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October 30, 2025Physical Review Letters5 citations

Real-Time Edge Dynamics of Non-Hermitian Lattices

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TYTian‐Hua YangCFChen Fang

Key Points

  • Real-time dynamics is characterized by the Green's function at edges of non-Hermitian lattices, which diverge from traditional paradigms.
  • Asymptotic forms of the Green's function were analyzed by using a modified saddle point approximation to explore edge effects.
  • The dominant saddle point lies outside the generalized Brillouin zone, changing the dynamics perspective on edge Hamiltonians and simulations.
  • These findings highlight the feasibility of probing edge dynamics in real-time experiments using advanced numerical simulations.

Abstract

We derive the asymptotic forms of the Green's function at the open edges of general non-Hermitian band systems in all dimensions in the longtime limit, using a modified saddle point approximation and the analytic continuation of the momentum. The edge dynamics is determined by the ``dominant saddle point,'' a complex momentum which, contrary to previous conjectures, may lie outside the generalized Brillouin zone. From this result, we obtain the effective edge Hamiltonians that evidently, as demonstrated by extensive numerical simulations, characterize the dynamics on the edges and can be probed in real-time experiments or spectroscopies.

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Yang et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6902ac506303672991d2d183https://doi.org/10.1103/llbb-pcgk
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