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Perspective on topological states of non-Hermitian lattices

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Pith's one-line read The paper argues that a non-Hermitian lattice in dimension $d$ can be read as the projection of a Hermitian lattice in dimension $d+1$ plus a boundary condition, making defectiveness a boundary-condition phenomenon.

desk verdict A candid, well-organized Perspective whose main interpretive suggestion is honestly labeled as a conjecture; worth a referee for a review venue, but don't expect a new result. read the letter →

arxiv 1909.00809 v1 pith:MYHA74OE submitted 2019-09-02 cond-mat.mes-hall quant-ph

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The reading

This Perspective proposes an interpretive key for topological states of non-Hermitian lattices: a non-Hermitian lattice in dimension $d$ can be understood as an effective description of a Hermitian lattice in dimension $d+1$ plus a boundary condition, obtained by projecting the parent's scattering states onto a sub-Hilbert space. On this view the two features that make non-Hermitian topological physics strange—defectiveness (missing eigenvectors) and extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions—are two sides of the same coin: defectiveness is the lack of parent eigenstates compatible with the chosen boundary condition, and the much-studied skin effect is its extreme case. The author draws on a scattering picture, in which gains and losses in the effective Hamiltonian encode where particles enter and leave, and connects the framework to exceptional points, bulk-boundary correspondence, and Floquet systems. A sympathetic reader would care because if the picture is right, many non-Hermitian phenomena stop being isolated curiosities and become boundary-condition constraints inherited from a hidden Hermitian ancestor.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the Hermitian-parent construction: view a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian as the projection, onto a sub-Hilbert space, of a Hermitian parent lattice in one higher dimension together with a boundary condition such as an incidence direction for incoming particles. The boundary condition generates the gains and losses of the effective non-Hermitian child, and defectiveness is the exclusion of parent eigenstates that do not fit that boundary condition. A companion device is the doubled Hamiltonian built from $H$ and $H^\dagger$ as off-diagonal blocks, which restores the information missing from the non-Hermitian child; in the scattering picture the skin effect appears as extreme defectiveness at exceptional points whose order scales with system size.

What would settle it

Pick a canonical non-Hermitian lattice with skin modes, such as the one-dimensional chain with asymmetric hoppings, and try to realize it as the projection of scattering states of a two-dimensional topological ribbon with a chosen incidence direction. If no parent geometry and boundary condition reproduces the skin-mode eigenstates, or if the correspondence holds only at isolated energies that do not cover the whole spectrum, the central claim is falsified. The calculation is concrete: solve the parent scattering problem, project onto the strip, and compare the projected subspace with the child's defective eigenspace.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that defectiveness—the lack of a full set of linearly independent eigenvectors, the defining non-Hermitian feature at exceptional points—has a concrete physical meaning in a scattering picture. Take a Hermitian lattice with at least one translationally invariant direction, impose a boundary condition such as particles incident from one side, and project the resulting scattering states onto a sub-Hilbert space: the effective Hamiltonian for that subspace is non-Hermitian, with gains and losses that encode the boundary condition. The missing eigenvectors are precisely the parent eigenstates that are incompatible with that boundary condition; they are not absent from the parent, they are excluded by the constraint. The author illustrates this with a ribbon of a two-dimensional topological insulator whose boundary condition selects an edge state at a single edge, and cites the result that real-energy eigenstates of parity-time-symmetric non-Hermitian tight-binding chains correspond to resonant transmission states of a Hermitian parent. The paper also draws the corollary that a non-Hermitian lattice in dimension $d$ is, when a parent exists, the 'shadow' of a Hermitian lattice in dimension $d+1$ plus boundary conditions, and that the link may hold only at discrete resonance energies.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian can always be viewed as the projection of a Hermitian parent Hamiltonian plus a boundary condition; the paper explicitly concedes that no such parent is guaranteed to exist and that, when it does, the link often holds only at discrete resonance energies.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the scattering picture is right, the non-Hermitian skin effect is a boundary-condition phenomenon: open-boundary eigenstates localize at one edge because the chosen boundary condition excludes the extended states of the parent, so bulk and finite-system spectra can differ even in the thermodynamic limit.
  • Complex spectra force a choice of gap definition, and the choice changes the topology: point gaps allow a single band to wind around a base energy and carry a nonzero winding number, whereas line gaps preserve a more Hermitian-like classification.
  • Bulk-boundary correspondence cannot be assumed; the paper surveys non-Bloch invariants, real-space invariants, Green's-function invariants, and the doubled-Hamiltonian reduction as competing routes to restore it.
  • Floquet systems become a natural testing ground: projecting Floquet space onto a single replica produces effective non-Hermitian-like behavior, and tools such as the doubled Hamiltonian transfer between driven and non-Hermitian problems.
  • Defectiveness at exceptional points can be extreme in pristine lattices; the picture frames higher-order exceptional points and eigenspace condensation as the boundary-condition constraint taken to its limit.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the shadow picture holds generally, it suggests a constructive search strategy for missing parent lattices: for any anomalous non-Hermitian model, look for a Hermitian lattice in one higher dimension whose scattering subspace, after projection, reproduces the model; this would turn classification questions into a search over parent geometries.
  • The paper's own caveat that the parent link often holds only at resonance energies implies the picture is most secure for effectively single-particle, non-interacting settings; in interacting or time-dependent many-body systems the parent may need to be nonlocal in energy or time, which is a testable limitation rather than a contradiction.
  • A direct experimental test could be built in photonic or acoustic lattices: tune a boundary condition, such as the side from which a waveguide mode enters, and watch whether the number of linearly independent localized modes in the projected system changes exactly as the scattering picture predicts; appearance or disappearance of defectiveness under boundary-condition tuning would confirm the mech
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Summary. This Perspective surveys recent work on topological states of non-Hermitian lattices. It reviews possible definitions of a gap in the complex energy plane (point gap and line gap), the meaning of imaginary eigenvalues, the physical origin of gain, loss, and asymmetric couplings, and the role of exceptional points and defectiveness. The paper's central proposal is that a non-Hermitian lattice can be understood as the projection of a Hermitian parent lattice in one higher dimension, with a boundary condition that selects a subset of scattering states; defectiveness is then interpreted as the absence of enough eigenstates compatible with that boundary condition. This idea is illustrated with the Jin-Song construction for PT-symmetric tight-binding chains and with a Chern-ribbon scattering picture, and is connected to the non-Hermitian skin effect. The paper also surveys proposals for non-Hermitian bulk-boundary correspondence and analogies with Floquet systems. It explicitly acknowledges that not every non-Hermitian Hamiltonian admits such a Hermitian parent.

