Exceptional topology in Non-Hermitian Twisted Bilayer Graphene

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03145v2
• Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 02:24:42 GMT
• Title: Exceptional topology in Non-Hermitian Twisted Bilayer Graphene
• Authors: Yingyi Huang,
• Abstract summary: We study a non-Hermitian TBG formed by one-layer graphene twisted relative to another layer with gain and loss. We find Dirac cones centered at only $K_M$ ($K'_M$) corner of the moir'e Brillouin zone at $K'$ ($K'_M$) valley deformed in the presence of non-Hermiticity. This is different from single layer graphene with gain and loss, where rings of exceptional points appear in both $K$ and $K'$ corners of the Brillouin zone.
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• Abstract: Twisted bilayer graphene has extraordinary electronic properties at the magic angle along with an isolated flat band at magic angle. However, the non-Hermitian phenomena in twisted bilayer graphene remain unexplored. In this work, we study a non-Hermitian TBG formed by one-layer graphene twisted relative to another layer with gain and loss. Using a non-Hermitian generalization of Bistritzer-MacDonald model, we find Dirac cones centered at only $K_M$ ($K'_M$) corner of the moir\'e Brillouin zone at $K'$ ($K$) valley deformed in the presence of non-Hermiticity. This is different from single layer graphene with gain and loss, where rings of exceptional points appear in both $K$ and $K'$ corners of the Brillouin zone.The coincident of exceptional rings at $\Gamma_M$ point characterizes an ``exceptional magic angle", at which the system hosts flat bands with zero energy and finite lifetime. More interestingly, we find that the topological charge in the moir\'e Brillouin zone is conserved during the expansion and fusion of the exceptional ring, which is absent in two-dimensional systems constraining by Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem.These findings can be demonstrated in realistic cold atom and metamaterial systems and will stimulate further study on non-Hermitian phenomena in twistronic.

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