Dirac fermions provide a prototypical description of topological insulators and their gapless boundary states, which are predicted by the bulk-boundary correspondence. Motivated by the unusual physical properties of these states, we study them in two different Hermitian quantum systems. In non-Hermitian systems, we investigate the failure of the bulk-boundary correspondence and show that non-Hermitian topological invariants impact a system’s bulk response. First, we study electronic topological insulators in three dimensions with time-reversal symmetry. These can be characterized by a quantized magnetoelectric coefficient in the bulk, which, however, does not yield an experimentally observable response. We show that the signature response of a time-reversal-invariant topological insulator is a nonlinear magnetoelectric effect, which in the presence of a small electric field leads to the appearance of half-integer charges bound to a magnetic flux quantum. Next, we consider topological superconducting nanowires. These feature Majorana zero modes at their ends, which combine nonlocally into a single electronic state. An electron tunneling through such a state will be transmitted phase-coherently from one end of the wire to the other. We compute the transmission phase for nanowires with broken time-reversal symmetry and confirm that it is independent of the wire length. Turning to non-Hermitian systems, we consider planar optical microcavities with an anisotropic cavity material, which may feature topological degeneracies known as excep- tional points in their complex frequency spectrum. We present a quantitative method to extract an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for the eigenmodes, and describe how a pair of exceptional points arises from a Dirac point due to the cavity loss. Finally, we investigate generalized topological invariants that can be defined for non- Hermitian systems, but which have no counterpart (i.e. vanish) in Hermitian systems, for example the so-called non-Hermitian winding number in one dimension. Contrary to Hermitian systems, the bulk-boundary correspondence breaks down: Comparing Green functions for periodic and open boundary conditions, we find that in general there is no correspondence between topological invariants computed for periodic boundary con- ditions, and boundary eigenstates observed for open boundary conditions. Instead, we prove that the non-Hermitian winding number in one dimension signals a topological phase transition in the bulk: It implies spatial growth of the bulk Green function, which we define as the response of a gapped system to an external perturbation on timescales where the induced excitations have not propagated to the boundary yet. Since periodic systems cannot accommodate such spatial growth, they differ from open ones.

Abstract in English / The research will analyze and compare the current research on the spectral factorization of non-singular and singular matrices. We show that a nonsingular non-scalar matrix A can be written as a product A = BC where the eigenvalues of B and C are arbitrarily prescribed subject to the condition that the product of the eigenvalues of B and C must be equal to the determinant of A. Further, B and C can be simultaneously triangularised as a lower and upper triangular matrix respectively. Singular matrices will be factorized in terms of nilpotent matrices and otherwise over an arbitrary or complex field in order to present an integrated and detailed report on the current state of research in this area. Applications related to unipotent, positive-definite, commutator, involutory and Hermitian factorization are studied for non-singular matrices, while applications related to positive-semidefinite matrices are investigated for singular matrices. We will consider the theorems found in Sourour [24] and Laffey [17] to show that a non-singular non-scalar matrix can be factorized spectrally. The same two articles will be used to show applications to unipotent, positive-definite and commutator factorization. Applications related to Hermitian factorization will be considered in [26]. Laffey [18] shows that a non-singular matrix A with det A = ±1 is a product of four involutions with certain conditions on the arbitrary field. To aid with this conclusion a thorough study is made of Hoffman [13], who shows that an invertible linear transformation T of a finite dimensional vector space over a field is a product of two involutions if and only if T is similar to T−1. Sourour shows in [24] that if A is an n × n matrix over an arbitrary field containing at least n + 2 elements and if det A = ±1, then A is the product of at most four involutions. We will review the work of Wu [29] and show that a singular matrix A of order n ≥ 2 over the complex field can be expressed as a product of two nilpotent matrices, where the rank of each of the factors is the same as A, except when A is a 2 × 2 nilpotent matrix of rank one. Nilpotent factorization of singular matrices over an arbitrary field will also be investigated. Laffey [17] shows that the result of Wu, which he established over the complex field, is also valid over an arbitrary field by making use of a special matrix factorization involving similarity to an LU factorization. His proof is based on an application of Fitting's Lemma to express, up to similarity, a singular matrix as a direct sum of a non-singular and nilpotent matrix, and then to write the non-singular component as a product of a lower and upper triangular matrix using a matrix factorization theorem of Sourour [24]. The main theorem by Sourour and Tang [26] will be investigated to highlight the necessary and sufficient conditions for a singular matrix to be written as a product of two matrices with prescribed eigenvalues. This result is used to prove applications related to positive-semidefinite matrices for singular matrices. / National Research Foundation of South Africa / Mathematical Sciences / M Sc. (Mathematics)