Significance. If the scattering-parent interpretation holds for the intended class of systems, it offers a unifying physical picture of defectiveness and skin effects, and it connects non-Hermitian topology to familiar Hermitian scattering and Floquet concepts. The paper is a useful perspective: it gives a clear account of point-gap versus line-gap notions, summarizes competing routes to bulk-boundary correspondence, and is unusually candid about the main weakness of its own proposal. It does not claim to fit parameters or derive new invariants, and it makes no falsifiable predictions; its contribution is conceptual synthesis. The explicit self-criticism in Section 6 is a strength, because it prevents the interpretive claim from being mistaken for a theorem.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 6 and Section 6.1] The central interpretive claim that defectiveness 'can be understood as the lack of enough states which are compatible with the boundary condition' (Section 6) is demonstrated only for a restricted class: real-energy eigenstates of PT-symmetric tight-binding models that map to resonant transmission states of a Hermitian parent, as shown in Section 6.1. The footnote to Section 6 concedes that even when a parent exists the effective description is energy dependent and the link is restricted to resonances, and Section 6.2 discusses skin-effect models with complex spectra for which no parent construction is given. Please either restrict the claim to the established class or explicitly promote the general statement to a conjecture and state what evidence would confirm or refute it, for instance a parent construction for an asymmetric-hopping chain with genuinely complex eigenvalues.
  2. [Section 6, dimensionality link] The expectation that 'a non-Hermitian lattice in dimension d is an effective description of an Hermitian lattice in dimension d + 1 plus boundary conditions' is presented as a consequence of the scattering picture, but the supporting references do not establish the existence of a parent for generic models or the preservation of the full spectrum, eigenvectors, and topological invariants under projection. The paper should either mark this dimensionality correspondence as an open conjecture, with a precise statement of the class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians to which it is intended to apply, or provide a concrete worked example, such as deriving a non-Hermitian SSH chain with non-reciprocal hoppings from a Chern-insulator ribbon parent plus a boundary condition.
  3. [Section 6.1, two-child construction] The argument that each non-Hermitian child is defective at the resonant energy because its time-reversed partner is assigned to the other child is specific to the two-child construction with opposite imaginary potentials. As written, the surrounding text suggests a general mechanism for defectiveness in arbitrary non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. Please label this mechanism as illustrative rather than universal, and clarify that generic defective Hamiltonians may become defective through other mechanisms, such as the higher-order exceptional points discussed in Section 6.2.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 6, first paragraph] The dimensionality convention is used inconsistently: the text first maps a d-dimensional lattice to a non-Hermitian lattice in dimension d-1, then states the expectation as a d-dimensional non-Hermitian lattice arising from a d+1-dimensional Hermitian parent. Please fix the notation so the reader can follow the dimensional shift.
  2. [Section 6.2] The phrase 'This anomalous localization was a attributed to the proximity' contains a typo; it should read 'was attributed to the proximity'.
  3. [Figure 4 caption] The phrase 'representing containing an absorbing on-site term' should be reworded, for example 'representing a tight-binding network containing an absorbing on-site term'.
  4. [Section 7] The phrase 'an integral over the the Brillouin zone' contains a duplicated article; it should read 'over the Brillouin zone'.
  5. [Footnote in Section 6] The crucial caveat about the absence of a guarantee that a Hermitian parent exists, and about the energy dependence of the effective description, is important enough to be stated in the main text; consider moving it out of the footnote.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the central scattering-parent interpretation is explicitly conditional and rests on external constructions, with no fitted input presented as prediction.

