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Quantized classical response from spectral winding topology

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25626-z

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  1. Key-Area Research and Development Program of GuangDong Province [2019B03033000]
  2. Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2020A1515110773]
  3. Singapore NRF [NRF-NRFI2017-04, R-144-000-378-281]
  4. Singapore MOE Tier-1 [WBS R-144-000-435-133]

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The authors predict the emergence of quantized classical response in the steady-state response of a non-Hermitian system, based on the fundamental mathematical properties of the Green's function, without invoking linear response theory. This new paradigm is classical in nature, applies to non-Hermitian settings, and is characterized by fascinating plateaus with quantized values based on spectral winding numbers as topological invariants.
Quantized response has so far eluded classical system beyond linear response theory. Here, the authors predict that a quantized classical response, arising from fundamental mathematical properties of the Green's function, shows up in steady-state response of a non-Hermitian system without invoking a linear response theory. Topologically quantized response is one of the focal points of contemporary condensed matter physics. While it directly results in quantized response coefficients in quantum systems, there has been no notion of quantized response in classical systems thus far. This is because quantized response has always been connected to topology via linear response theory that assumes a quantum mechanical ground state. Yet, classical systems can carry arbitrarily amounts of energy in each mode, even while possessing the same number of measurable edge states as their topological winding. In this work, we discover the totally new paradigm of quantized classical response, which is based on the spectral winding number in the complex spectral plane, rather than the winding of eigenstates in momentum space. Such quantized response is classical insofar as it applies to phenomenological non-Hermitian setting, arises from fundamental mathematical properties of the Green's function, and shows up in steady-state response, without invoking a conventional linear response theory. Specifically, the ratio of the change in one quantity depicting signal amplification to the variation in one imaginary flux-like parameter is found to display fascinating plateaus, with their quantized values given by the spectral winding numbers as the topological invariants.

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