Winding-control mechanism of non-Hermitian systems

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Main Authors: Fu, Yongxu, Zhang, Yi
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author Fu, Yongxu
Zhang, Yi
author_facet Fu, Yongxu
Zhang, Yi
contents Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit various interesting and inter-connected spectral, topological, and boundary-sensitive features. By introducing conditional boundary conditions (CBCs) for non-Hermitian quantum systems, we explore a winding-control mechanism that selectively collapses specific periodic boundary condition (PBC) loop-type spectra onto their open boundary condition (OBC) counterparts, guided by their specific winding numbers, together with a composite reconstruction of the Brillouin zone (BZ) and generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ). The corresponding eigenstates also manifest nontrivial skin effects or extended behaviors arising from the interplay between BZ and GBZ structures. Intuitively, the winding-control mechanism is tied to the residual imaginary velocity originating from the corresponding Fermi sea, establishing the CBCs as the transition boundaries between different non-Hermitian topology of spectral windings. Furthermore, we can generalize our control by incorporating similarity transformations and holomorphic mappings with the boundary controls. We demonstrate the winding control numerically within various models, which enriches our knowledge of non-Hermitian physics across the spectrum, topology, and bulk-boundary correspondence.
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Fu, Yongxu
Zhang, Yi
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit various interesting and inter-connected spectral, topological, and boundary-sensitive features. By introducing conditional boundary conditions (CBCs) for non-Hermitian quantum systems, we explore a winding-control mechanism that selectively collapses specific periodic boundary condition (PBC) loop-type spectra onto their open boundary condition (OBC) counterparts, guided by their specific winding numbers, together with a composite reconstruction of the Brillouin zone (BZ) and generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ). The corresponding eigenstates also manifest nontrivial skin effects or extended behaviors arising from the interplay between BZ and GBZ structures. Intuitively, the winding-control mechanism is tied to the residual imaginary velocity originating from the corresponding Fermi sea, establishing the CBCs as the transition boundaries between different non-Hermitian topology of spectral windings. Furthermore, we can generalize our control by incorporating similarity transformations and holomorphic mappings with the boundary controls. We demonstrate the winding control numerically within various models, which enriches our knowledge of non-Hermitian physics across the spectrum, topology, and bulk-boundary correspondence.
title Winding-control mechanism of non-Hermitian systems
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16887