Non-Hermitian Weyl semimetals: Non-Hermitian skin effect and non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence

We investigate novel features of three-dimensional non-Hermitian Weyl semimetals,paying special attention to the unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence.We use the non-Bloch Chern numbers as the tool to obtain the topological phase diagram,which is also confirmed by the energy spectra from our numerical results.It is shown that,in sharp contrast to Hermitian systems,the conventional(Bloch)bulk-boundary correspondence breaks down in non-Hermitian topological semimetals,which is caused by the non-Hermitian skin effect.We establish the non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence for non-Hermitian Weyl semimetals:the topological edge modes are determined by the non-Bloch Chern number of the bulk bands.Moreover,these topological edge modes can manifest as the unidirectional edge motion,and their signatures are consistent with the non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence.Our work establishes the non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence for non-Hermitian topological semimetals.     

自旋轨道耦合诱导的调制不稳定性

原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的调制稳定性决定了凝聚体的超流属性,是超冷原子物理研究的重要内容。在由拉曼光形成的自旋轨道耦合的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中,存在4种不同的零动量本征态,由于自旋轨道耦合的存在,其中两种态载有流,另两种态不载流。通过对它们进行调制稳定性分析,发现无论在什么参数空间,这4种态都是调制不稳定的,即自旋轨道耦合总是能够诱导出调制不稳定性。这些态的动力学演化揭示调制不稳定性能够产生复杂的图案。