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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

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems depicts the exponential localization of eigenstates at system's boundaries. It has led to a number of counter-intuitive phenomena and challenged our understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Weiwei Zhu , Wei Xin Teo , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

Non-Hermitian skin effect(NHSE) describes a unique non-Hermitian phenomenon that all eigen-modes are localized near the boundary, and has profound impact on a wide range of bulk properties. In particular, topological systems with NHSE have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-29 Lihong Zhou , Haowei Li , Wei Yi , Xiaoling Cui

Topological modes (TMs) are typically localized at boundaries, interfaces and dislocations, and exponentially decay into the bulk of a large enough lattice. Recently, the non-Hermitian skin effect has been leveraged to delocalize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kai Bai , Jia-Zheng Li , Tian-Rui Liu , Liang Fang , Duanduan Wan , Meng Xiao

The bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) relates in-gap boundary modes to bulk topological invariants. In certain non-Hermitian topological systems, conventional BBC becomes invalid in the presence of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Rijia Lin , Linhu Li

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), characterized by the accumulation of a macroscopic number of bulk states at system boundaries, is a hallmark of non-Hermitian physics. However, effective control of skin-mode localization in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-09 Zhao-Fan Cai , Yang Li , Yu-Ran Zhang , Xiaomin Wei , Zhongmin Yang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

This article reviews recent developments in the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), particularly on its rich interplay with topology. The review starts off with a pedagogical introduction on the modified bulk-boundary correspondence, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Rijia Lin , Tommy Tai , Mengjie Yang , Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee

The traditional bulk-boundary correspondence assuring robust gapless modes at the edges and surfaces of insulating and nodal topological materials gets masked in non-Hermitian (NH) systems by the skin effect, manifesting an accumulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Archisman Panigrahi , Roderich Moessner , Bitan Roy

Symmetry-protected ideal flat bands in one-dimensional (1D) Hermitian lattices are populated by compact localized states (CLS) - a special class of localization with wavefunctions confined within a small region. In this work, we discover…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Xulong Wang , Dongyi Wang , Congwei Lu , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Ching Hua Lee , Kun Ding , Guancong Ma

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 non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), which drives bulk states toward system boundaries, modifies bulk-boundary correspondence and complicates the identification of topological edge modes. Although breaking translational symmetry is known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-25 F. Iwase

A non-Hermitian system is characterized by the violation of energy conservation. As a result of unbalanced gain or loss in the forward and backward directions due to non-reciprocal couplings, the eigenmodes of such systems exhibit extreme…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Haydar Sahin , Ching Hua Lee , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a phenomenon where the bulk states tend to the boundary within a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian system, with broad applications across various fields. A comprehensive understanding of anomalies in skin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Xu Chao , Guan Zhiqiang , Xu Hongxing

Non-Hermitian lattices can host the non-Hermitian skin effect, a boundary-induced collapse of all bulk eigenstates into exponentially localized edge modes. This effect underlies anomalous bulk-boundary correspondence and remarkable…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rohith Srikanth , Sashank Kaushik Sridhar , Avik Dutt

A unique feature of non-Hermitian (NH) systems is the NH skin effect, i.e. the edge localization of an extensive number of bulk-band eigenstates in a lattice with open or semi-infinite boundaries. Unlike extended Bloch waves in Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Stefano Longhi

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a novel localization phenomenon in certain non-Hermitian systems with gain and/or loss. Most of previous works study the non-Hermitian skin effect in periodic systems. However, electromagnetic waves…

The past decades have witnessed the flourishing of non-Hermitian physics in non-conservative systems, leading to unprecedented phenomena of unidirectional invisibility, enhanced sensitivity and more recently the novel topological features…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Xiujuan Zhang , Tian Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), a striking phenomenon where a large number of states accumulate toward open boundaries, has garnered significant attention in both fundamental physics and emerging applications. Recent theoretical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Wenquan Wu , Qicheng Zhang , Liangjun Qi , Kun Zhang , Shuaishuai Tong , Chunyin Qiu

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a well-known phenomenon in open topological systems that causes a large number of eigenstates to become localized at the boundary. Although many aspects of its theory have been investigated in linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Hamed Ghaemi-Dizicheh

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) -- the anomalous boundary accumulation of an extensive number of bulk modes -- has emerged as a hallmark of non-Hermitian physics, with broad implications for transport, sensing, and topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Stefano Longhi
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