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Quantum metric and wavepackets at exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems

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arxiv 2009.06987 v1 pith:D3UTSNEW submitted 2020-09-15 cond-mat.mes-hall physics.opticsquant-ph

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The usual concepts of topological physics, such as the Berry curvature, cannot be applied directly to non-Hermitian systems. We show that another object, the quantum metric, which often plays a secondary role in Hermitian systems, becomes a crucial quantity near exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems, where it diverges in a way that fully controls the description of wavepacket trajectories. The quantum metric behaviour is responsible for a constant acceleration with a fixed direction, and for a non-vanishing constant velocity with a controllable direction. Both contributions are independent of the wavepacket size.

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