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As a distinctive feature unique to non-Hermitian systems, non-Hermitian skin effect displays fruitful exotic phenomena in one or higher dimensions, especially when conventional topological phases are involved. Among them, hybrid…

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The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian describes the effective dynamics of a system coupled to a continuously measured bath, and can exhibit anti-unitary symmetries that give rise to exceptional points and broken phases with complex eigenvalues,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sejal Ahuja , Keshav Das Agarwal , Aditi Sen De

The non-Hermitian skin effect refers to the accumulation of eigenstates near the boundary in open boundary lattice models, which can be systematically characterized using the non-Bloch band theory. Here, we apply the non-Bloch band theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Bo Li , He-Ran Wang , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

One of the most pronounced non-Hermitian phenomena is the non-Hermitian skin effect, which refers to the exponential localization of bulk eigenstates near the boundaries of non-Hermitian systems. Whereas non-Bloch band theory has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Yu-Min Hu , Yin-Quan Huang , Wen-Tan Xue , Zhong Wang

Localization of a macroscopic number of eigenstates on a real-space boundary, known as the non-Hermitian skin effect, is one of the striking topological features emerging from non-Hermiticity. Realizing this effect typically requires…

Exceptional points and skin effect, as the two distinct hallmark features unique to the non-Hermitian physics, have each attracted enormous interests. Recent theoretical works reveal that the topologically nontrivial exceptional points can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Qiuyan Zhou , Jien Wu , Zhenhang Pu , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Weiyin Deng , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

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

Parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, originally conceived for non-Hermitian open quantum systems, has opened an excitingly new avenue for the coherent control of light. By tailoring optical gain and loss in integrated photonic structures,…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-11 Junpeng Hou , Zhitong Li , Qing Gu , Chuanwei Zhang

We propose an ultracold-atom setting where a fermionic superfluidity with attractive s-wave interaction is uploaded in a non-Hermitian Lieb optical lattice. The existence of a real-energy flat band solution is revealed. We show that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-18 Peng He , Hai-Tao Ding , Shi-Liang Zhu

Non-Hermiticity appears ubiquitously in various open classical and quantum systems and enriches classification of topological phases. However, the role of nonsymmorphic symmetry, crystalline symmetry accompanying fractional lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Daichi Nakamura , Yutaro Tanaka , Ken Shiozaki , Kohei Kawabata

In the presence of non-Hermitian skin effect, non-Hermitian lattices generally have complex-valued eigenenergies under periodic boundary condition, but they can have non-Bloch PT symmetry and therefore completely real eigenenergies under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Fei Song , Hong-Yi Wang , Zhong Wang

We show that two-dimensional non-Hermitian photonic crystals made of lossy material can exhibit non-trivial point gap topology in terms of topological winding in its complex frequency band structure. Such crystals can be either made of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Janet Zhong , Kai Wang , Yubin Park , Viktar Asadchy , Charles C. Wojcik , Avik Dutt , Shanhui Fan

The finding of non-Hermitian skin effect has revolutionized our understanding of non-Hermitian topological phases, where the usual bulk-boundary correspondence is broken and new topological phases specific to non-Hermitian system are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Weiwei Zhu , Linhu Li

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and nonlinearity can both delocalize topological modes (TMs) from the interface. However, the NHSE requires precise parameter tuning, while nonlinearity in Hermitian systems results in partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Zhao-Fan Cai , Yu-Chun Wang , Yu-Ran Zhang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Standard scaling theory dictates that disorder leads to immediate localization in one-dimensional Hermitian systems. We demonstrate that non-Hermitian topology fundamentally alters this paradigm, protecting transport up to a substantial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-12 Ali Tozar

Silicon photonics has been studied as an integratable optical platform where numerous applicable devices and systems are created based on modern physics and state-of-the-art nanotechnologies. The implementation of quantum mechanics has been…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-01 Changqing Wang , Zhoutian Fu , Lan Yang

Due to the fundamental position of spin-orbit coupled ultracold atoms in the simulation of topological insulators, the gain/loss effects on these systems should be evaluated when considering the measurement or the coupling to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-20 Zhi-Cong Xu , Ziyu Zhou , Enhong Cheng , Li-Jun Lang , Shi-Liang Zhu

Non-Hermitian models describe the physics of ubiquitous open systems with gain and loss. One intriguing aspect of non-Hermitian models is their inherent topology that can produce intriguing boundary phenomena like resilient higher-order…

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit a distinctive phenomenon known as the non-Hermitian skin effect, where an extensive number of eigenstates become localized at the boundaries of a lattice with open boundaries. While the spectral winding number…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-17 Wuping Yang , H. Huang