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ArticleiScience2019

Fixed Points and Dynamic Topological Phenomena in a Parity-Time-Symmetric Quantum Quench.

Xingze Qiu, Tian-Shu Deng, Ying Hu, Peng Xue, Wei Yi

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Xingze QiuCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Tian-Shu DengCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Ying HuState Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China. Electronic address: huying@sxu.edu.cn.
Peng XueBeijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100084, China; Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China; State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. Electronic address: gnep.eux@gmail.com.
Wei YiCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei 230026, China. Electronic address: wyiz@ustc.edu.cn.

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We identify dynamic topological phenomena such as dynamic Chern numbers and dynamic quantum phase transitions in quantum quenches of the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian with parity-time (PT) symmetry. Their occurrences in the non-unitary dynamics are intimately connected with fixed points in the Brillouin zone, where the density matrices do not evolve in time. Based on our theoretical formalism characterizing topological properties of non-unitary dynamics, we prove the existence of fixed points for quenches between distinct static topological phases in the PT-symmetry-preserving regime, thus unveiling the interplay between dynamic topological phenomena and PT symmetry. Interestingly, non-Hermiticity of the driving Hamiltonian gives rise to rich dynamic topological phenomena which are different, either qualitatively or quantitatively, from their counterparts in unitary dynamics. Our work sheds light on dynamic topological phenomena in open systems and is readily accessible in experiments.

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