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Minimal Hamiltonian deformations as bulk probes of effective non-Hermiticity in Dirac materials

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keywords non-Hermitian Dirac semimetalpseudo-Lorentz symmetryDirac cone tilteffective non-Hermiticityquantum geometryoptical conductivityshear viscositybulk response
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Minimal deformations of the Dirac Hamiltonian separate irreducible non-Hermitian effects from simple parameter renormalizations in materials whose spectra remain real.

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Non-Hermitian Dirac semimetals at charge neutrality often look like ordinary Hermitian systems because their effects can be absorbed into renormalized velocities or other band parameters when the spectrum stays real. The paper shows that minimal deformations breaking pseudo-Lorentz symmetry provide a response-based way to identify which observables carry genuine non-Hermitian content that cannot be removed by redefinition. This distinction matters for open gain-loss systems because it supplies concrete bulk probes, such as the density of states under tilt or the tensor structure of shear viscosity, that remain sensitive to effective non-Hermiticity even without complex eigenvalues. The authors work in the weak non-Hermitian two-dimensional regime and compute spectral, geometric, optical, and viscoelastic quantities at zero temperature to demonstrate the separation.

Core claim

For a two-dimensional non-Hermitian Dirac semimetal in the weak-NH real-spectrum regime, minimal pseudo-Lorentz-symmetry-breaking deformations formulate a response-based diagnostic of effective non-Hermiticity. Tilt produces an NH-dependent slope in the density of states that resists collapse to a single effective velocity, while velocity anisotropy reduces to reparametrization. The quantum metric and collisionless optical conductivities remain NH-insensitive once symmetry selection is applied, whereas shear viscosity discriminates through its tensor structure.

What carries the argument

minimal pseudo-Lorentz-symmetry-breaking deformations of the Hamiltonian, which isolate observables that survive parameter redefinition from those that exhibit irreducible non-Hermitian structure

If this is right

  • Tilt in the Dirac cone yields a density of states slope that depends on non-Hermitian parameters and cannot be reproduced by velocity renormalization alone.
  • Velocity anisotropy is fully absorbed into an effective-velocity reparametrization.
  • The quantum metric and linear optical conductivities serve as NH-insensitive benchmarks.
  • Shear viscosity distinguishes non-Hermitian effects via differences in its tensor structure.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same minimal-deformation strategy could be tested in three-dimensional Dirac or Weyl materials to locate analogous irreducible responses.
  • Strain or electric-field protocols that induce controlled tilt or anisotropy offer a route to experimental verification of the diagnostic.
  • Response functions beyond the spectrum itself become the primary tools for detecting effective non-Hermiticity in open condensed-matter systems.

Load-bearing premise

Non-Hermitian terms remain weak enough that the energy spectrum stays entirely real.

What would settle it

An explicit computation of the density of states for a tilted non-Hermitian Dirac cone that checks whether its slope can be matched by any choice of effective velocity or instead requires additional non-Hermitian parameters.

Figures

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Non-Hermitian (NH) Dirac semimetals describe open gain--loss systems. Yet at charge neutrality, models featuring real spectrum often look Hermitian-like, with NH effects absorbed into renormalized band parameters. Here, we show that a response-based diagnostic of effective non-Hermiticity can be formulated using minimal pseudo-Lorentz-symmetry-breaking deformations, which separate observables that remain captured by parameter redefinitions from those that exhibit irreducible NH structure. For a two-dimensional NH Dirac semimetal in the weak-NH, real-spectrum regime, we analyze Dirac-cone tilt and velocity anisotropy and compute representative probes of spectral structure, quantum geometry, optical response, and viscoelasticity at zero temperature. We find that tilt yields an NH-dependent slope of the density of states that cannot be collapsed to a single effective velocity, while velocity anisotropy can be captured by effective-velocity reparametrization. Furthermore, the quantum metric and collisionless optical conductivities provide NH-insensitive benchmarks (with the nonlinear conductivity symmetry selected), whereas the shear viscosity offers a discriminator through its tensor structure. Our results identify minimal deformations and bulk response channels that enable access to effective non-Hermiticity even when the spectrum remains real.

