Non-Hermitian dislocation modes: Stability and melting across exceptional points

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05244v3
• Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:10:05 GMT
• Title: Non-Hermitian dislocation modes: Stability and melting across exceptional points
• Authors: Archisman Panigrahi, Roderich Moessner, Bitan Roy
• Abstract summary: dislocation lattice defects support robust topological modes in the bulk of a non-Hermitian (NH) system. We explicitly demonstrate these findings for a two-dimensional NH Chern insulator, thereby establishing that dislocation lattice defects can be instrumental to experimentally probe pristine NH topology.
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• Abstract: The traditional bulk-boundary correspondence assuring robust gapless modes at the edges and surfaces of insulating and nodal topological materials gets masked in non-Hermitian (NH) systems by the skin effect, manifesting an accumulation of a macroscopic number of states near such interfaces. Here we show that dislocation lattice defects are immune to such skin effect or at most display a \emph{weak} skin effect (depending on its relative orientation with the Burgers vector), and as such they support robust topological modes in the bulk of a NH system, specifically when the parent Hermitian phase features band inversion at a finite momentum. However, the dislocation modes gradually lose their support at their core when the system approaches an exceptional point, and finally melt into the boundary of the system across the NH band gap closing. We explicitly demonstrate these findings for a two-dimensional NH Chern insulator, thereby establishing that dislocation lattice defects can be instrumental to experimentally probe pristine NH topology.

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