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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

We study the one-dimensional non-Hermitian lattices with linearly varying nonreciprocal hopping, where the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is found to be dissolved gradually as the strength of nonreciprocity increases. The energy spectrum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Bo Hou , Han Xiao , Rong Lü , Qi-Bo Zeng

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

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is one of the most fundamental phenomena in non-Hermitian physics. Although it is established that one-dimensional NHSE originates from the nontrivial spectral winding topology, the topological origin behind…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Qicheng Zhang , Yufei Leng , Liwei Xiong , Yuzeng Li , Kun Zhang , Liangjun Qi , Chunyin Qiu

Non-Hermitian physics has greatly enriched our understanding of nonequilibrium phenomena and uncovered novel effects such as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) that has profoundly revolutionized the field. NHSE is typically predicted in…

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions, typically manifesting as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under open boundaries. By bridging the boundaries with a tunable impurity bond, one can access…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Kazuma Saito , Ryo Okugawa , Kazuki Yokomizo , Takami Tohyama , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

The non-Hermitian systems with the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) are very sensitive to the imposed boundary conditions and lattice size, which leads to size-dependent non-Hermitian skin effects. Here, we report the experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Luhong Su , Cui-Xian Guo , Yongliang Wang , Li Li , Xinhui Ruan , Yanjing Du , Shu Chen , Dongning Zheng

Non-Hermitian skin effects (NHSEs) have recently been extensively studied at the single-particle level. When many-body interactions become dominant, novel non-Hermitian phenomena can emerge. In this work, we propose an experimentally…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-14 Yang Li , Zhao-Fan Cai , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Bulk-boundary correspondence, a central principle in topological matter relating bulk topological invariants to edge states, breaks down in a generic class of non-Hermitian systems that have so far eluded experimental effort. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Lei Xiao , Tianshu Deng , Kunkun Wang , Gaoyan Zhu , Zhong Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Non-Hermitian physics has received great attention recently. In particular, band structures in non-Hermitian systems can be engineered to exhibit various topological effects. Among them, one of the most intriguing phenomena is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Wenwen Liu , Oubo You , Bumki Min , Shuang Zhang

We illuminate the fundamental mechanism responsible for the transition between the non-Hermitian skin effect and defect-induced localization in the bulk. We study a Hamiltonian with non-reciprocal couplings that exhibits the skin effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Bryn Davies , Silvio Barandun , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Richard V. Craster , Habib Ammari

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a significant phenomenon observed in non-Hermitian systems under open boundary conditions, where the extensive bulk eigenstates tend to accumulate at the lattice edges. In this article, we investigate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-07 Rui Qi , Junpeng Cao , Xiang-Ping Jiang

We identify and investigate two classes of non-Hermitian systems, i.e., one resulting from Lorentz-symmetry violation (LSV) and the other from a complex mass (CM) with Lorentz invariance, from the perspective of quantum field theory. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Zi-Yong Ge , Yu-Ran Zhang , Tao Liu , Si-Wen Li , Heng Fan , Franco Nori

In ordered, translationally invariant non-Hermitian systems, the skin effect is understood as a boundary phenomenon: nonreciprocal hopping drives an extensive accumulation of eigenstates towards the edges, whereas the periodic-boundary…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yeyang Sun , Shu Yang , Yi Yang

Bulk-edge correspondence, with quantized bulk topology leading to protected edge states, is a hallmark of topological states of matter and has been experimentally observed in electronic, atomic, photonic, and many other systems. While…

It is generally believed that the non-Hermitian effect (NHSE), due to its non-reciprocal nature, creates barriers for the appearance of impurity bound states. In this paper, we find that in two and higher dimensions, the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ao Yang , Zixi Fang , Kai Zhang , Chen Fang

Non-Hermitian skin effect denotes the exponential localization of a large number of eigen-states in a non-Hermitian lattice under open boundary conditions. Such a non-Hermiticity-induced skin effect can offset the penetration depth of…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-17 Qinghui Yan , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang

We study the interplay of two distinct non-Hermitian parameters: directional coupling and onsite gain-loss, together with topology, in coupled one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. The SSH model represents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

The dislocation skin effect exhibits the capacity of topological defects to trap an extensive number of modes in two-dimensional non-Hermitian systems. Similar to the corresponding skin effects caused by system boundaries, this phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Nisarg Chadha , Ali G. Moghaddam , Jeroen van den Brink , Cosma Fulga

The discovery of non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has opened an exciting direction for unveiling unusual physics and phenomena in non-Hermitian system. Despite notable theoretical breakthroughs, actual observation of NHSE's whole…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-13 Zhongming Gu , He Gao , Haoran Xue , Jensen Li , Zhongqing Su , Jie Zhu