Quantized classical response from spectral winding topology

Linhu Li (), Sen Mu, Ching Hua Lee () and Jiangbin Gong ()
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Linhu Li: Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai Campus)
Sen Mu: National University of Singapore
Ching Hua Lee: National University of Singapore
Jiangbin Gong: National University of Singapore

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract Topologically quantized response is one of the focal points of contemporary condensed matter physics. While it directly results in quantized response coefficients in quantum systems, there has been no notion of quantized response in classical systems thus far. This is because quantized response has always been connected to topology via linear response theory that assumes a quantum mechanical ground state. Yet, classical systems can carry arbitrarily amounts of energy in each mode, even while possessing the same number of measurable edge states as their topological winding. In this work, we discover the totally new paradigm of quantized classical response, which is based on the spectral winding number in the complex spectral plane, rather than the winding of eigenstates in momentum space. Such quantized response is classical insofar as it applies to phenomenological non-Hermitian setting, arises from fundamental mathematical properties of the Green’s function, and shows up in steady-state response, without invoking a conventional linear response theory. Specifically, the ratio of the change in one quantity depicting signal amplification to the variation in one imaginary flux-like parameter is found to display fascinating plateaus, with their quantized values given by the spectral winding numbers as the topological invariants.

Date: 2021
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