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Skin effect that all eigenmodes within a frequency range become edge states is dictated by the topological properties of complex eigenvalues unique in non-Hermitian systems. The prevailing attempts to realize such a fascinating effect are…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-04 Zhening Fang , Mengying Hu , Lei Zhou , Kun Ding

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

We study the coupled even number of microcavities with the balanced gain and loss between any pair of their neighboring components. The effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for such structure has the cyclic permutation-time symmetry with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Bing He , Liu Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Min Xiao

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has been intensely investigated over the past few years and has unveiled new topological phases, which have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Here we consider the hybridization between the NHSE in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Ruiqi Bao , Huawen Xu , Wouter Verstraelen , Timothy C. H. Liew

We investigate a one-dimensional superconducting lattice that realizes all internal symmetries permitted in non-Hermitian systems, characterized by nonreciprocal hopping, onsite dissipation, and $s$-wave singlet pairing in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Chuo-Kai Chang , Kazuma Saito , Nobuyuki Okuma , Hsien-Chung Kao , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Non-Hermiticity can vary the topology of system, induce topological phase transition, and even invalidate the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we show the introducing of non-Hermiticity without affecting the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 K. L. Zhang , H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

The discovery of topological phases in non-Hermitian open classical and quantum systems challenges our current understanding of topological order. Non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique features with no counterparts in topological Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Stefano Longhi

Non-Hermitian skin effect is a basic phenomenon in non-Hermitian system, which means that an extensive number of eigenstates can be localized at the boundary. In this Letter, we systematically investigate the constraints from all internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Shu-Xuan Wang

In Hermitian topological systems, the bulk-boundary correspondence strictly constraints boundary transport to values determined by the topological properties of the bulk. We demonstrate that this constraint can be lifted in non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Bastian Höckendorf , Andreas Alvermann , Holger Fehske

We discuss a generalization of the non-Hermitian skin effect to finite-size photonic structures with neither gain nor loss in the bulk and purely real energy spectrum under periodic boundary conditions (PBC). We show that such systems can…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-09 Alexander Poddubny , Janet Zhong , Shanhui Fan

Non-Hermitian systems are known to possess unique singularities in the scattering spectra such as exceptional points, bound states in the continuum, Diabolic points, and anapole states, which are usually considered to be independent. Here,…

Dispersionless bands -- flatbands -- have been actively studied thanks to their interesting properties and sensitivity to perturbations, which makes them natural candidates for exotic states. In parallel non-Hermitian systems have attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Wulayimu Maimaiti , Alexei Andreanov

Multimode nonlinear optical systems are highly valued for their ability to withstand large amounts of optical power, transmit data with high bandwidth, perform physical computations, generate quantum correlations, and much more. For many of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jamison Sloan , Sachin Vaidya , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljačić

In this work we first show a simple approach to constructing non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with a real spectrum, which are \textit{not} obtained by a non-unitary transformation such as the imaginary gauge transformation. They are given,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Li Ge

One of the unique features of non-Hermitian~(NH) systems is the appearance of non-Hermitian degeneracies known as exceptional points~(EPs). The extensively studied defective EPs occur when the Hamiltonian becomes non-diagonalizable. Aside…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Sharareh Sayyad , Marcus Stalhammar , Lukas Rodland , Flore K. Kunst

Open quantum systems consisting of coupled bound and continuum states have been studied in a variety of physical systems, particularly within the scope of nuclear, atomic and molecular physics. In the open systems, the effects of the…

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) refers to that an extensive number of eigenstates of a non-Hermitian system are localized in open boundaries. Here we predict a universal phenomenon that with local particle-hole(-like) symmetry (PHS)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Zhi-Yuan Wang , Jian-Song Hong , Xiong-Jun Liu

We study a minimal non-Hermitian trimer with latent symmetry formed by a cospectral pair of sites embedded in a three-site network with nonreciprocal couplings. We show that cospectrality provides a structural latent-symmetry constraint,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Paulo A. Brandão

Time-independent scattering methods are widely employed to analyze transport in non-Hermitian systems. Their application, however, rests on a critical yet often overlooked assumption: that an incident wave is a pure superposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Chao Zheng

Non-Hermitian disordered systems have emerged as a central arena in modern physics, with ramifications spanning condensed matter, quantum, statistical, and high energy contexts. The same principles also underlie phenomena beyond physics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kohei Kawabata , Shinsei Ryu