thomas Schuster , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Ashvin Vishwanath , Norman Y. Yao

Hermitian topological materials are characterized by the nontrivial relation between topological numbers and edge modes, i.e. the bulk-boundary correspondence. In non-Hermitian systems, the conventional correspondence breaks down. Instead,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-22 Shohei Masuda , Masaaki Nakamura

The bulk-boundary correspondence is among the central issues of non-Hermitian topological states. We show that a previously overlooked `non-Hermitian skin effect' necessitates redefinition of topological invariants in a generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

A modified periodic boundary condition adequate for non-hermitian topological systems is proposed. Under this boundary condition a topological number characterizing the system is defined in the same way as in the corresponding hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yositake Takane