This Ph.D. thesis deals with E1-ring structures on the Hermitian K-theory in the motivic setting, more precisely, the existence of such structures on the motivic spectrum representing the hermitianK-theory is proven. The presence of such structure is established through two different approaches. In both cases, we consider the category of algebraic vector bundles over a scheme, with the usual requirements to do motivic homotopy theory. This category has two natural symmetric monoidal structures given by the direct sum and the tensor product, together with a duality coming from the functor represented by the structural sheaf. The first symmetric monoidal structure is the one that we are going to group complete along this text, and we will see that the second one, the tensor product, is preserved giving rise to an E1-ring structure in the resulting spectrum. In the first case, a classic infinite loop space machine applies to the hermitian category of the category of algebraic vector bundles over a scheme. The second approach abords the construction using a new hermitian infinite loop space machine which uses the language of infinity categories. Both assemblies applied to our original category have like output a presheaf of E1-ring spectra. To get an spectrum representing the hermitian K-theory in the motivic context we need a motivic spectrum, i.e, a P1-spectrum. We use a delooping construction at the end of the text to obtain a presheaf of E1-ring P1-spectra from the two presheaves of E1-ring spectra indicated above.

Although there is no natural internal product for hermitian forms over an algebra with involution of the first kind, we describe how tomultiply two ε-hermitian forms to obtain a quadratic form over the base field. This allows to define a commutative graded ring structure by taking together bilinear forms and ε-hermitian forms, which we call the mixedWitt ring of an algebra with involution. We also describe a less powerful version of this construction for unitary involutions, which still defines a ring, but with a grading over Z instead of the Klein group. We first describe a general framework for defining graded rings out of monoidal functors from monoidal categories with strong symmetry properties to categories of modules. We then give a description of such a strongly symmetric category Brₕ(K, ι) which encodes the usual hermitian Morita theory of algebras with involutions over a field K. We can therefore apply the general framework to Brₕ(K, ι) and theWitt group functors to define our mixed Witt rings, and derive their basic properties, including explicit formulas for products of diagonal forms in terms of involution trace forms, explicit computations for the case of quaternion algebras, and reciprocity formulas relative to scalar extensions. We intend to describe in future articles further properties of those rings, such as a λ-ring structure, and relations with theMilnor conjecture and the theory of signatures of hermitian forms.

