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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

Robust boundary states epitomize how deep physics can give rise to concrete experimental signatures with technological promise. Of late, much attention has focused on two distinct mechanisms for boundary robustness - topological protection,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Deyuan Zou , Tian Chen , Wenjing He , Jiacheng Bao , Ching Hua Lee , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

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

In this study, we investigate the many-body non-Hermitian skin effect at finite temperatures in the thermodynamic limit. Our findings indicate an interesting correspondence between the non-Hermitian skin effect and a linear electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-07 Kui Cao , Qian Du , Su-Peng Kou

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

Non-Hermitian models with real eigenenergies are highly desirable for their stability. Yet, most of the currently known ones are constrained by symmetries such as PT-symmetry, which is incompatible with realizing some of the most exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Boxue Zhang , Qingya Li , Xiao Zhang , Ching Hua Lee

Skin effect, experimentally discovered in one dimension, describes the physical phenomenon that on an open chain, an extensive number of eigenstates of a non-Hermitian hamiltonian are localized at the end(s) of the chain. Here in two and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Kai Zhang , Zhesen Yang , Chen Fang

It is well known that non-Hermitian systems can be extremely sensitive to boundary conditions owing to non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Analogously, we investigate two boundary-sensitive $U(1)$ symmetric Lindbladians: one carries current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Xu Feng , Shu Chen

We investigate theoretically tunable non-Hermitian skin effect in systems with gain and loss, and find that bipolar (quadripolar) non-Hermitian skin effect characterized by topological invariants in one (two)-dimensional system. We also…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Wen-Cheng Jiang , Hong Wu , Jian Li , Qing-Xu Li , Jia-Ji Zhu

We develop a theory of edge states based on the Hermiticity of Hamiltonian operators for tight-binding models defined on lattices with boundaries. We describe Hamiltonians using shift operators which serve as differential operators in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 T. Fukui

A unique feature of non-Hermitian systems is the skin effect, which is the extreme sensitivity to the boundary conditions. Here, we reveal that the skin effect originates from intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. Such a topological origin not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

It is generally believed that the non-Hermitian effect (NHSE), due to its non-reciprocal nature, creates barriers for the appearance of impurity bound states. In this paper, we find that in two and higher dimensions, the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ao Yang , Zixi Fang , Kai Zhang , Chen Fang

Although the non-Bloch band theory is a milestone in elaborating bulk energy bands of non-Hermitian systems under the open-boundary condition (OBC), vital issues related to multivalued functions of non-Hermitian energy bands remain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Yongxu Fu , Yi Zhang

One of the most fascinating phenomena in non-Hermitian systems is the extensive accumulation of the bulk eigenstates under open-boundary conditions which is known as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NSHE). Here, we propose a switchable NHSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Md. Saddam Hossain Razo , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The non-Hermitian skin effects are representative phenomena intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems: the energy spectra and eigenstates under the open boundary condition (OBC) drastically differ from those under the periodic boundary condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Yusuke O. Nakai , Nobuyuki Okuma , Daichi Nakamura , Kenji Shimomura , Masatoshi Sato

Non-Hermitian systems generally host complex spectra that bring unique spectral topologies, leading to the spectral braiding and non-Hermitian skin effect. The experimental exploration of non-Hermitian physics is mainly concentrated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Xiangru Chen , Jien Wu , Xingyu Chen , Zhenhang Pu , Yejian Hu , Jiuyang Lu , Manzhu Ke , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique boundary phenomena absent in their Hermitian counterparts, most notably the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). In this work, we explore a lattice model consisting of two coupled non-reciprocal chains,…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yixuan Li , Linhu Li , Zhihao Xu

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

We study non-hermitian many-body physics in the interacting Hatano-Nelson model with open boundary condition. The violation of reciprocity, resulting from an imaginary vector potential, induces the non-hermitian skin-effect and causes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-04 B. Dóra , C. P. Moca

The bulk-boundary or bulk-edge correspondence is a principle relating surface confined states to the topological classification of the bulk. By combining non-Hermitian ingredients in terms of gain or loss with media that violate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Penglin Gao , Morten Willatzen , Johan Christensen