Hall Conductance of a Non-Hermitian Chern Insulator

Abstract

In this letter we study the Hall conductance for a non-Hermitian Chern insulator and quantitatively describe how the Hall conductance deviates from a quantized value. We show the effects of the non-Hermitian terms on the Hall conductance are two folds. On one hand, it broadens the density-of-state of each band, because of which there always exists a non-universal bulk contribution. On the other hand, it adds decay term to the edge state, because of which the topological contribution also deviates from the quantized Chern number. We provides a simple formula for the topological contribution for a general two-band non-Hermitian Chern insulator, as a non-Hermitian version of the Thouless-Kohmoto-Nightingale-de Nijs formula. It shows that the derivation from quantized value increases either when the strength of the non-Hermitian term increases, or when the momentum dependence of the non-Hermitian term increases. Our results can be directly verified in synthetic non-Hermitian topological systems where the strength of the non-Hermitian terms can be controlled.

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