Les objects d'étude principaux de la thèse "Flots géométriques kähleriens et presque-kähleriens" sont des généralisations du flot de Calabi et du flot hermitienne de Yang--Mills. <p> Le flot de Calabi $partial_t omega = -i delbar del S(omega) =- i delbar del Lambda_omega <p> ho(omega) $ tente de déformer une forme initiale kählerienne vers une forme kählerienne $omega_c$ de courbure scalaire constante caractérisée par $S(omega_c) = Lambda_{omega_c} <p> ho(omega_c) = underline{S}$ dans la même classe de cohomologie. La généralisation étudiée est le flot de Calabi twisté qui remplace la forme de Kähler--Ricci $ho$ par $ho + alpha(t)$, où le emph{twist} $alpha(t)$ est une famille de $2$-formes qui converge vers $alpha_infty$. Le but de ce flot est de trouver des métriques kähleriennes $omega_{tc}$ de courbure scalaire twistées constantes caractérisées par $Lambda_{omega_{tc}} (ho(omega_{tc}) +alpha_infty) = underline{S} + underline{alpha}_infty$. L'existence et la convergence de ce flot sont établies sur des surfaces de Riemann à condition que le twist soit défini négatif et reste dans une classe de cohomologie fixe. <p>Si $E$ est un fibré véctoriel holomorphe sur une varieté kählerienne $(X,omega)$, une métrique de Hermite--Einstein $h_{he}$ est caractérisée par la condition $Lambda_omega i F_{he} = lambda id_E$. Le flot hermitien de Yang--Mills donné par $h^{-1}partial_t h =- [Lambda_omega iF_{h} - lambda id_E]$ tente de déformer une métrique hermitienne initiale vers une métrique Hermite--Einstein. La version classique du flot fixe la forme kählerienne $omega$. Le cas où $omega$ varie dans sa classe de cohomologie et converge vers $omega_infty$ est considéré dans la thèse. Il est démontré que le flot existe pour tout $t$ sur des surfaces de Riemann et converge vers une métrique Hermite--Einstein (par rapport à $omega_infty$) si le fibré $E$ est stable. <p> Les généralisations du flot de Calabi et du flot hermitien de Yang--Mills ne sont pas arbitraires, mais apparaissent naturellement comme une approximation du flot de Calabi sur des fibrés adiabatiques. Si $Z,X$ sont des variétés complexes compactes, $pi colon Z \ / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Almost contact metric submersions constitute a class of Riemannian submersions whose total space is an almost contact metric manifold. Regarding the base space, two types are studied. Submersions of type I are those whose base space is an almost contact metric manifold while, when the base space is an almost Hermitian manifold, then the submersion is said to be of type II. After recalling the known notions and fundamental properties to be used in the sequel, relationships between the structure of the fibres with that of the total space are established. When the fibres are almost Hermitian manifolds, which occur in the case of a type I submersions, we determine the classes of submersions whose fibres are Kählerian, almost Kählerian, nearly Kählerian, quasi Kählerian, locally conformal (almost) Kählerian, Gi-manifolds and so on. This can be viewed as a classification of submersions of type I based upon the structure of the fibres. Concerning the fibres of a type II submersions, which are almost contact metric manifolds, we discuss how they inherit the structure of the total space. Considering the curvature property on the total space, we determine its corresponding on the fibres in the case of a type I submersions. For instance, the cosymplectic curvature property on the total space corresponds to the Kähler identity on the fibres. Similar results are obtained for Sasakian and Kenmotsu curvature properties. After producing the classes of submersions with minimal, superminimal or umbilical fibres, their impacts on the total or the base space are established. The minimality of the fibres facilitates the transference of the structure from the total to the base space. Similarly, the superminimality of the fibres facilitates the transference of the structure from the base to the total space. Also, it is shown to be a way to study the integrability of the horizontal distribution. Totally contact umbilicity of the fibres leads to the asymptotic directions on the total space. Submersions of contact CR-submanifolds of quasi-K-cosymplectic and quasi-Kenmotsu manifolds are studied. Certain distributions of the under consideration submersions induce the CR-product on the total space. / Mathematical Sciences / D. Phil. (Mathematics)

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This project deals with computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of Hermitian positive-semidefinite complex square matrix of order 4. The target is an implementation of computation in language VHDL to field-programmable gate array of type Xilinx Zynq-7000. This master project deals with algorithms used for computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of positive-semidefinite symmetric real square and positive-semidefinite complex Hermitian matrix and the analysis of algorithms by AnalyzeAlgorithm program assembled for this purpose. The closing part of this project describes implementation of the computation into field-programmable gate array with use of IP core Xilinx® Floating-Point \linebreak Operator and SVAOptimalizer, SVAInterpreter and SVAToDSPCompiler programs.

