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Observation of Impurity-Induced Scale-Free Localization in a Disordered Non-Hermitian Electrical Circuit

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2025-01-16 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

One of unique features of non-Hermitian systems is the extreme sensitive to their boundary conditions, e.g., the emergence of non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under the open boundary conditions, where most of bulk states become localized at the boundaries. In the presence of impurities, the scale-free localization can appear, which is qualitatively distinct from the NHSE. Here, we experimentally design a disordered non-Hermitian electrical circuits in the presence of a single non-Hermitian impurity and the nonreciprocal hopping. We observe the anomalous scale-free accumulation of eigenstates, opposite to the bulk hopping direction. The experimental results open the door to further explore the anomalous skin effects in non-Hermitian electrical circuits.

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@article{arxiv.2501.08594,
  title  = {Observation of Impurity-Induced Scale-Free Localization in a Disordered Non-Hermitian Electrical Circuit},
  author = {Hao Wang and Jin Liu and Tao Liu and Wen-Bo Ju},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08594},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures