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Non-Hermitian non-reciprocal systems are known to be extremely sensitive to boundary conditions, exhibiting diverse localizing behaviors and spectrum structures when translational invariance is locally broken, either by tuning the boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Yanxia Liu , Yumeng Zeng , Linhu Li , Shu Chen

We explore anomalous skin effects at non-Hermitian impurities by studying their interplay with potential disorder and by exactly solving a minimal lattice model. A striking feature of the solvable single-impurity model is that the presence…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-06 Paolo Molignini , Oscar Arandes , Emil J. Bergholtz

The non-Hermitian skin effect is fundamentally characterized by its sensitivity to boundary conditions, reflected in changes to the energy spectrum and boundary-localized eigenstates. Here, we demonstrate that a spatially inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zheng Wei , Ji-Yao Fan , Kui Cao , Xin-Ran Ma , Cui-Xian Guo , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-Peng Kou

The problem of a single Hermitian impurity has long served as a cornerstone in condensed matter physics, offering fundamental insights into the mechanisms of Anderson localization. Yet, despite the increased interest in the spectral and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-24 E. T. Kokkinakis , I. Komis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

We introduce a dissipative lattice gauge model that exhibits the many-body version of the non-Hermitian skin effect. The dissipative couplings between dynamical gauge fields on the lattice links and the surrounding environment generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Yu-Min Hu , Zijian Wang , Biao Lian , Zhong Wang

We study the open XXZ spin chain with a PT-symmetric non-Hermitian boundary field. We find an interaction-induced scale-free non-Hermitian skin effect by using the coordinate Bethe ansatz. The steady state and the ground state in the PT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 He-Ran Wang , Bo Li , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

This paper shows that the skin effect in systems of non-Hermitian subwavelength resonators is robust with respect to random imperfections in the system. The subwavelength resonators are highly contrasting material inclusions that resonate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Ping Liu

The non-Hermitian skin effect, i.e. eigenstate condensation at the edges in lattices with open boundaries, is an exotic manifestation of non-Hermitian systems. In Bloch theory, an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is generally used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Stefano Longhi

The non-Hermitian skin effect is an intriguing physical phenomenon, in which all eigen-modes of a non-Hermitian lattice become localized at boundary regions. While such an exotic behavior has been demonstrated in various physical platforms,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mathieu Padlewski , Romain Fleury , Hervé Lissek

Typically, scaling up the size of a system does not change the shape of its energy spectrum, other than making it denser. Exceptions, however, occur in the new phenomenon of non-Hermitian skin criticality, where closely competing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Xiaoyu Cheng , Hui Jiang , Jun Chen , Lei Zhang , Yee Sin Ang , Ching Hua Lee

A non-Hermitian topological insulator is fundamentally different from conventional topological insulators. The non-Hermitian skin effect arises in a nonreciprocal tight binding lattice with open edges. In this case, not only topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 C. Yuce

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

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), characterized by the accumulation of a macroscopic number of bulk states at system boundaries, is a hallmark of non-Hermitian physics. However, effective control of skin-mode localization in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-09 Zhao-Fan Cai , Yang Li , Yu-Ran Zhang , Xiaomin Wei , Zhongmin Yang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

In this work, we explore interesting consequences arising from the coupling between a clean non-Hermitian chain with skin localization and a delocalized chain of the same length under various boundary conditions (BCs). We reveal that in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sen Mu , Longwen Zhou , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

The behavior of higher-order boundary states in non-Hermitian systems is elusive and thereby finding the mechanism behind these states is both essential and significant. Here, we uncover a novel mechanism that induces anomalous higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Hui-Qiang Liang , Zuxuan Ou , Linhu Li , Guo-Fu Xu

Non-Hermitian systems possess exotic localization phenomena beyond their Hermitian counterparts, exhibiting massive accumulation of eigenstates at the system boundaries with different scaling behaviors. In this study, we investigate two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Shu Long , Linhu Li

We revisit the fate of the skin modes in many-body non-Hermitian fermionic systems. Contrary to the single-particle case, the many-body ground state cannot exhibit an exponential localization of all eigenstates due to the Pauli exclusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Faisal Alsallom , Loïc Herviou , Oleg V. Yazyev , Marta Brzezińska

The explorations of non-Hermiticity have been devoted to investigate the disorder-induced many-body localization (MBL). However, the sensitivity of the spatial boundary conditions and the interplay of the non-Hermitian skin effect with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-09 Kuldeep Suthar , Yi-Cheng Wang , Yi-Ping Huang , H. H. Jen , Jhih-Shih You

In this paper, we systematically investigate the impurity-induced bound states in 1D non-Hermitian systems. By establishing an exact relationship between impurity potential and bound-state energy, we determine the minimum impurity potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Zixi Fang , Chen Fang , Kai Zhang

In contrast with extended Bloch waves, a single particle can become spatially localized due to the so-called skin effect originating from non-Hermitian pumping. Here we show that in kinetically-constrained many-body systems, the skin effect…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-04 Ruizhe Shen , Fang Qin , Jean-Yves Desaules , Zlatko Papić , Ching Hua Lee