<p>Synthetic monopoles, which correspond to degeneracies of Hamiltonians, play a central role in understanding exotic topological phenomena. Dissipation-induced non-Hermiticity (NH), extending the eigenspectra of Hamiltonians from the real to complex domain, largely enriches the topological physics associated with synthetic monopoles. We here investigate exceptional points (EPs) in a four-dimensional NH system, finding a hypersphere-like non-Abelian Yang monopole in a five-dimensional parameter space, formed by exceptional point of order 2 (EP2) pairs. Such an exotic structure enables the NH Yang monopole to exhibit a unique topological transition, which is inaccessible with the point-like counterpart. We characterize such a topological phenomenon with the second Chern number.</p>

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A hypersphere-like non-Abelian Yang monopole and its topological characterization

  • Shou-Bang Yang,
  • Pei-Rong Han,
  • Wen Ning,
  • Fan Wu,
  • Zhen-Biao Yang,
  • Shi-Biao Zheng

摘要

Synthetic monopoles, which correspond to degeneracies of Hamiltonians, play a central role in understanding exotic topological phenomena. Dissipation-induced non-Hermiticity (NH), extending the eigenspectra of Hamiltonians from the real to complex domain, largely enriches the topological physics associated with synthetic monopoles. We here investigate exceptional points (EPs) in a four-dimensional NH system, finding a hypersphere-like non-Abelian Yang monopole in a five-dimensional parameter space, formed by exceptional point of order 2 (EP2) pairs. Such an exotic structure enables the NH Yang monopole to exhibit a unique topological transition, which is inaccessible with the point-like counterpart. We characterize such a topological phenomenon with the second Chern number.