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Advances in topological photonics and non-Hermitian optics have drastically changed our perception on how interdisciplinary concepts may empower unprecedented applications. Bridging the two areas could uncover the reciprocity between…

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

The interplay between topology and nonlinearity represents a central challenge in modern physics. Here, we investigate this interplay by considering a synthetic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice with all-to-all nonlocal interactions. We find…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-06 Chong-Xiao Chen , Zheng-Wei Zhou , Han Pu , Xi-Wang Luo

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit anomalous scaling, a striking departure from conventional bulk laws, rooted in the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Here, we experimentally uncover this scaling and demonstrate its active control in a temporal…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-30 Shulin Wang , Jiawei He , Zhiyuan Yang , Stefano Longhi , Peng Xue

We show for the first time that highly localized in-plane breathers can propagate in specific directions with minimal lateral spreading in a model 2-D hexagonal non-linear lattice. The lattice is subject to an on-site potential in addition…

patt-sol · Physics 2016-08-15 J. L. Marín , J. C. Eilbeck , F. M. Russell

The spectral and transport properties of a non-Hermitian tight-binding lattice with unidirectional hopping are theoretically investigated in three different geometrical settings. It is shown that, while for the infinitely-extended (open)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Stefano Longhi

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit many peculiar dynamic behaviors which never showed up in Hermitian systems. The existence of spectral singularity (SS) for a non-Hermitian scattering center provides a lasing mechanism in the context of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 K. L. Zhang , P. Wang , Z. Song

We consider an N-level non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with an exceptional point of order N. We define adiabatic equivalence in such systems and explore topological phase. We show that the topological exceptional states appear at the interface of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 C. Yuce

We study the topological properties of Bose-Mott insulators in one-dimensional non-Hermitian superlattices, which may serve as effective Hamiltonians for cold atomic optical systems with either two-body loss or one-body loss. We find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 Zhihao Xu , Shu Chen

Non-Hermitian topology provides a research frontier for exploring topological phenomena, revealing novel topological effects and driving the development of emergent materials and platforms. Here, we explore the non-Hermitian Chern insulator…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-13 Yi-Ling Zhang , Li-Wei Wang , Yang Liu , Zhao-Xian Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

We study the dynamics of the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattice initialized such that a very long transitory period of time in which standard Boltzmann statistics is insufficient is reached. Our study of the nonlinear system locked…

patt-sol · Physics 2015-06-26 K. Ø. Rasmussen , S. Aubry , A. R. Bishop , G. P. Tsironis

We theoretically investigate nonlinear localized excitations in a Heisenberg honeycomb ferromagnet with a second neighbour Dzialozinskii-Moriya interaction, which has been proved to possess the topological band structure. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Wenhui Feng , Bing Tang , Lanjun Wu , Peng Kong , Chao Yang , Lei Wang , Ke Deng

Non-Hermitian topological systems have attracted a lot of research activities in recent times, both theoretically and experimentally, due to their unique physical properties and association with open quantum systems. We show that modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Saubhik Sarkar , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Abolfazl Bayat

Quantum nonlinear optics is a quickly growing field with large technological promise, at the same time involving complex and novel many-body phenomena. In the usual scenario, optical nonlinearities originate from the interactions between…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-13 Kieran A. Fraser , Francesco Piazza

Mode-locked lasers play the role of the ideal testbeds for studying self-coherent structures, dissipative solitons, with stable spatiotemporal profiles supported by the balance between dispersion and nonlinearity. However, under some…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-18 Zhiwei Huang , Sergey Sergeyev , Qing Wang , Hani Kbashi , Dmitrii Stoliarov , Qianqian Huang , Yuze Dai , Zhijun Yan , Chengbo Mou

The erratic nature of chaotic behavior is thought to erode the stability of periodic behavior, including topological oscillations. However, we discover that in the presence of chaos, non-trivial topology not only endures but also provides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Haydar Sahin , Hakan Akgün , Zhuo Bin Siu , S. M. Rafi-Ul-Islam , Jian Feng Kong , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Ching Hua Lee

We theoretically explore the dynamics of spatial solitons in nonlinear/interacting bosonic topological insulators. We employ a time-reversal broken Lieb-lattice analog of a Chern insulator and find that in the presence of a saturable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jeremy L. Marzuola , Mikael Rechtsman , Braxton Osting , Miguel Bandres

Solitons, typically resulting from a competition between band dispersion and nonlinearity, occur in lattices featuring the non-Hermitian skin effect as nonlinearity increases, accompanied by a transition in localization from linear skin…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-05 Shanyue Li , Mengying Hu , Jing Lin , Chen Fang , Zhensheng Tao , Kun Ding

The bulk-boundary correspondence is among the central issues of non-Hermitian topological states. We show that a previously overlooked `non-Hermitian skin effect' necessitates redefinition of topological invariants in a generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

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…