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Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are generally sensitive to boundary conditions, and their spectra and wave functions under open boundary conditions are not necessarily predicted by the Bloch band theory for periodic boundary conditions. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Kohei Kawabata , Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

The non-Hermitian skin effect refers to the accumulation of eigenstates near the boundary in open boundary lattice models, which can be systematically characterized using the non-Bloch band theory. Here, we apply the non-Bloch band theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Bo Li , He-Ran Wang , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

We study non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence in a non-Hermitian Su-Schieffer-Heeger model in a domain-wall configuration where the left and right bulks have different parameters. Focusing on the case where chiral symmetry is still…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-10 Tian-Shu Deng , Wei Yi

The non-Hermitian skin effect can arise in materials that have asymmetric hoppings between atoms or resonating units, which makes the bulk eigenspectrum sensitive to boundary conditions. When skin effect emerges, eigenstates in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Yi-Xin Xiao , C. T. Chan

The non-Bloch topology leads to the emergence of various counter-intuitive phenomena in non-Hermitian systems under the open boundary condition (OBC), which can not find a counterpart in Hermitian systems. However, in the non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Yue Zhang , Shuai Li , Yingchao Xu , Rui Tian , Miao Zhang , Hongrong Li , Hong Gao , M. Suhail Zubairy , Fuli Li , Bo Liu

Band structures of metamaterials described by a nonlinear eigenvalue problem are beyond the existing topological band theory. In this paper, we analyze non-Hermitian topology under the nonlinearity of eigenvalues. Specifically, we elucidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tsuneya Yoshida , Takuma Isobe , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Non-Bloch band theory serves as a cornerstone for understanding intriguing non-Hermitian phenomena, such as the skin effect and extreme spectral sensitivity to boundary conditions. Yet this theory hinges on translational symmetry and thus…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-15 Konghao Sun , Haiping Hu

Understanding the extreme sensitivity of the eigenvalues of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians to the boundary conditions is of great importance when analyzing non-Hermitian systems, as it appears generically and is intimately connected to the skin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Elisabet Edvardsson , Eddy Ardonne

Band theory provides the foundation for understanding electronic structure in crystalline materials, but its reliance on exact translational symmetry limits its applicability to systems with defects, disorder, incommensurate modulations, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Christopher A. Bairnsfather , Ralph M. Kaufmann , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

Although the non-Bloch band theory is a milestone in elaborating bulk energy bands of non-Hermitian systems under the open-boundary condition (OBC), vital issues related to multivalued functions of non-Hermitian energy bands remain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Yongxu Fu , Yi Zhang

We predict novel topological phases with broken time-reversal symmetry supporting the coexistence of opposite chiral edge states, which are fundamentally different from the photonic spin-Hall, valley-Hall, and higher-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 H. C. Wu , H. S. Xu , L. C. Xie , L. Jin

Non-Hermitian Chern insulators differ from their Hermitian cousins in one key aspect: their edge spectra are incredibly rich and confounding. For example, even in the simple case where the bulk spectrum consists of two bands with Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 James Bartlett , Erhai Zhao

Topology plays an important role in non-hermitian systems. How to characterize a non-hermitian topological system under open-boundary conditions(OBCs) is a challenging problem. A one-dimensional(1D) topological invariant defined on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 ChunChi Liu , LiuHao Li , Jin An

Recent studies have shown some unusual nonlinear dispersion behaviors that are disconnected from the linear regime. However, existing analytical techniques, such as perturbation methods, fail to correctly capture these behaviors. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Weijian Jiao

Recent studies have extended the notion of band topology to nonlinear systems by defining nonlinear counterparts of eigenvalue problems. They have found the nonlinearity-induced topological transition, while it has required complicated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Kazuki Sone , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

With the inclusion of arbitrary long-range hopping and (pseudo)spin-orbit coupling amplitudes, we formulate a generic model that can describe any two-dimensional two-band bulk insulators, thus providing a simple framework to investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Bo-Hung Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou

We develop a continuum theory to model low energy excitations of a generic four-band time reversal invariant electronic system with boundaries. We propose a variational energy functional for the wavefunctions which allows us derive natural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Amal Medhi , Vijay B. Shenoy

We explore the bulk-edge correspondence for topological insulators (superconductors) without time-reversal symmetry from the point of view of the index theorem for open spaces. We assume generic Hamiltonians not only with a linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Fukui , K. Shiozaki , T. Fujiwara , S. Fujimoto

We consider the spectral structure of indefinite second order boundary-value problems on graphs. A variational formulation for such boundary-value problems on graphs is given and we obtain both full and half-range completeness results. This…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Sonja Currie , Bruce Alastair Watson

Non-Bloch topological invariants preserve the bulk-boundary correspondence in non-Hermitian topological systems, and are a key concept in the contemporary study of non-Hermitian topology. Here we report the dynamic detection of non-Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Kunkun Wang , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Yiwen Han , Wei Yi , Peng Xue