Towards the theory of types III and IV non-Hermitian Weyl fermions

Abstract

We develop the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian formalism to describe Weyl fermions of type III and IV. The spectrum of Hamiltonian has an unusual type of anisotropy. Namely, the hermiticity of Hamiltonian strongly depends on the direction in momentum space: for some directions the spectrum is real, in contrast for other directions it becomes complex. This fact leads to non-trivial adiabatic evolution and fractional Chern number. Additionally, we demonstrate that the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian can be regarded as a one-particle problem in context of topological band theory.