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Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing inspiration from the discovery of the quantum Hall effects and…

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a novel localization phenomenon, in which all bulk states in a non-Hermitian system under certain conditions are localized at the edge of the system. Conventionally, most studies of NHSE have dealt…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-05 Issei Takeda , Taiki Yoda , Yuto Moritake , Kenta Takata , Masaya Notomi

A unique feature of non-Hermitian systems is the skin effect, which is the extreme sensitivity to the boundary conditions. Here, we reveal that the skin effect originates from intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. Such a topological origin not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

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

We study a system where the two edges of a non-Hermitian lattice with asymmetric nearest-neighbor hopping are connected with two Hermitian lattices with symmetric nearest-neighbor hopping. In the absence of those Hermitian lattices, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-11 Ranjan Modak

We show that two-dimensional non-Hermitian photonic crystals made of lossy material can exhibit non-trivial point gap topology in terms of topological winding in its complex frequency band structure. Such crystals can be either made of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Janet Zhong , Kai Wang , Yubin Park , Viktar Asadchy , Charles C. Wojcik , Avik Dutt , Shanhui Fan

Higher-order topological states in sound have played a pivotal role in understanding the intricate physics underlying sound transport, giving rise to new strategy of manipulating sound. Here we report tunable structure for hinge skin states…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-12 Y. X. Fang , W. H. Zhu , Y. P. Lai , Y. Li , S. Q. Wu

The non-Hermitian (NH) skin effect is a truly NH feature, which manifests itself as an accumulation of states, known as skin states, on the boundaries of a system. In this perspective, we discuss several aspects of the NH skin effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Julius T. Gohsrich , Ayan Banerjee , Flore K. Kunst

We observe linear and nonlinear light localization at the edges and in the corners of truncated moir\'e lattices created by the superposition of periodic mutually-twisted at Pythagorean angles square sublattices. Experimentally exciting…

Non-Hermitian skin effect exhibits the collapse of the extended bulk modes into the extensive number of localized boundary states in open boundary conditions. Here we demonstrate the disorder-driven phase transition of the trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Kyoung-Min Kim , Moon Jip Park

Two-dimensional (2D) semi-Dirac materials are characterized by a quadratic dispersion in one direction and a linear dispersion along the orthogonal direction. We study the topological phase transition in such 2D systems in the presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-01 Kush Saha

The non-Hermitian skin effect is an intriguing physical phenomenon, in which all eigen-modes of a non-Hermitian lattice become localized at boundary regions. While such an exotic behavior has been demonstrated in various physical platforms,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mathieu Padlewski , Romain Fleury , Hervé Lissek

Localization of a macroscopic number of eigenstates on a real-space boundary, known as the non-Hermitian skin effect, is one of the striking topological features emerging from non-Hermiticity. Realizing this effect typically requires…

We investigate the non-Hermitian Haldane model on hyperbolic $\{8, 3\}$ and $\{12, 3\}$ lattices, and showcase its intriguing topological properties in the simultaneous presence of non-Hermitian effect and hyperbolic geometry. From bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Junsong Sun , Chang-An Li , Shiping Feng , Huaiming Guo

Photonic crystal topological insulators host protected states at their edges. In the band structure these edge states appear as continuous bands crossing the photonic band gap. They allow light to propagate unidirectionally and without…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Gleb Siroki , Paloma Arroyo Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

We demonstrate that Hermitian, nonlocal parametric pairing processes can induce non-Hermitian topology and skin modes, offering a simple alternative to complex bath engineering. Our model, stabilized by local dissipation and operating in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Markus Bestler , Alexander Dikopoltsev , Oded Zilberberg

The Liouvillian skin effect and the non-Hermitian skin effect have both been used to explain the localization of eigenmodes near system boundaries, though the former is arguably more accurate in some regimes due to its incorporation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Po-Chen Kuo , Shen-Liang Yang , Neill Lambert , Jhen-Dong Lin , Yi-Te Huang , Franco Nori , Yueh-Nan Chen

We report a novel localization phenomenon that emerges in non-Hermitian and quasiperiodic coupled systems, which we dub ``Anderson-Skin (AS) dualism". The emergence of AS dualism is due to the fact that non-Hermitian topological systems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Shan-Zhong Li , Linhu Li , Shi-Liang Zhu , Zhi Li

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

Skin effect, experimentally discovered in one dimension, describes the physical phenomenon that on an open chain, an extensive number of eigenstates of a non-Hermitian hamiltonian are localized at the end(s) of the chain. Here in two and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Kai Zhang , Zhesen Yang , Chen Fang