Topological physics of non-Hermitian optics and photonics: a review

H Wang, X Zhang, J Hua, D Lei, M Lu, Y Chen - Journal of Optics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The notion of non-Hermitian optics and photonics rooted in quantum mechanics and
photonic systems has recently attracted considerable attention ushering in tremendous …

Quantum topological photonics

Q Yan, X Hu, Y Fu, C Lu, C Fan, Q Liu… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum topological photonics is a new research field with great potential that is based on
developments in both quantum optics and topological photonics. Topological photonics …

Non-Hermitian bulk–boundary correspondence in quantum dynamics

L **ao, T Deng, K Wang, G Zhu, Z Wang, W Yi, P Xue - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Bulk–boundary correspondence, a guiding principle in topological matter, relates robust
edge states to bulk topological invariants. Its validity, however, has so far been established …

Floquet topological phases of non-Hermitian systems

H Wu, JH An - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The non-Hermiticity caused breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) in
topological phase transition was cured by the skin effect for the systems with chiral symmetry …

Topological characterizations of an extended Su–Schrieffer–Heeger model

D **e, W Gou, T **ao, B Gadway, B Yan - npj Quantum Information, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Su–Schrieffer–Heeger (SSH) model perhaps is the easiest and the most basic
model for topological excitations. Many variations and extensions of the SSH model have …

Experimental realization of continuous-time quantum walks on directed graphs and their application in PageRank

K Wang, Y Shi, L **ao, J Wang, YN Joglekar, P Xue - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
PageRank is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine
results. An important step for quantum networks is to quantize the classical protocol as …

Non-Hermitian Floquet topological phases in the double-kicked rotor

L Zhou, J Pan - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Dynamical kicking systems possess rich topological structures. In this work we study Floquet
states of matter in a non-Hermitian extension of the double-kicked rotor model. Under the on …

Dynamic skin effects in non-Hermitian systems

H Li, S Wan - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study the time evolution processes of non-Hermitian systems under the open boundary
condition and confirm that the unconventional reflection, dubbed the dynamical skin effect …

Conserved quantities in parity-time symmetric systems

Z Bian, L **ao, K Wang, X Zhan, FA Onanga… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Conserved quantities such as energy or the electric charge of a closed system, or the Runge-
Lenz vector in Kepler dynamics, are determined by its global, local, or accidental …

Experimental quantum cloning in a pseudo-unitary system

X Zhan, K Wang, L **ao, Z Bian, Y Zhang, BC Sanders… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Deterministically cloning (copying) nonorthogonal states is forbidden in quantum
mechanics, but deterministic pseudo-unitary cloning is possible in a nonunitary system. We …