full rationale

This is a Perspective, not a derivation-based paper. The central interpretive claim—defectiveness as a lack of boundary-compatible states and the d-to-(d+1) Hermitian-parent correspondence—is framed as an expectation, with the paper's own Section 6 conceding that 'there is no warranty that a non-hermitian Hamiltonian can always be assimilated to the effective description of a scattering situation' and its footnote noting that even when a parent exists the effective description is energy-dependent and 'the link is restricted to a discrete set of energies (resonances).' The parent-construction procedure is imported from Jin and Song [96,97], which is an external citation rather than a self-citation chain; the author's own prior work ([46,48]) appears only as background for the skin effect and exceptional-point localization and is not used to forbid alternatives or to force a conclusion. No parameter is fitted to data, and no 'prediction' is presented that reduces by construction to an input. The main limitation is therefore one of scope—the scattering-parent picture is demonstrated only for real-energy resonance eigenstates of PT-symmetric chains, not for generic complex-spectrum defective lattices—which is a correctness/scope concern, not circularity. Under the hard rules, a self-contained interpretive paper with no fitted parameters and an explicitly conditional central claim receives score 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 2 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No free parameters are fitted and no new entities are introduced. The paper's interpretive claims rest on two domain assumptions, both explicitly flagged as not universally valid: the existence of a Hermitian parent and the validity of the projection to a lower-dimensional non-Hermitian lattice.

assumptions (2)
  • domain assumption Existence of a Hermitian parent Hamiltonian plus boundary conditions for a non-Hermitian lattice
    Section 6 states this is the main idea and acknowledges 'there is no warranty that a non-hermitian Hamiltonian can always be assimilated to the effective description of a scattering situation.'
  • domain assumption Projection from a translationally invariant lattice under non-equilibrium conditions to a lower-dimensional non-Hermitian lattice
    Section 6 introduces this mapping for the scattering picture and it depends on the existence of the parent and restriction of the Hilbert space.

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The search of topological states in non-Hermitian systems has gained a strong momentum over the last two years climbing to the level of an emergent research front. In this Perspective we give an overview with a focus in connecting this topic to others like Floquet systems. Furthermore, using a simple scattering picture we discuss an interpretation of concepts like the Hamiltonian's defectiveness, i.e. the lack of a full basis of eigenstates, crucial in many discussions of topological phases of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.

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Figure 1. (a) Scheme representing the eigenenergies forming bands (thick segments) in a typical gapped Hermitian system. The red dot marks the Fermi energy. In the non-Hermitian case, the gap can be defined as the prohibition of touching a base energy, also called point gap (b), or the prohibition of touching a line, also called line gap (c). axis, all without touching a base energy set inside the gap (and therefore closing i… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. 2 × 2 Hamiltonian with complex onsite terms ωdiff − iγdiff and −ωdiff + iγdiff and reciprocal hopping v exhibiting an exceptional point. (a) and (b) show the evolution of the real and imaginary parts of the eigenvalues, denoted with σ± as a function of the difference in frequencies ωdiff and loss factors γdiff. (c-e) show cuts for different values of γdiff: for γdiff > 0 (c) there is level repulsion in the real part… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. (a) Scheme representing a hypothetical Hermitian lattice with translational invariance along the horizontal direction. The red arrow represents the (boundary) condition of particles incoming from the left. (b) When projected on a strip the situation in (a) can also be described by an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian (gains and losses stemming from the boundary condition are represented in color). 6. Interpreting … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) Scheme representing a tight-binding network with an on-site imaginary potential −iγ at one site and an arbitrary network with an Hermitian Hamiltonian represented by Hsub. (b) represents the Hermitian parent of the system in (a) sharing the same eigenstate within t…

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