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Correspondence between winding numbers and skin modes in non-hermitian systems

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arxiv 1910.01131 v3 pith:BMCGIXVN submitted 2019-10-02 cond-mat.mes-hall

Correspondence between winding numbers and skin modes in non-hermitian systems

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We establish exact relations between the winding of "energy" (eigenvalue of Hamiltonian) on the complex plane as momentum traverses the Brillouin zone with periodic boundary condition, and the presence of "skin modes" with open boundary condition in non-hermitian systems. We show that the nonzero winding with respect to any complex reference energy leads to the presence of skin modes, and vice versa. We also show that both the nonzero winding and the presence of skin modes share the common physical origin that is the non-vanishing current through the system.

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