Winding in Non-Hermitian Systems
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This paper extends the property of interlacing of the zeros of eigenfunctions in Hermitian systems to the topological property of winding number in non-Hermitian systems. Just as the number of nodes of each eigenfunction in a self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problem are well-ordered, so too are the winding numbers of each eigenfunction of Hermitian and of unbroken PT-symmetric potentials. Varying a system back and forth past an exceptional point changes the windings of its eigenfunctions in a specific manner. Nonlinear, higher-dimensional, and general non-Hermitian systems also exhibit manifestations of these characteristics.
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