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Hyperbolic lattices are starting to be explored in search of novel phases of matter. At the same time, non-Hermitian physics has come to the forefront in photonic, optical, phononic, and condensed matter systems. In this work, we introduce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Nisarg Chadha , Awadhesh Narayan

Non-Hermitian topological insulators have attracted considerable attention due to their distinctive energy band characteristics and promising applications. Here, we systematically investigate non-Hermitian M\"obius insulators and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Wenjie Zhang , Yuting Yang , Xiaopeng Shen , Liwei Shi , Zhi Hong Hang

Non-Hermitian systems enable continuous and smooth tuning of topological phases through externally controllable loss/gain parameters. Without altering the intrinsic lattice structure, merely fine-tuning the intensity or spatial distribution…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Shuanghuizhi Li , Bowei Wu , Tingfeng Ma , Jiaqi Zhang , Chenbowen Lou

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

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 matrices are ubiquitous in the description of nature ranging from classical dissipative systems, including optical, electrical, and mechanical metamaterials, to scattering of waves and open quantum many-body systems. Seminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , J. Lukas K. König , Lukas Rødland , Marcus Stålhammar , Emil J. Bergholtz

Combating the effects of disorder on light transport in micro- and nano-integrated photonic devices is of major importance from both fundamental and applied viewpoints. In ordinary waveguides, imperfections and disorder cause unwanted…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-15 Stefano Longhi , Davide Gatti , Giuseppe Della Valle

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

Advances in topological photonics and non-Hermitian optics have drastically changed our perception on how interdisciplinary concepts may empower unprecedented applications. Bridging the two areas could uncover the reciprocity between…

The topology of non-Hermitian systems is drastically shaped by the non-Hermitian skin effect, which leads to the generalized bulk-boundary correspondence and non-Bloch band theory. The essential part in formulations of bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Fei Song , Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

The spectral properties of a non-Hermitian quasi-1D lattice in two of the possible dimerization configurations are investigated. Specifically, it focuses on a non-Hermitian diamond chain that presents a zero-energy flat band. The flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 C. Martínez-Strasser , M. A. J. Herrera , A. García-Etxarri , G. Palumbo , F. K. Kunst , D. Bercioux

We investigate a one-dimensional superconducting lattice that realizes all internal symmetries permitted in non-Hermitian systems, characterized by nonreciprocal hopping, onsite dissipation, and $s$-wave singlet pairing in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Chuo-Kai Chang , Kazuma Saito , Nobuyuki Okuma , Hsien-Chung Kao , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Non-Hermitian photonics provides a fertile platform for exploring phenomena with no Hermitian counterparts, including the non-Hermitian skin effect and exceptional points, with direct relevance for integrated photonic technologies. In this…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-26 Xiaosen Yang , Yaru Feng , Abdul Wahab , Hao Geng

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 appears ubiquitously in various open classical and quantum systems and enriches classification of topological phases. However, the role of nonsymmorphic symmetry, crystalline symmetry accompanying fractional lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Daichi Nakamura , Yutaro Tanaka , Ken Shiozaki , Kohei Kawabata

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

A non-unitary transformation leading to a Hatano-Nelson problem is performed on an array of equally-spaced optical waveguides. Such transformation produces a non-reciprocal system of waveguides, as the corresponding Hamiltonian becomes…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-17 Ivan Bocanegra , Héctor M. Moya-Cessa

We establish a general framework for studying the bound states and the photon-emission dynamics of quantum emitters coupled to structured nanophotonic lattices with engineered dissipation (loss). In the single-excitation sector, the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Zongping Gong , Miguel Bello , Daniel Malz , Flore K. Kunst

We show the existence of a flat band consisting of photonic zero modes in a gain and loss modulated lattice system, as a result of the underlying non-Hermitian particle-hole symmetry. This general finding explains the previous observation…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-07 Bingkun Qi , Lingxuan Zhang , Li Ge

Dissipation in mechanics, optics, acoustics, and electronic circuits is nowadays recognized to be not always detrimental but can be exploited to achieve non-Hermitian topological phases or properties with functionalities for potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Tao Yu , Ji Zou , Bowen Zeng , J. W. Rao , Ke Xia