Edge states jointly determined by eigenvalue and eigenstate winding

Jinbing Hu; Yixin Sha; Yi Yang

doi:10.1038/s41377-025-02038-y

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Edge states jointly determined by eigenvalue and eigenstate winding

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- Edge states jointly determined by eigenvalue and eigenstate winding
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 14, Issue 11, Pages: 3338-3339(2025)
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  1.School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
  2.Department of Physics and HK Institute of Quantum Science and Technology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
- Author bio：
  
  Yi Yang (yiyg@hku.hk)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-02038-y
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- Published Online：30 September 2025，
  
  Published：30 November 2025
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Hu, J. B., Sha, Y. X. & Yang, Y. Edge states jointly determined by eigenvalue and eigenstate winding. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 3338-3339 (2025).
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Hu, J. B., Sha, Y. X. & Yang, Y. Edge states jointly determined by eigenvalue and eigenstate winding. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 3338-3339 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-02038-y.

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A photonic synthetic angular-momentum lattice realizes non-Hermitian topological edge modes that are jointly determined by the eigenstate and eigenenergy winding numbers.

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