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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…

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A negative effective mass can be realized in quantum systems by engineering the dispersion relation. A powerful method is provided by spin-orbit coupling, which is currently at the center of intense research efforts. Here we measure an…

We study an atom-cavity hybrid system where fermionic atoms in a one-dimensional lattice are subject to a cavity-induced dynamic gauge potential. The gauge coupling leads to highly-degenerate steady states in which the fermions accumulate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-12 Haowei Li , Haojie Wu , Wei Zheng , Wei Yi

For decades, Hermiticity was considered an immutable axiom of quantum mechanics, essential for ensuring real energies and unitary evolution. This perspective has shifted radically, driven by the realization that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Federico Roccati , Federico Balducci

A system is non-Hermitian when it exchanges energy with its environment and non-reciprocal when it behaves differently upon the interchange of input and response. Within the field of metamaterial research on synthetic topological matter,…

The interplay between band topology and material nonlinearity gives rise to a variety of novel phenomena, such as topological solitons and nonlinearity-induced topological phase transitions. However, most previous studies fall within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Junyao Wu , Rui-Chang Shen , Li Zhang , Fujia Chen , Bingbing Wang , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang , Haoran Xue

We investigate non-Hermitian elastic lattices characterized by non-local feedback control interactions. In one-dimensional lattices, we show that the proportional control interactions produce complex dispersion relations characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Matheus I. N. Rosa , Massimo Ruzzene

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

We analyze impacts of crystalline symmetry on the non-Hermitian skin effects. Focusing on mirror symmetry, we propose a novel type of skin effects, a mirror skin effect, which results in significant dependence of energy spectrum on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Tsuneya Yoshida , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

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

We report a novel localization phenomenon that emerges in non-Hermitian and quasiperiodic coupled systems, which we dub ``Anderson-Skin (AS) dualism". The emergence of AS dualism is due to the fact that non-Hermitian topological systems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Shan-Zhong Li , Linhu Li , Shi-Liang Zhu , Zhi Li

We establish exact relations between the winding of "energy" (eigenvalue of Hamiltonian) on the complex plane as momentum traverses the Brillouin zone with periodic boundary condition, and the presence of "skin modes" with open boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Kai Zhang , Zhesen Yang , Chen Fang

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a fascinating phenomenon in nonequilibrium systems where eigenstates massively localize at the systems' boundaries, pumping (quasi-)particles loaded in these systems unidirectionally to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Yi Qin , Ching Hua Lee , Linhu Li

Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians have been shown to exhibit unique signatures, including the NH skin effect and an exponential spectral sensitivity with respect to boundary conditions. Here, we investigate as to what extent these remarkable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Tommaso Micallo , Carl Lehmann , Jan Carl Budich

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit fascinating characteristics such as non-Hermitian topological phenomena and skin effect, yet their studies are limited by the intrinsic difficulties associated with their eigenvalue problems, especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Guang Yang , Yongkang Li , Yongxu Fu , Zhenduo Wang , Yi Zhang

We study the spin orbit coupled ultra cold Bose-Einstein condensate placed in a single mode Fabry-P\'erot cavity. The cavity introduces a quantum optical lattice potential which dynamically couples with the atomic degrees of freedom and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-08-28 Bikash Padhi , Sankalpa Ghosh

In a recent experiment by Wu {\textit et al.} (arXiv:1511.08170), a Raman-assisted two-dimensional spin-orbit coupling has been realized for a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice potential. In light of this exciting progress, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-19 Jian-Song Pan , Wei Zhang , Wei Yi , Guang-Can Guo

Non-Hermitian phenomena, such as exceptional points, non-Hermitian skin effects, and topologically nontrivial phases have attracted continued attention. In this work, we reveal how interactions and nonreciprocal hopping could collectively…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-04 Yalun Zhang , Longwen Zhou

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a distinctive phenomenon in non-Hermitian systems, characterized by a significant accumulation of eigenstates at system boundaries. While well-understood in one dimension via non-Bloch band theory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Yuncheng Xiong , Ze-Yu Xing , Haiping Hu

Non-Hermitian (NH) crystals, quasicrystals and amorphous network display an accumulation of a macroscopic number of states near one of its specific interfaces with vacuum, such as edge, surface, hinge or corner. This phenomenon is known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Sourav Manna , Bitan Roy