Quantized electrical, thermal, and spin transports of non-Hermitian clean and dirty two-dimensional topological insulators and superconductors

From lattice-regularized models, devoid of any non-Hermitian (NH) skin effects, here we compute the electrical (${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xy}$), thermal (${\ensuremath{\kappa}}_{xy}$), and spin (${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xy}^{sp}$) Hall, and the electrical (${G}_{xx}$) and thermal (${G}_{xx}^{th}$) longitudinal conductivities for appropriate NH planar topological insulators and superconductors related to all five nontrivial Altland-Zirbauer symmetry classes in their Hermitian limits. These models feature real eigenvalues over an extended NH parameter regime, only where the associated topological invariants remain quantized. In this regime, the NH quantum anomalous and spin Hall insulators show quantized ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xy}$ and ${G}_{xx}$, respectively, the NH $p+ip$ ($p\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}ip$) pairing shows half-quantized ${\ensuremath{\kappa}}_{xy}$ (${G}_{xx}^{th}$), while the NH $d+id$ pairing shows quantized ${\ensuremath{\kappa}}_{xy}$ and ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xy}^{sp}$ in the clean and weak disorder (due to random pointlike charge impurities) regimes. We compute these quantities in experimentally realizable suitable six-terminal setups using the Kwant software package. But, in the strong disorder regime, all these topological responses vanish and with the increasing non-Hermiticity in the system this generic phenomenon occurs at weaker disorder.

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Physical review. B./Physical review. B
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2024-12-04
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.110.l241402
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Topological Materials and Phenomena
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Quantized electrical, thermal, and spin transports of non-Hermitian clean and dirty two-dimensional topological insulators and superconductors

Bitan Roy, Sanjib Kumar Das
3 citations
Physical review. B./Physical review. B
Topological Materials and Phenomena
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article

Quantized electrical, thermal, and spin transports of non-Hermitian clean and dirty two-dimensional topological insulators and superconductors

Bitan Roy, Sanjib Kumar Das
article en
3 citations

Abstract

From lattice-regularized models, devoid of any non-Hermitian (NH) skin effects, here we compute the electrical (${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xy}$), thermal (${\ensuremath{\kappa}}_{xy}$), and spin (${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xy}^{sp}$) Hall, and the electrical (${G}_{xx}$) and thermal (${G}_{xx}^{th}$) longitudinal conductivities for appropriate NH planar topological insulators and superconductors related to all five nontrivial Altland-Zirbauer symmetry classes in their Hermitian limits. These models feature real eigenvalues over an extended NH parameter regime, only where the associated topological invariants remain quantized. In this regime, the NH quantum anomalous and spin Hall insulators show quantized ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xy}$ and ${G}_{xx}$, respectively, the NH $p+ip$ ($p\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}ip$) pairing shows half-quantized ${\ensuremath{\kappa}}_{xy}$ (${G}_{xx}^{th}$), while the NH $d+id$ pairing shows quantized ${\ensuremath{\kappa}}_{xy}$ and ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xy}^{sp}$ in the clean and weak disorder (due to random pointlike charge impurities) regimes. We compute these quantities in experimentally realizable suitable six-terminal setups using the Kwant software package. But, in the strong disorder regime, all these topological responses vanish and with the increasing non-Hermiticity in the system this generic phenomenon occurs at weaker disorder.

Physical review. B./Physical review. BVol. 110(24)
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