Disorder alone, without tilted bands or magnetism, can create exceptional rings and flat bands in the quasiparticle spectrum of Weyl and Dirac semimetals.
Classification of Exceptional Points and Non-Hermitian Topological Semimetals
1 Pith paper cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.
1
Pith paper citing it
abstract
Exceptional points are universal level degeneracies induced by non-Hermiticity. Whereas past decades witnessed their new physics, the unified understanding has yet to be obtained. Here we present the complete classification of generic topologically stable exceptional points according to two types of complex-energy gaps and fundamental symmetries of charge conjugation, parity, and time reversal. This classification reveals unique non-Hermitian gapless structures with no Hermitian analogs and systematically predicts unknown non-Hermitian semimetals and nodal superconductors; a topological dumbbell of exceptional points in three dimensions is constructed as an illustration. Our work paves the way toward richer phenomena and functionalities of exceptional points and non-Hermitian topological semimetals.
fields
cond-mat.mes-hall 1years
2019 1verdicts
CONDITIONAL 1representative citing papers
citing papers explorer
-
Disorder-induced exceptional and hybrid rings in Weyl/Dirac semimetals
Disorder alone, without tilted bands or magnetism, can create exceptional rings and flat bands in the quasiparticle spectrum of Weyl and Dirac semimetals.