Topological properties of single-particle states decaying into a continuum due to interaction
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2024-11-12
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We investigate how topological Chern numbers can be defined when single-particle states hybridize with continua. We do so exemplarily in a bosonic Haldane model at zero temperature with an additional on-site decay of one boson into two and the conjugate fusion of two bosons into one. Restricting the Hilbert space to two bosons at maximum, the exact self-energy is accessible. We use the bilinear Hamiltonian 𝐻0 corrected by the self-energy Σ to compute Chern numbers by two different approaches. The results are gauged against a full many-body calculation in the Hilbert space where possible. We establish numerically and analytically that the effective Hamiltonian H_eff=H_0(⃗k) + ∑(ω,⃗k)
reproduces the correct many-body topology if the considered band does not overlap with the continuum. In case of overlaps, one can extend the definition of the Chern number to the non-Hermitian 𝐻eff and there is evidence that the Chern number changes at exceptional points. But the bulk-boundary correspondence appears to be no longer valid and edge modes delocalize.
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Bosons, Topological order, Topological phase transition, Topological phases of matter, Exact solutions for many-body systems, Feynman diagrams