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The non-Hermitian skin effect, by which the eigenstates of Hamiltonian are predominantly localized at the boundary, has revealed a strong sensitivity of non-Hermitian systems to the boundary condition. Here we experimentally observe a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Lei Xiao , Wen-Tan Xue , Fei Song , Yu-Min Hu , Wei Yi , Zhong Wang , Peng Xue

While tremendous research has revealed that symmetry enriches topological phases of matter, more general principles that protect topological phases have yet to be explored. In this Letter, we elucidate the roles of subspaces in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Kenji Shimomura , Ryo Takami , Daichi Nakamura , Masatoshi Sato

The non-Hermitian skin effect refers to the accumulation of eigenstates near the boundary in open boundary lattice models, which can be systematically characterized using the non-Bloch band theory. Here, we apply the non-Bloch band theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Bo Li , He-Ran Wang , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

The non-Hermitian skin effect is a distinctive phenomenon in non-Hermitian systems, which manifests as the anomalous localization of bulk states at the boundary. To understand the physical origin of the non-Hermitian skin effect, a bulk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Tuo Wan , Kai Zhang , Junkai Li , Zhesen Yang , Zhaoju Yang

We analyze a correlated system in equilibrium with special emphasis on non-Hermitian topology inducing a skin effect. The pseudo-spectrum, computed by the real-space dynamical mean-field theory, elucidates that additional pseudo-eigenstates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Tsuneya Yoshida

The non-Hermitian skin effects are representative phenomena intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems: the energy spectra and eigenstates under the open boundary condition (OBC) drastically differ from those under the periodic boundary condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Yusuke O. Nakai , Nobuyuki Okuma , Daichi Nakamura , Kenji Shimomura , Masatoshi Sato

We investigate the topological phase transitions and edge-state properties of a time-multiplexed nonunitary quantum walk with sublattice symmetry. By constructing a Floquet operator incorporating tunable gain and loss, we systematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Huimin Wang , Zhihao Xu , Zhijian Li

Asymmetric coupling amplitudes effectively create an imaginary gauge field, which induces a non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect. Nonzero imaginary magnetic flux invalidates the bulk-boundary correspondence and leads to a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 L. Jin , Z. Song

Dissipation in open systems enriches the possible symmetries of the Hamiltonians beyond the Hermitian framework allowing the possibility of novel non-Hermitian topological phases, which exhibit long-living end states that are protected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Wojciech Brzezicki , Matti Silveri , Marcin Płodzień , Francesco Massel , Timo Hyart

The interplay between dissipation, topology and sensitivity to boundary conditions has recently attracted tremendous amounts of attention at the level of effective non-Hermitian descriptions. Here we exactly solve a quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Fan Yang , Qing-Dong Jiang , Emil J. Bergholtz

Topological semimetals exhibit protected band crossings in momentum space, accompanied by corresponding surface states. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians introduce geometry-sensitive features that dissolve this bulk-boundary correspondence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Megan Schoenzeit , Chang Shu , Kai Zhang , Kai Sun

Systems with non-Hermitian skin effects are very sensitive to the imposed boundary conditions and lattice size, and thus an important question is whether non-Hermitian skin effects can survive when deviating from the open boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Cui-Xian Guo , Chun-Hui Liu , Xiao-Ming Zhao , Yanxia Liu , Shu Chen

We investigate theoretically tunable non-Hermitian skin effect in systems with gain and loss, and find that bipolar (quadripolar) non-Hermitian skin effect characterized by topological invariants in one (two)-dimensional system. We also…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Wen-Cheng Jiang , Hong Wu , Jian Li , Qing-Xu Li , Jia-Ji Zhu

Exploring topological phases in non-Hermitian systems has attracted significant recent attention. One intriguing question is how topological edge states compete with the non-Hermitian skin effect. Here, we report the experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Chan Tang , Huanhuan Yang , Lingling Song , Xianglong Yao , Peng Yan , Yunshan Cao

The emergence of the non-Hermitian skin effect, distinguished by the exponential localization of bulk states onto boundaries in open systems, has redefined the conventional band theory. It can be established through the generalized…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiuchun Meng , Lichao Sun , Xiumei Wang , Dandan Zhu , Xingping Zhou

Understanding the extreme sensitivity of the eigenvalues of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians to the boundary conditions is of great importance when analyzing non-Hermitian systems, as it appears generically and is intimately connected to the skin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Elisabet Edvardsson , Eddy Ardonne

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) undermines the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) since it results in a distinct bulk spectrum in open-boundary systems compared to the periodic counterpart. Using the non-Hermitian (NH)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Yi-Xin Xiao , Zhao-Qing Zhang , C. T. Chan

Topological theory predicts the necessary conditions for robust dimensional reduction in a host of quantum and classical systems. Models have recently been proposed for stochastic systems which describe many biological and chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-14 Aleksandra Nelson , Evelyn Tang

Critical edge states appear at the bulk gap closing points of topological transitions. Their emergence signify the existence of topologically nontrivial critical points, whose descriptions fall outside the scope of gapped topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Longwen Zhou , Rujia Jing , Shenlin Wu

Open quantum systems provide a plethora of exotic topological phases of matter that has no Hermitian counterpart. Non-Hermitian skin effect, macroscopic collapse of bulk states to the boundary, has been extensively studied in various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-15 Beom Hyun Kim , Jae-Ho Han , Moon Jip Park