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Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is one of the most fundamental phenomena in non-Hermitian physics. Although it is established that one-dimensional NHSE originates from the nontrivial spectral winding topology, the topological origin behind…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Qicheng Zhang , Yufei Leng , Liwei Xiong , Yuzeng Li , Kun Zhang , Liangjun Qi , Chunyin Qiu

The complex eigenenergies and non-orthogonal eigenstates of non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique topological phenomena that cannot appear in Hermitian systems. Representative examples are the non-Hermitian skin effect and exceptional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Jung-Wan Ryu , Jae-Ho Han , Chang-Hwan Yi , Hee Chul Park , Moon Jip Park

The non-Hermitian edge burst is a phenomenon observed in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics, characterized by a significant accumulation of loss at the boundaries of a system. We present an example of the edge burst effect in a lossy lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 G. Sen , C. Yuce

Non-Hermitian skin effects are conventionally manifested as boundary localization of eigenstates in linear systems. In nonlinear settings, however, where eigenstates are no longer well defined, it becomes unclear how skin effects should be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Shu Hamanaka

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a novel phenomenon appearing in non-Hermitian systems. Here, we report the experimental observation of NHSE. Different from the previous non-reciprocal circuit implementation scheme using logic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-17 Luhong Su , Hui Jiang , Zhan Wang , Shu Chen , Dongning Zheng

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

We study the time evolution processes of non-Hermitian systems under the open boundary condition and confirm that the dynamical skin effect exists in non-Hermitian systems analytically, and unveil the mechanism of its formation, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Haoshu Li , Shaolong Wan

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a phenomenon whereby certain non-Hermitian lattice Hamiltonians, particularly those with nonreciprocal couplings, can host an extensive number of eigenmodes condensed to the boundary, called skin…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Qiang Wang , Changyan Zhu , You Wang , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong

Non-Hermitian (NH) crystals, quasicrystals and amorphous network display an accumulation of a macroscopic number of states near one of its specific interfaces with vacuum, such as edge, surface, hinge or corner. This phenomenon is known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Sourav Manna , Bitan Roy

Certain non-Hermitian systems exhibit the skin effect, whereby the wavefunctions become exponentially localized at one edge of the system. Such exponential amplification of wavefunction has received significant attention due to its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Haowei Xu , Uroš Delić , Guoqing Wang , Changhao Li , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

Non-Hermitian skin effect denotes the exponential localization of a large number of eigen-states in a non-Hermitian lattice under open boundary conditions. Such a non-Hermiticity-induced skin effect can offset the penetration depth of…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-17 Qinghui Yan , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang

Non-Hermitian lattices can host the non-Hermitian skin effect, a boundary-induced collapse of all bulk eigenstates into exponentially localized edge modes. This effect underlies anomalous bulk-boundary correspondence and remarkable…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rohith Srikanth , Sashank Kaushik Sridhar , Avik Dutt

Non-Hermitian effects have emerged as a new paradigm for the manipulation of phases of matter that profoundly changes our understanding of non-equilibrium systems, introducing novel concepts such as exceptional points and spectral topology,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Zhen Li , Li-Wei Wang , Xulong Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Guancong Ma , Jian-Hua Jiang

Band structures of metamaterials described by a nonlinear eigenvalue problem are beyond the existing topological band theory. In this paper, we analyze non-Hermitian topology under the nonlinearity of eigenvalues. Specifically, we elucidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tsuneya Yoshida , Takuma Isobe , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

We demonstrate that crystal defects can act as a probe of intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. In particular, in point-gapped systems with periodic boundary conditions, a pair of dislocations may induce a non-Hermitian skin effect, where an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Frank Schindler , Abhinav Prem

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to unique topological phases that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Such intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases appear even in one dimension while no topological phases appear in one-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu

The dislocation skin effect exhibits the capacity of topological defects to trap an extensive number of modes in two-dimensional non-Hermitian systems. Similar to the corresponding skin effects caused by system boundaries, this phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Nisarg Chadha , Ali G. Moghaddam , Jeroen van den Brink , Cosma Fulga

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

We investigate non-Hermitian elastic lattices characterized by non-local feedback control interactions. In one-dimensional lattices, we show that the proportional control interactions produce complex dispersion relations characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Matheus I. N. Rosa , Massimo Ruzzene

This work uncovers a new class of criticality where eigenenergies and eigenstates of non-Hermitian lattice systems jump discontinuously across a critical point in the thermodynamic limit, unlike established Hermitian and non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Sen Mu , Jiangbin Gong