Almost contact metric submersions constitute a class of Riemannian submersions whose total space is an almost contact metric manifold. Regarding the base space, two types are studied. Submersions of type I are those whose base space is an almost contact metric manifold while, when the base space is an almost Hermitian manifold, then the submersion is said to be of type II. After recalling the known notions and fundamental properties to be used in the sequel, relationships between the structure of the fibres with that of the total space are established. When the fibres are almost Hermitian manifolds, which occur in the case of a type I submersions, we determine the classes of submersions whose fibres are Kählerian, almost Kählerian, nearly Kählerian, quasi Kählerian, locally conformal (almost) Kählerian, Gi-manifolds and so on. This can be viewed as a classification of submersions of type I based upon the structure of the fibres. Concerning the fibres of a type II submersions, which are almost contact metric manifolds, we discuss how they inherit the structure of the total space. Considering the curvature property on the total space, we determine its corresponding on the fibres in the case of a type I submersions. For instance, the cosymplectic curvature property on the total space corresponds to the Kähler identity on the fibres. Similar results are obtained for Sasakian and Kenmotsu curvature properties. After producing the classes of submersions with minimal, superminimal or umbilical fibres, their impacts on the total or the base space are established. The minimality of the fibres facilitates the transference of the structure from the total to the base space. Similarly, the superminimality of the fibres facilitates the transference of the structure from the base to the total space. Also, it is shown to be a way to study the integrability of the horizontal distribution. Totally contact umbilicity of the fibres leads to the asymptotic directions on the total space. Submersions of contact CR-submanifolds of quasi-K-cosymplectic and quasi-Kenmotsu manifolds are studied. Certain distributions of the under consideration submersions induce the CR-product on the total space. / Mathematical Sciences / D. Phil. (Mathematics)

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / More than a decade ago, it was shown that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with combined parity (P) and time-reversal (T ) symmetry exhibit real eigenvalues over a range of parameters. Since then, the field of PT symmetry has seen rapid progress on both the theoretical and experimental fronts. These effective Hamiltonians are excellent candidates for describing open quantum systems with balanced gain and loss. Nature seems to be replete with examples of PT -symmetric systems; in fact, recent experimental investigations have observed the effects of PT symmetry breaking in systems as diverse as coupled mechanical pendula, coupled optical waveguides, and coupled electrical circuits. Recently, PT -symmetric Hamiltonians for tight-binding lattice models have been extensively investigated. Lattice models, in general, have been widely used in physics due to their analytical and numerical tractability. Perhaps one of the best systems for experimentally observing the effects of PT symmetry breaking in a one-dimensional lattice with tunable hopping is an array of evanescently-coupled optical waveguides. The tunneling between adjacent waveguides is tuned by adjusting the width of the barrier between them, and the imaginary part of the local refractive index provides the loss or gain in the respective waveguide. Calculating the time evolution of a wave packet on a lattice is relatively straightforward in the tight-binding model, allowing us to make predictions about the behavior of light propagating down an array of PT -symmetric waveguides. In this thesis, I investigate the the strength of the PT -symmetric phase (the region over which the eigenvalues are purely real) in lattices with a variety of PT - symmetric potentials. In Chapter 1, I begin with a brief review of the postulates of quantum mechanics, followed by an outline of the fundamental principles of PT - symmetric systems. Chapter 2 focuses on one-dimensional uniform lattices with a pair of PT -symmetric impurities in the case of open boundary conditions. I find that the PT phase is algebraically fragile except in the case of closest impurities, where the PT phase remains nonzero. In Chapter 3, I examine the case of periodic boundary conditions in uniform lattices, finding that the PT phase is not only nonzero, but also independent of the impurity spacing on the lattice. In addition, I explore the time evolution of a single-particle wave packet initially localized at a site. I find that in the case of periodic boundary conditions, the wave packet undergoes a preferential clockwise or counterclockwise motion around the ring. This behavior is quantified by a discrete momentum operator which assumes a maximum value at the PT -symmetry- breaking threshold. In Chapter 4, I investigate nonuniform lattices where the parity-symmetric hop- ping between neighboring sites can be tuned. I find that the PT phase remains strong in the case of closest impurities and fragile elsewhere. Chapter 5 explores the effects of the competition between localized and extended PT potentials on a lattice. I show that when the short-range impurities are maximally separated on the lattice, the PT phase is strengthened by adding short-range loss in the broad-loss region. Consequently, I predict that a broken PT symmetry can be restored by increasing the strength of the short-range impurities. Lastly, Chapter 6 summarizes my salient results and discusses areas which can be further developed in future research.