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Absolute negative mobility (ANM) in nonequilibrium systems depicts the possibility of particles propagating toward the opposite direction of an external force. We uncover in this work a phenomenon analogous to ANM regarding eigenstate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Linhu Li , Wei Xin Teo , Sen Mu , Jiangbin Gong

The non-Hermitian edge burst is a phenomenon observed in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics, characterized by a significant accumulation of loss at the boundaries of a system. We present an example of the edge burst effect in a lossy lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 G. Sen , C. Yuce

One of unique features of non-Hermitian systems is the extreme sensitive to their boundary conditions, e.g., the emergence of non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under the open boundary conditions, where most of bulk states become localized at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-16 Hao Wang , Jin Liu , Tao Liu , Wen-Bo Ju

Distinct non-Hermitian dynamics has demonstrated its advantages in improving measurement precision over traditional sensing protocols. Multi-mode non-Hermitian lattice dynamics can provide exponentially-enhanced quantum sensing where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Liying Bao , Bo Qi , Daoyi Dong

The dynamical consequences of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) remain largely unexplored despite extensive studies of its static properties. Here we address this gap by applying quantum Liang information flow (QLIF) an inherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Bin Yi

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

Open quantum systems governed by non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonians exhibit unique phenomena, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect, where eigenstates localize at system boundaries. We investigate this effect in a Rashba nanowire coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Carlos Payá , Oliver Solow , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado , Karsten Flensberg

Non-Hermitian topological systems have attracted lots of interest due to their unique topological properties when the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) appears. However, the experimental realization of NHSE conventionally requires…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-29 Yaohua Li , Cuicui Lu , Shuang Zhang , Yong-Chun Liu

Non-Hermitian systems host exotic phenomena absent in their Hermitian counterparts, including the recently predicted self-healing effect (SHE) of non-Hermitian skin modes. To date, the SHE of skin modes in non-Hermitian systems has not been…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Hua-Yu Bai , Yang Chen , Tian-Yang Zhang , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong , Xi-Feng Ren

Non-Hermitian skin effect, namely that the eigenvalues and eigenstates of a non-Hermitian tight-binding Hamiltonian have significant differences under open or periodic boundary conditions, is a remarkable phenomenon of non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Liang Mao , Tianshu Deng , Pengfei Zhang

We present a modification to the bosonic Kitaev chain that, despite being Hermitian, supports both nonHermitian skin effect and nontrivial topological edge modes in its excitation Hamiltonian. We establish an exact mapping between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Ibsal Assi , J. P. F. LeBlanc , Michael Vogl

A non-Hermitian topological insulator is fundamentally different from conventional topological insulators. The non-Hermitian skin effect arises in a nonreciprocal tight binding lattice with open edges. In this case, not only topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 C. Yuce

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit novel phenomena without Hermitian counterparts, such as exceptional points and the non-Hermitian skin effect. These non-Hermitian topological phenomena are observable in single-particle excitations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-11 Robert Peters , Tsuneya Yoshida

For decades, Hermiticity was considered an immutable axiom of quantum mechanics, essential for ensuring real energies and unitary evolution. This perspective has shifted radically, driven by the realization that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Federico Roccati , Federico Balducci

We characterise non-Hermitian Fabry-P\'erot resonances in high-contrast resonator systems and study the properties of their associated resonant modes from continuous differential models. We consider two non-Hermitian effects: the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Bowen Li , Ping Liu , Jiayu Qiu , Yingjie Shao , Alexander Uhlmann

Periodically driven systems host topological phases without static analogs, such as the anomalous Floquet phase characterized by trivial bulk bands yet robust boundary modes. In this work, we investigate the scattering problem of a Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Fangqiao Ye , Haiping Hu

A system is non-Hermitian when it exchanges energy with its environment and non-reciprocal when it behaves differently upon the interchange of input and response. Within the field of metamaterial research on synthetic topological matter,…

The ease of using optical gain/loss provides a fertile ground for experimental explorations of non-Hermitian (NH) physics. Without gain/loss, can we realize the NH effect in a Hermitian system? The interface between the coupled Hermitian…

In contrast to the conventional (first-order) non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in a $d$-dimensional system with linear size $L$, the $n$th-order (higher-order) NHSE is characterized by skin modes localized at lower-dimensional boundaries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Wen-Zheng Ling , Zhao-Fan Cai , Tao Liu

The non-Hermitian skin effect, by which the eigenstates of Hamiltonian are predominantly localized at the boundary, has revealed a strong sensitivity of non-Hermitian systems to the boundary condition. Here we experimentally observe a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Lei Xiao , Wen-Tan Xue , Fei Song , Yu-Min Hu , Wei Yi , Zhong Wang , Peng Xue