NonHermitian Topological Phases in a Hermitian Modified Bosonic Kitaev Chain

Raditya Weda Bomantara, Ibsal Assi, J. P. F. LeBlanc +1

We present a modification to the bosonic Kitaev chain that, despite being Hermitian, supports both nonHermitian skin effect and nontrivial topological edge modes in its excitation…