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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 108, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.165105
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The study reveals that the complex energy bands of non-Hermitian systems can braid in momentum space even in one dimension, providing a foundation for Hermitian topological physics with chiral symmetry. A new elegant identity is derived, equating the linking number between the knots of braiding non-Hermitian bands and the zero-energy loop to the topological invariant of chiral-symmetric topological phases. Furthermore, an exotic class of phase transitions arising from the critical point transforming different knot structures of the non-Hermitian braiding is discovered, which is not included in conventional Hermitian topological phase transition theory.
The complex energy bands of non-Hermitian systems braid in momentum space even in one dimension. Here, we reveal that the non-Hermitian braiding underlies the Hermitian topological physics with chiral symmetry under a general framework that unifies Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems. Particularly, we derive an elegant identity that equates the linking number between the knots of braiding non-Hermitian bands and the zero-energy loop to the topological invariant of chiral-symmetric topological phases in one dimension. Moreover, we find an exotic class of phase transitions arising from the critical point transforming different knot structures of the non-Hermitian braiding, which are not included in the conventional Hermitian topological phase transition theory. Nevertheless, we show the bulk-boundary correspondence between the bulk non-Hermitian braiding and boundary zero modes of the Hermitian topological insulators. Finally, we construct typical topological phases with non-Hermitian braidings, which can be readily realized by artificial crystals.
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