{"paper":{"title":"Topology with broken parity-time symmetry","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cond-mat.other","cond-mat.stat-mech"],"primary_cat":"quant-ph","authors_text":"Barry C. Sanders, Kunkun Wang, Lei Xiao, Peng Xue, Wei Yi, Xingze Qiu","submitted_at":"2019-06-18T09:50:20Z","abstract_excerpt":"Topological edge states arise in parity-time ($\\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric non-unitary quantum dynamics but have so far only been discussed in the $\\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry-unbroken regime. Here we report the experimental detection of robust topological edge states in one-dimensional photonic quantum walks with spontaneously broken $\\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry, thus establishing the existence of topological phenomena therein. We theoretically prove and experimentally confirm that the global Berry phase in non-unitary quantum-walk dynamics unambiguously defines topological invariants of the system in bot"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1906.07468","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}