Non-Bloch topological invariants in a non-Hermitian domain wall system
Abstract
We study non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence in a non-Hermitian Su-Schieffer-Heeger model in a domain wall configuration where the left and right bulks have different parameters. Focusing on the case where chiral symmetry is still conserved, we show that non-Hermitian skin effects of bulk states persist in the system, while the definition of the non-Bloch winding number of either bulk depends on parameters on both sides of the boundary. Under these redefined non-Bloch topological invariants, we confirm non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence under the domain wall configuration, which exemplifies the impact of boundary conditions in non-Hermitian topological systems.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.035102
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.03811
- Bibcode:
- 2019PhRvB.100c5102D
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 6 figures