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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 84, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.205128
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- MEXT, Japan [22103005, 22540383, 23740212]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22540383, 23740212] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Topological stability of the edge states is investigated for non-Hermitian systems. We examine two classes of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians supporting real bulk eigenenergies in weak non-Hermiticity: SU(1,1) and SO(3,2) Hamiltonians. As an SU(1,1) Hamiltonian, the tight-binding model on the honeycomb lattice with imaginary onsite potentials is examined. Edge states with ReE = 0 and their topological stability are discussed by the winding number and the index theorem based on the pseudo-anti-Hermiticity of the system. As a higher-symmetric generalization of SU(1,1) Hamiltonians, we also consider SO(3,2) models. We investigate non-Hermitian generalization of the Luttinger Hamiltonian on the square lattice and that of the Kane-Mele model on the honeycomb lattice, respectively. Using the generalized Kramers theorem for the time-reversal operator Theta with Theta(2) 2 = +1 [M. Sato et al., e-print arXiv: 1106.1806], we introduce a time-reversal-invariant Chern number from which topological stability of gapless edge modes is argued.
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