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We unveil an unexpected non-Hermitian phenomenon, dubbed edge burst, in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics. Specifically, in a class of non-Hermitian quantum walk in periodic lattices with open boundary condition, an exceptionally large portion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Wen-Tan Xue , Yu-Min Hu , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

The interplay between non-Hermitian effects and topological insulators has become a frontier of research in non-Hermitian physics. However, the existence of a non-Hermitian skin effect for topological-protected edge states remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Xinran Ma , Kui Cao , Xiaoran Wang , Zheng Wei , Supeng Kou

Robust boundary states epitomize how deep physics can give rise to concrete experimental signatures with technological promise. Of late, much attention has focused on two distinct mechanisms for boundary robustness - topological protection,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Deyuan Zou , Tian Chen , Wenjing He , Jiacheng Bao , Ching Hua Lee , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

The non-Hermitian skin effect is nonreciprocity-induced localization phenomena in which a macroscopic number of eigenstates accumulate anomalously at the boundary, accompanied by the extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Kohei Kawabata

Quantum devices characterized by non-Hermitian topology are predicted to show highly robust and potentially useful properties, but realizing them has remained a daunting experimental task. This is because non-Hermiticity is often associated…

We investigate novel features of three dimensional non-Hermitian Weyl semimetals, paying special attention to its unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence. We use the non-Bloch Chern numbers as the tool to obtain the topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Xiaosen Yang , Yang Cao , Yunjia Zhai

A modified periodic boundary condition adequate for non-hermitian topological systems is proposed. Under this boundary condition a topological number characterizing the system is defined in the same way as in the corresponding hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yositake Takane

Non-Hermitian skin effect, which is a unique feature of non-Hermitian systems, exhibits the formation of an extensive number of boundary modes under open boundary conditions. However, its manifestation in higher dimensions remains elusive.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Dipendu Halder , Srijata Lahiri , Saurabh Basu

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to unique topological phases that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Such intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases appear even in one dimension while no topological phases appear in one-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu

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 is a distinctive phenomenon in non-Hermitian systems, which manifests as the anomalous localization of bulk states at the boundary. To understand the physical origin of the non-Hermitian skin effect, a bulk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Tuo Wan , Kai Zhang , Junkai Li , Zhesen Yang , Zhaoju Yang

Non-Hermiticity greatly expands existing physical laws beyond the Hermitian framework, revealing various novel phenomena with unique properties. Up to now, most exotic nonHermitian effects, such as exceptional points and non-Hermitian skin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-20 Weixuan Zhang , Fengxiao Di , Hao Yuan , Haiteng Wang , Xingen Zheng , Lu He1 , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

We investigate the roles of non-Hermitian topology in spectral properties and entanglement structures of open systems. In terms of spectral theory, we give a unified understanding of two interpretations of non-Hermitian topology: quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

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

Recently, the search for topological states of matter has turned to non-Hermitian systems, which exhibit a rich variety of unique properties without Hermitian counterparts. Lattices modeled through non-Hermitian Hamiltonians appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , J. E. Barrios Vargas , M. Berdakin , L. E. F. Foa Torres

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

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 classification of point gap topology in all local non-Hermitian symmetry classes has been recently established. However, many entries in the resulting periodic table have only been discussed in a formal setting and still lack a physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 M. Michael Denner , Titus Neupert , Frank Schindler

We analyze a correlated system in equilibrium with special emphasis on non-Hermitian topology inducing a skin effect. The pseudo-spectrum, computed by the real-space dynamical mean-field theory, elucidates that additional pseudo-eigenstates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Tsuneya Yoshida

Non-Hermitian topological systems show quite different properties as their Hermitian counterparts. An important, puzzled issue on non-Hermitian topological systems is the existence of defective edge states beyond usual bulk-boundary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Xiao-Ran Wang , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou