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When light waves propagate through disordered photonic lattices, they can eventually become localized due to multiple scattering effects. Here we show experimentally that while the evolution and localization of the photon density…

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Wave localization is a fundamental phenomenon that appears universally in both natural materials and artificial structures and plays a crucial role in understanding the various physical properties of a system. Usually, a localized state has…

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How topological defects affect the dynamics of particles hopping between lattice sites of a distorted, two-dimensional crystal is addressed. Perturbation theory and numerical simulations show that weak, short-ranged topological disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ligang Chen , Michael W. Deem

A complete methodology, based on a two-scale asymptotic approach, that enables the homogenisation of elastic lattices at non-zero frequencies is developed. Elastic lattices are distinguished from scalar lattices in that two or more types of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 D. J. Colquitt , R. V. Craster , M. Makwana

Models of disorder with a direction (constant imaginary vector-potential) are considered. These non-Hermitian models can appear as a result of computation for models of statistical physics using transfer matrix technique or describe…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 K. B. Efetov

The interaction between non-reciprocity and disorder-free localization has emerged as a fascinating open question. Here, we explore the effects of pseudo mobility edges (MEs) along with different types of eigenstates in a one-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-30 Yu-Jun Zhao , Han-Ze Li , Xuyang Huang , Shan-Zhong Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

We investigate localization-delocalization transition in one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasiperiodic lattices with exponential short-range hopping, which possess parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. The localization transition induced by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-27 Yanxia Liu , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Junpeng Cao , Shu Chen

Loss-induced transmission in waveguides, and reversed pump dependence in lasers, are two prominent examples of counter-intuitive effects in non-Hermitian systems with patterned gain and loss. By analyzing the eigenvalue dynamics of complex…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Alexander Cerjan , Shanhui Fan

The spectral, dynamical and topological properties of physical systems described by non-Hermitian (including $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric) Hamiltonians are deeply modified by the appearance of exceptional points and spectral singularities. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Longhi , G. Della Valle

We analyze the scattering dynamics and spectrum of a quantum particle on a tight-binding lattice subject to a non-Hermitian (purely imaginary) local potential. The reflection, transmission and absorption coefficients are studied as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Phillip C. Burke , Jan Wiersig , Masudul Haque

We introduce a discrete lossy system, into which a double hot spot (HS) is inserted, i.e., two mutually symmetric sites carrying linear gain and cubic nonlinearity. The system can be implemented as an array of optical or plasmonic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-16 K. W. Chow , Edwin Ding , Boris A. Malomed , A. Y. S. Tang

We present a numerical study of the spectrum of the Laplacian in an unbounded strip with PT-symmetric boundary conditions. We focus on non-Hermitian features of the model reflected in an unusual dependence of the eigenvalues below the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Krejcirik , Milos Tater

We study the distribution of eigenfrequency spacings (the so-called level spacing statistics) for light in a two-dimensional (2D) disordered photonic crystal composed of circular dielectric (silicon) rods in air. Disorder introduces…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-05 Jose M. Escalante , Sergey E. Skipetrov

Non-Hermitian systems enable continuous and smooth tuning of topological phases through externally controllable loss/gain parameters. Without altering the intrinsic lattice structure, merely fine-tuning the intensity or spatial distribution…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Shuanghuizhi Li , Bowei Wu , Tingfeng Ma , Jiaqi Zhang , Chenbowen Lou

We study an anisotropic two-dimensional non-Hermitian Lieb lattice, where the staggered gain and loss present in the horizontal and vertical directions, respectively. The intra-cell nonreciprocal coupling generates magnetic flux enclosed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 L. C. Xie , H. C. Wu , X. Z. Zhang , L. Jin , Z. Song

The non-Hermitian systems exhibit extreme sensitivity to the boundary conditions. The change in the eigenspectrum with tunning boundary parameter is intimately connected to the non-Hermitian skin effect. The single-particle systems are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-21 Kuldeep Suthar

Hyperuniform disorder is a type of correlated disorder characterized by vanishing spectral density at small wavevectors, making the configuration effectively homogeneous on long length scales. In photonics, hyperuniform disorder is…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-05 Zeyu Zhang , Koorosh Sadri , Brian Gould , Mikael Rechtsman

Non-Hermitian topological matter provides a platform for engineering phenomena that go beyond the capabilities of Hermitian systems, enabling the use of losses to engineer topological phenomena. Non-Hermitian models often rely on artificial…

We study the localization properties of the two-dimensional Lieb lattice and its extensions in the presence of disorder using transfer matrix method and finite-size scaling. We find that all states in the Lieb lattice and its extensions are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-05 Xiaoyu Mao , Jie Liu , Jianxin Zhong , Rudolf A. Römer

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,…

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