Edge Modes, Degeneracies, and Topological Numbers in Non-Hermitian Systems.

By D. Leykam, K. Bliokh, Chunli Huang, Y. Chong, Franco Nori. Physical Review Letters, 2016

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We analyze chiral topological edge modes in a non-Hermitian variant of the 2D Dirac equation. Such modes appear at interfaces between media with different "masses" and/or signs of the "non-Hermitian charge." The existence of these edge modes is intimately related to exceptional points of the bulk Hamiltonians, i.e., degeneracies in the bulk spectra of the media. We find that the topological edge modes can be divided into three families ("Hermitian-like," "non-Hermitian," and "mixed"); these are characterized by two winding numbers, describing two distinct kinds of half-integer charges carried by the exceptional points. We show that all the above types of topological edge modes can be realized in honeycomb lattices of ring resonators with asymmetric or gain-loss couplings.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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