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The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a hallmark of non-Hermitian system, yet its generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ) description is restricted to periodic systems. We develop a site-resolved theory via a local scaling transformation (LST),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Chen-Hao Zhao , Jia-Rui Li , Yuping Tian , Wei-Jiang Gong

One of the unique features of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians is the non-Hermitian skin effect, namely that the eigenstates are exponentially localized at the boundary of the system. For open quantum systems, a short-time evolution can often be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-01 Fei Song , Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

The non-Hermitian skin effect is nonreciprocity-induced localization phenomena in which a macroscopic number of eigenstates accumulate anomalously at the boundary, accompanied by the extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Kohei Kawabata

In recent research, it has been shown that non-Hermitian systems exhibit sensitivity to boundaries, and it is caused by the non-Hermitian skin effect. In this work, we construct the non-Bloch band theory in bosonic Bogoliubov--de Gennes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami

The development of non-Hermitian topological band theory has led to observations of novel topological phenomena in effectively classical, driven and dissipative systems. However, for open quantum many-body systems, the absence of a ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Sharareh Sayyad , Jinlong Yu , Adolfo G. Grushin , Lukas M. Sieberer

As one indispensable type of nonreciprocal mechanism, a system with temporal modulations is intrinsically open in the physical sense and inevitably non-Hermitian, but the space and time degrees of freedom are nonseparable in a large variety…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-14 Haozhi Ding , Kun Ding

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

Composite topological phases with intriguing topology like M${\"o}$bius strips emerge in sublattice symmetric non-Hermitian systems due to spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry at some parameter regime. While these phases have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Ritu Nehra , Dibyendu Roy

Real-valued band structures are foundational to analyzing periodic systems within the Hermitian description and have been experimentally well-established over recent decades. In contrast, non-Hermitian systems exhibit complex band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jia-Xin Zhong , Jing Lin , Kai Chen , Jing Lu , Kun Ding , Yun Jing

The relation between chiral edge modes and bulk Chern numbers of quantum Hall insulators is a paradigmatic example of bulk-boundary correspondence. We show that the chiral edge modes are not strictly tied to the Chern numbers defined by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Shunyu Yao , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

Non-Hermitian skin effect, which is a unique feature of non-Hermitian systems, exhibits the formation of an extensive number of boundary modes under open boundary conditions. However, its manifestation in higher dimensions remains elusive.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Dipendu Halder , Srijata Lahiri , Saurabh Basu

In two- and higher-dimensional non-Hermitian lattices, systems can exhibit geometry-dependent bands, where the spectrum and eigenstates under open boundary conditions depend on the bulk geometry even in the thermodynamic limit. Although…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Chenyang Wang , Jinghui Pi , Qinxin Liu , Yaohua Li , Yong-Chun Liu

Waves in a variety of fields in physics, such as mechanics, optics, spintronics, and nonlinear systems, obey generalized eigenvalue equations. To study non-Hermitian physics of those systems, in this paper, we construct a non-Bloch band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Kazuki Yokomizo , Taiki Yoda , Yuto Ashida

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to unique topological phases without Hermitian analogs. However, the effective field theory has yet to be established. Here, we develop a field-theoretical description of the intrinsic non-Hermitian topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu

Non-Hermitian topological phases exhibit a number of exotic features that have no Hermitian counterparts, including the skin effect and breakdown of the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we implement the non-Hermitian…

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to distinctive topological phenomena absent in Hermitian systems. However, connection between such intrinsic non-Hermitian topology and Hermitian topology has remained largely elusive. Here, considering the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Shu Hamanaka , Tsuneya Yoshida , Kohei Kawabata

Bulk-boundary correspondence, connecting the bulk topology and the edge states, is an essential principle of the topological phases. However, the bulk-boundary correspondence is broken down in general non-Hermitian systems. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Yang Cao , Yang Li , Xiaosen Yang

The complex energy bands of non-Hermitian systems braid in momentum space even in one dimension. Here, we reveal that the non-Hermitian braiding underlies the Hermitian topological physics with chiral symmetry under a general framework that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 W. B. Rui , Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the properties of topological models, leading to exotic features such as the non-Hermitian skin effects and non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence that have no counterparts in Hermitian settings. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Kunkun Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Non-Hermitian physics has emerged as a rapidly advancing field of research, revealing a range of novel phenomena and potential applications. Traditional non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are typically simulated by constructing asymmetric couplings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Huawei Zhao , Xinlei Liu , Xinyao Huang , Guofeng Zhang