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Discrete-time quantum walks are known to exhibit exotic topological states and phases. Physical realization of quantum walks in a noisy environment may destroy these phases. We investigate the behavior of topological states in quantum walks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Vikash Mittal , Aswathy Raj , Sanjib Dey , Sandeep K. Goyal

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

Geometric phases play a fundamental role in understanding quantum topology, yet extending the Uhlmann phase to non-Hermitian systems poses significant challenges due to parameter-dependent inner product structures. In this work, we develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Xu-Yang Hou , Xin Wang , Hao Guo

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

The current understanding of the role of topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems and its far-reaching physical consequences observable in a range of dissipative settings are reviewed. In particular, how the paramount and genuinely NH concept…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Emil J. Bergholtz , Jan Carl Budich , Flore K. Kunst

Quantum theory can be formulated with certain non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. An anti-linear involution, denoted by PT, is a symmetry of such Hamiltonians. In the PT-symmetric regime the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is related to a Hermitian one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-02 Daniel Areán , Karl Landsteiner , Ignacio Salazar Landea

Criticality in non-Hermitian systems unveils unique phase transitions and scaling behaviors beyond Hermitian paradigms, offering new insights into the interplay between gain/loss, non-reciprocity, and complex energy spectra. In this paper,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Yi Qin , Yee Sin Ang , Ching Hua Lee , Linhu Li

Non-Hermitian effects could trigger spectrum, localization and topological phase transitions in quasiperiodic lattices. We propose a non-Hermitian extension of the Maryland model, which forms a paradigm in the study of localization and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Longwen Zhou , Yongjian Gu

The high sensitivity of the spectrum and wavefunctions to boundary conditions, termed the non-Hermitian skin effect, represents a fundamental aspect of non-Hermitian systems. While it endows non-Hermitian systems with unprecedented physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Nan Cheng , Chang Shu , Kai Zhang , Xiaoming Mao , Kai Sun

Topological phases of matter commonly feature protected states at their boundaries. Transferring this protection to time-metamaterials is extremely challenging, as it requires the generation of an abrupt interface between two topologically…

A lossy quantum system harboring the non-Hermitian skin effect can in certain conditions exhibit anomalously high loss at the boundaries of the system compared to the bulk, a phenomenon termed the non-Hermitian edge burst. We uncover…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Jin Ming Koh , Wen-Tan Xue , Tommy Tai , Dax Enshan Koh , Ching Hua Lee

Non-Hermiticity can vary the topology of system, induce topological phase transition, and even invalidate the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we show the introducing of non-Hermiticity without affecting the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 K. L. Zhang , H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

In this work, we demonstrate the presence of an anomalous non-Hermitian skin effects which decay from both ends of a system consisting of two coupled Hermitian chains induced by non-reciprocal inter-chain cross-coupling. Another intriguing…

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

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

The skin effect, where bulk modes collapse into boundary modes, is a key phenomenon in topological non-Hermitian systems, has been predominantly studied in spinless systems. Recent studies illustrate the magnetic suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Wenna Zhang , Yutao Hu , Hongyi Zhang , Xiang Liu , Georgios Veronis , Yuecheng Shen , Yin Huang , Wenchen Luo , Andrea Alu`

Understanding the interplay between quantum coherence and non-Hermitian features would enable the devising of quantum technologies based on dissipative systems. In turn, quantum coherence can be characterized in terms of the language of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Diego Paiva Pires , Tommaso Macrì

The synergy between non-Hermitian concepts and topological ideas have led to very fruitful activity in the recent years. Their interplay has resulted in a wide variety of new non-Hermitian topological phenomena being discovered. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Ayan Banerjee , Ronika Sarkar , Soumi Dey , Awadhesh Narayan

Topological phases and transitions are of fundamental importance in physics, which provide a deep insight into the understanding of materials. Recently, non-Abelian topological transitions have been investigated in Hermitian systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yunhan Wang , Yang Wu , Xiangyu Ye , Chang-Kui Duan , Ya Wang , Haiping Hu , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

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…