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Summary. The manuscript develops a response-based diagnostic for effective non-Hermiticity in Dirac materials by introducing minimal pseudo-Lorentz-symmetry-breaking Hamiltonian deformations. In the two-dimensional NH Dirac semimetal at weak non-Hermiticity with real spectrum, it separates tilt and velocity anisotropy deformations and evaluates their impact on the density of states, quantum metric, collisionless optical conductivities, and shear viscosity at zero temperature. The central result is that tilt produces an NH-dependent DOS slope that cannot be absorbed into a single effective velocity, while anisotropy is reparametrizable; quantum metric and selected optical conductivities remain NH-insensitive, whereas shear viscosity discriminates through its tensor structure.

Significance. If the separation between reparametrizable and irreducible NH observables is shown to hold against the most general Hermitian effective theory, the work supplies concrete bulk probes (DOS slope under tilt, viscosity tensor) for detecting effective non-Hermiticity even when the spectrum is real. This is useful for open quantum systems in mesoscopic Dirac materials and supplies falsifiable predictions for transport and spectroscopic experiments.

major comments (1)
  1. The load-bearing claim that tilt yields an NH-dependent DOS slope irreducible to Hermitian redefinitions (abstract and the section computing the DOS for the tilted case) assumes the chosen minimal deformations exhaust all symmetry-allowed Hermitian reparametrizations. In the perturbative weak-NH real-spectrum regime a sufficiently general Hermitian effective theory (direction-dependent velocity renormalizations plus possible tilt adjustments) might still absorb the effect; the manuscript must explicitly demonstrate that the comparison was performed against this most general ansatz rather than a restricted one, otherwise the distinction between reparametrizable and irreducible NH structure is not established.
minor comments (3)
  1. Clarify the precise definition and symmetry properties of the 'minimal' deformations in the Hamiltonian section; the current presentation leaves open whether additional symmetry-allowed terms could be included without changing the conclusions.
  2. Add a short table or explicit comparison listing the effective parameters for the Hermitian versus NH cases for each observable; this would make the separation more transparent to readers.
  3. Improve figure captions to explicitly state which curves correspond to Hermitian limits and which retain irreducible NH contributions.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and for identifying a key point that strengthens the central claim of the manuscript. The major comment concerns the generality of the Hermitian comparison used to establish the irreducibility of the NH-dependent DOS slope under tilt. We address this below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: The load-bearing claim that tilt yields an NH-dependent DOS slope irreducible to Hermitian reparametrizations (abstract and the section computing the DOS for the tilted case) assumes the chosen minimal deformations exhaust all symmetry-allowed Hermitian reparametrizations. In the perturbative weak-NH real-spectrum regime a sufficiently general Hermitian effective theory (direction-dependent velocity renormalizations plus possible tilt adjustments) might still absorb the effect; the manuscript must explicitly demonstrate that the comparison was performed against this most general ansatz rather than a restricted one, otherwise the distinction between reparametrizable and irreducible NH structure is not established.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit demonstration against the most general Hermitian ansatz is required to fully substantiate the distinction. Our minimal deformations were selected as the leading pseudo-Lorentz-symmetry-breaking perturbations that isolate tilt from anisotropy while preserving the real-spectrum condition at weak NH. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated comparison (new subsection in Sec. III or an appendix) that parameterizes the most general Hermitian Dirac Hamiltonian allowed by the same symmetries, including arbitrary direction-dependent velocity renormalizations and independent tilt adjustments. We will then recompute the zero-temperature DOS for this general Hermitian case and show that any resulting slope can always be absorbed into a redefinition of the effective velocities, in contrast to the irreducible linear-in-NH correction that appears only when the underlying Hamiltonian is non-Hermitian. This explicit check will confirm that the reported NH-dependent DOS slope cannot be reproduced by Hermitian reparametrizations. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation remains self-contained via explicit response calculations.

full rationale

The paper derives its central diagnostic by computing specific bulk responses (DOS slope, quantum metric, optical conductivity, shear viscosity) under minimal tilt and anisotropy deformations in the weak-NH real-spectrum regime. These calculations compare NH models directly against Hermitian reparametrizations without reducing any claimed NH-dependent feature to a fitted input or self-citation chain. The separation between tilt (irreducible) and anisotropy (reparametrizable) follows from the explicit forms of the response functions rather than from an assumed uniqueness theorem or ansatz smuggled via prior work. No load-bearing step equates a prediction to its own definition or input by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on the domain assumption that the system remains in the weak non-Hermitian regime with real spectrum; no free parameters or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The two-dimensional NH Dirac semimetal is analyzed in the weak-NH, real-spectrum regime.
    Explicitly stated as the setting for the tilt, anisotropy, and response calculations.

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