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We study the one-dimensional nonreciprocal lattices with real nearest neighboring hopping and find that the energy spectra under open boundary conditions can be entirely real or imaginary. We further investigate the spectral properties and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Qi-Bo Zeng , Rong Lü

The determination of the electron neutrino mass by electron capture in $^{163}$Ho relies on a precise understanding of the deexcitation of a core hole after an electron capture event. We here present an \textit{ab intio} calculation of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 M. Braß , C. Enss , L. Gastaldo , M. W. Haverkort

Non-Hermitian skin effect, the localization of an extensive number of eigenstates at the ends of the system, has greatly expanded the frontier of physical laws. It has long been believed that the present of skin modes is equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Gang-Feng Guo , Xi-Xi Bao , Han-Jie Zhu , Xiao-Ming Zhao , Lin Zhuang , Lei Tan , Wu-Ming Liu

Non-Hermitian quantum systems, characterized by their ability to model open systems with gain and loss, have unveiled striking phenomena such as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), where eigenstates localize at boundaries under open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chakradhar Rangi , Juana Moreno , Ka-Ming Tam

Spectral functions of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can reveal the existence of topologically non-trivial line gaps and the associated topological edge modes. However, the computation of spectral functions in a non-Hermitian many-body system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Guangze Chen , Fei Song , Jose L. Lado

We numerically study topological effects of electromagnetic (EM) waves in a two-dimensional (2D) non-Hermitian photonic crystal (PhC) composed of lossy magneto-optical materials. In this system, not only the EM wavefunctions but also the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Huyen Thanh Phan , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We investigate Perfect Absorption (PA) of radiation, in which incoming energy is entirely dissipated, in a system consisting of molecular spin centers coherently coupled to a planar microwave resonator operated at milliKelvin temperature…

Two Non-Hermitian fermion models are proposed and analyzed by using Foldy-Wouthuysen transformations. One model has Lorentz symmetry breaking and the other has a non-Hermitian mass term. It is shown that each model has real energies in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Jean Alexandre , Carl M. Bender

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

Spectral homodyne detection, a widely used technique for measuring quantum properties of light beams, cannot retrieve all the information needed to reconstruct the quantum state of spectral field modes. We show that full quantum state…

The non-Hermitian skin effect is fundamentally characterized by its sensitivity to boundary conditions, reflected in changes to the energy spectrum and boundary-localized eigenstates. Here, we demonstrate that a spatially inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zheng Wei , Ji-Yao Fan , Kui Cao , Xin-Ran Ma , Cui-Xian Guo , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-Peng Kou

Spontaneous magnon decay is a generic feature of the magnetic excitations of anisotropic magnets and isotropic magnets with non-collinear order. In this paper, we argue that the effect of interactions on one-magnon states can, under many…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Paul A. McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau

The complex eigenenergies and non-orthogonal eigenstates of non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique topological phenomena that cannot appear in Hermitian systems. Representative examples are the non-Hermitian skin effect and exceptional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Jung-Wan Ryu , Jae-Ho Han , Chang-Hwan Yi , Hee Chul Park , Moon Jip Park

In recent years, non-Hermitian quantum physics has gained a lot in popularity in the quantum optics and condensed matter communities in order to model quantum systems with varying symmetries. In this paper, we identify a non-standard inner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jake Southall , Daniel Hodgson , Robert Purdy , Almut Beige

We analyze the scattering dynamics and spectrum of a quantum particle on a tight-binding lattice subject to a non-Hermitian (purely imaginary) local potential. The reflection, transmission and absorption coefficients are studied as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Phillip C. Burke , Jan Wiersig , Masudul Haque

We discuss a generalization of the non-Hermitian skin effect to finite-size photonic structures with neither gain nor loss in the bulk and purely real energy spectrum under periodic boundary conditions (PBC). We show that such systems can…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-09 Alexander Poddubny , Janet Zhong , Shanhui Fan

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has emerged as a distinctive phenomenon enabling non-Bloch wave manipulation. However, it has been limited to discrete lattices requiring fine-tuned onsite gain/loss or asymmetric couplings. Here, moving…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yuan Tian , Nankun Gao , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Dissipation in open systems enriches the possible symmetries of the Hamiltonians beyond the Hermitian framework allowing the possibility of novel non-Hermitian topological phases, which exhibit long-living end states that are protected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Wojciech Brzezicki , Matti Silveri , Marcin Płodzień , Francesco Massel , Timo Hyart

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the properties of topological models, leading to exotic features such as the non-Hermitian skin effects and non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence that have no counterparts in Hermitian settings. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Kunkun Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Utilizing scattering theory, we quantify the consequences of physical constraints that limit the visibility of non-Hermitian effects in passive devices. The constraints arise from the fundamental requirement that the system obeys causality,…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-15 Henning Schomerus