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Non-Hermitian Exceptional Landau Quantization in Electric Circuits

Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Marcel Franz

2020Physical Review Letters106 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Alternating current RLC electric circuits form an accessible and highly tunable platform simulating Hermitian as well as non-Hermitian (NH) quantum systems. We propose here a circuit realization of NH Dirac and Weyl Hamiltonians subject to time-reversal invariant pseudomagnetic field, enabling the exploration of novel NH physics. We identify the low-energy physics with a generic real energy spectrum from the NH Landau quantization of exceptional points and rings, which can avoid the NH skin effect and provides a physical example of a quasiparticle moving in the complex plane. Realistic detection schemes are designed to probe the flat energy bands, sublattice polarization, edge states protected by a NH energy-reflection symmetry, and a characteristic nodeless probability distribution.

Topics & Concepts

PhysicsHermitian matrixQuasiparticleQuantum mechanicsQuantization (signal processing)Landau quantizationQuantumElectric fieldRealization (probability)Eigenvalues and eigenvectorsEnergy spectrumSuperconductivityMagnetic fieldComputer scienceMathematicsStatisticsComputer visionQuantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian PhysicsTopological Materials and PhenomenaQuantum chaos and dynamical systems
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