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Amid the growing interest in non-Hermitian quantum systems, non-interacting models have received the most attention. Here, through the stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo method, we investigate non-Hermitian physics in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Shi-Xin Hu , Yongxu Fu , Yi Zhang

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 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

The non-Hermitian skin effect, nonreciprocity-induced anomalous localization of an extensive number of eigenstates, represents a hallmark of non-Hermitian topological systems with no analogs in Hermitian systems. Despite its significance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Kohei Kawabata , Daichi Nakamura

Quantum systems are often classified into Hermitian and non-Hermitian ones. Extraordinary non-Hermitian phenomena, ranging from the non-Hermitian skin effect to the supersensitivity to boundary conditions, have been widely explored. Whereas…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-25 Chenwei Lv , Ren Zhang , Zhengzheng Zhai , Qi Zhou

The interplay between non-Hermitian effects and topological insulators has become a frontier of research in non-Hermitian physics. However, the existence of a non-Hermitian skin effect for topological-protected edge states remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Xinran Ma , Kui Cao , Xiaoran Wang , Zheng Wei , Supeng Kou

Within the expanding field of non-Hermitian physics, non-Hermitian pumping has emerged as a key phenomenon, epitomized through the skin effect via extensive boundary mode accumulation modifying the conventional Bloch picture. Beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Ching Hua Lee , Linhu Li , Ronny Thomale , Jiangbin Gong

Non-Hermitian physics has added new ingredients to topological physics, leading to the rising frontier of non-Hermitian topological phases. In this study, we investigate Chern insulator phases emerging from non-Hermitian kagome models with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-13 Li-Wei Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Jian-Hua Jiang

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) refers to that an extensive number of eigenstates of a non-Hermitian system are localized in open boundaries. Here we predict a universal phenomenon that with local particle-hole(-like) symmetry (PHS)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Zhi-Yuan Wang , Jian-Song Hong , Xiong-Jun Liu

Recent years have seen remarkable development in open quantum systems effectively described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. A unique feature of non-Hermitian topological systems is the skin effect, anomalous localization of an extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-14 Kohei Kawabata , Tokiro Numasawa , Shinsei Ryu

In one dimension, strongly correlated gapless systems are highly constrained due to conformal invariance, leading to the decoupling of low energy degrees of freedom corresponding to different symmetry sectors. The most familiar example of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-16 Christopher Ekman , Emil J. Bergholtz , Paolo Molignini

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

We construct a two-dimensional, discrete-time quantum walk exhibiting non-Hermitian skin effects under open-boundary conditions. As a confirmation of the non-Hermitian bulk-boundary correspondence, we show that the emergence of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tianyu Li , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Wei Yi

Exploring topological phases in non-Hermitian systems has attracted significant recent attention. One intriguing question is how topological edge states compete with the non-Hermitian skin effect. Here, we report the experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Chan Tang , Huanhuan Yang , Lingling Song , Xianglong Yao , Peng Yan , Yunshan Cao

Solids built out of active components can exhibit non-reciprocal elastic coefficients that give rise to non-Hermitian wave phenomena. Here, we investigate non-Hermitian effects present at the boundary of two-dimensional active elastic media…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-16 Colin Scheibner , William T. M. Irvine , Vincenzo Vitelli

Non-Hermitian topological systems exhibit a plethora of unusual topological phenomena that are absent in the Hermitian systems. One of these key features is the extreme eigenstate localization of eigenstates, also known as non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Haydar Sahin , Ching Hua Lee , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The study of topological states has developed rapidly in electric circuits, which permits flexible fabrications of non-Hermitian systems by introducing non-Hermitian terms. Here, nonreciprocal coupling terms are realized by utilizing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Bin Liu , Yang Li , Bin Yang , Xiaopeng Shen , Yuting Yang , Zhi Hong Hang , Motohiko Ezawa

In this paper, we investigate the non-Hermitian skin effect in a semi-infinite Fock-state lattice, where the inherent coupling scales as \sqrt{n}. By analytically solving a non-uniform, non-reciprocal SSH model, we demonstrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Zhi Jiao Deng , Xing Yao Mi , Ruo Kun Cai , Chun Wang Wu , Ping Xing Chen

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

We investigate the non-Hermitian Haldane model on hyperbolic $\{8, 3\}$ and $\{12, 3\}$ lattices, and showcase its intriguing topological properties in the simultaneous presence of non-Hermitian effect and hyperbolic geometry. From bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Junsong Sun , Chang-An Li , Shiping Feng , Huaiming Guo