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Spontaneous Formation of Exceptional Points at the Onset of Magnetism (2207.05097v2)

Published 11 Jul 2022 in cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.mes-hall, and quant-ph

Abstract: We reveal how symmetry protected nodal points in topological semimetals may be promoted to pairs of generically stable exceptional points (EPs) by symmetry-breaking fluctuations at the onset of long-range order. This novel route to non-Hermitian (NH) topology is exemplified by a magnetic NH Weyl phase spontaneously emerging at the surface of a strongly correlated three-dimensional topological insulator when entering the ferromagnetic regime from a high temperature paramagnetic phase. Here, electronic excitations with opposite spin acquire significantly different life-times, thus giving rise to an anti-Hermitian structure in spin that is incompatible with the chiral spin texture of the nodal surface states, and hence facilitates the spontaneous formation of EPs. We present numerical evidence of this phenomenon by solving a microscopic multi-band Hubbard model non-perturbatively in the framework of dynamical mean-field theory.

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