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most citedEdge states and topological invariants of non-Hermitian systems

2.2k citations · 4.7k across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

hep-th2023★ 44 cited

Dynamical actions and q-representation theory for double-scaled SYK

Andreas Blommaert, Thomas G. Mertens, Shunyu Yao

We show that DSSYK amplitudes are reproduced by considering the quantum mechanics of a constrained particle on the quantum group SU. We construct its left-and right-regula…

hep-th2023

The power of Lorentzian wormholes

Andreas Blommaert, Jorrit Kruthoff, Shunyu Yao

As shown by Louko and Sorkin in 1995, topology change in Lorentzian signature involves spacetimes with singular points, which they called crotches. We modify their construction to…

hep-th2022★ 3 cited

A convergent genus expansion for the plateau

Phil Saad, Douglas Stanford, Zhenbin Yang +1

We conjecture a formula for the spectral form factor of a double-scaled matrix integral in the limit of large time, large density of states, and fixed temperature. The formula has…

hep-th2022★ 40 cited

An integrable road to a perturbative plateau

Andreas Blommaert, Jorrit Kruthoff, Shunyu Yao

As has been known since the 90s, there is an integrable structure underlying two-dimensional gravity theories. Recently, two-dimensional gravity theories have regained an enormous…

hep-th2021★ 14 cited

Comments on wormholes and factorization

Phil Saad, Stephen Shenker, Shunyu Yao

In AdS/CFT partition functions of decoupled copies of the CFT factorize. In bulk computations of such quantities contributions from spacetime wormholes which link separate asymptot…

hep-th2021★ 58 cited

Subleading Weingartens

Douglas Stanford, Zhenbin Yang, Shunyu Yao

Haar integrals over the unitary group contain subleading terms that are needed for unitarity. We study analogous effects in the time evolution operators of JT gravity and Brownian…

hep-th2021★ 43 cited

Wormholes without averaging

Phil Saad, Stephen H. Shenker, Douglas Stanford +1

After averaging over fermion couplings, SYK has a collective field description that sometimes has "wormhole" solutions. We study the fate of these wormholes when the couplings are…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 487 cited

Non-Hermitian Topological Invariants in Real Space

Fei Song, Shunyu Yao, Zhong Wang

The topology of non-Hermitian systems is drastically shaped by the non-Hermitian skin effect, which leads to the generalized bulk-boundary correspondence and non-Bloch band theory.…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 623 cited

Non-Hermitian skin effect and chiral damping in open quantum systems

Fei Song, Shunyu Yao, Zhong Wang

One of the unique features of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians is the non-Hermitian skin effect, namely that the eigenstates are exponentially localized at the boundary of the system. Fo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 939 cited

Non-Hermitian Chern bands

Shunyu Yao, Fei Song, Zhong Wang

The relation between chiral edge modes and bulk Chern numbers of quantum Hall insulators is a paradigmatic example of bulk-boundary correspondence. We show that the chiral edge mod…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 2.2k cited

Edge states and topological invariants of non-Hermitian systems

Shunyu Yao, Zhong Wang

The bulk-boundary correspondence is among the central issues of non-Hermitian topological states. We show that a previously overlooked `non-Hermitian skin effect' necessitates rede…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 205 cited

Topological invariants of Floquet systems: General formulation, special properties, and Floquet topological defects

Shunyu Yao, Zhongbo Yan, Zhong Wang

Periodically driven (Floquet) systems have been under active theoretical and experimental investigations. This paper aims at a systematic study in the following aspects of Floquet…