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Non-Hermitian systems associated with exceptional points (EPs) are expected to demonstrate a giant response enhancement for various sensors. The widely investigated enhancement mechanism based on diverging from an EP should destroy the EP…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xuan Mao , Guo-Qing Qin , Hao Zhang , Bo-Yang Wang , Dan Long , Gui-Qin Li , Gui-Lu Long

Although the homotopy-knot theory has been utilized to implement effective topological classification for non-Hermitian systems, the physical implications underlying distinct knot topologies remain ambiguous and are rarely addressed. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Guoying Zhang , Li Wang , Shu Chen

Topological phases enable protected transport along the edges of materials, offering immunity against scattering from disorder and imperfections. These phases were suggested and demonstrated not only for electronic systems, but also for…

A non-Hermitian system can exhibit extensive sensitivity of its complex energy spectrum to the imposed boundary conditions, which is beyond any known phenomenon from Hermitian systems. In addition to topologically protected boundary modes,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-15 Ching Hua Lee , Ronny Thomale

We present a topological approach to the input-output relations of photonic driven-dissipative lattices acting as directional amplifiers. Our theory relies on a mapping from the optical non-Hermitian coupling matrix to an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Tomás Ramos , Juan José García-Ripoll , Diego Porras

The Hatano-Nelson model is a cornerstone of non-Hermitian physics, describing asymmetric hopping dynamics on a one-dimensional lattice, which gives rise to fascinating phenomena such as directional transport, non-Hermitian topology, and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-01 Stefano Longhi

Topology is central to understanding and engineering materials that display robust physical phenomena immune to imperfections. Different topological phases of matter are characterised by topological invariants. In energy-conserving…

This report considers the class of applications of sensor networks in which each sensor node makes measurements, such as temperature or humidity, at the precise location of the node. Such spot-sensing applications approximate the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-26 Xiaoyu Chu , Harish Sethu

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…

Among the most intriguing features of non-Hermitian (NH) systems is the ability of complex energies to form braids under parametric variation. Several braiding behaviors, including link and knot formation, have been observed in experiments…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-25 Bofeng Zhu , Qiang Wang , You Wang , Qi Jie Wang , Y. D. Chong

The remarkable sensitivity of non-Hermitian systems has been extensively studied and stimulated ideas about developing new types of sensors. In this paper, we examine a chain of parametrically driven coupled resonators governed by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Oscar Arandes , Emil J. Bergholtz

The static and dynamical properties of a one-dimensional quantum system described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian of the so-called Hatano-Nelson type; a tight-binding model with asymmetric (or non-reciprocal) hopping, are studied. The static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Takahiro Orito , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Non-Hermitian skin effect(NHSE) describes a unique non-Hermitian phenomenon that all eigen-modes are localized near the boundary, and has profound impact on a wide range of bulk properties. In particular, topological systems with NHSE have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-29 Lihong Zhou , Haowei Li , Wei Yi , Xiaoling Cui

Exceptional points (EPs) with their intriguing spectral topology have attracted considerable attention in a broad range of physical systems, with potential sensing applications driving much of the present research in this field. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jan Wingenbach , Stefan Schumacher , Xuekai Ma

Photonic systems with exceptional points, where eigenvalues and corresponding eigenstates coalesce, have attracted interest due to their topological features and enhanced sensitivity to external perturbations. Non-Hermitian mode-coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 B. M. Rodriguez-Lara , H. Ghaemi-Dizicheh , S. Dehdashti , A. Hanke , A. Touhami , J. Nötzel

In spite of extensive works on the non-Hermitian topology, correlations effects remain crucial questions. We hereby analyze correlated non-Hermitian systems with special emphasis on the one-dimensional point-gap topology. Specifically, our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

We show that a non-Hermitian lattice with a disclination can host topological disclination states that are induced by on-site gain and loss. The disclination states are inherently non-Hermitian as they do not exist in the limit of zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Rimi Banerjee , Subhaskar Mandal , Yun Yong Terh , Shuxin Lin , Gui-Geng Liu , Baile Zhang , Y. D. Chong

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

A new architecture is presented for a Networked Signal Processing System (NSPS) suitable for handling the real-time signal processing of multi-element radio telescopes. In this system, a multi-element radio telescope is viewed as an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Peeyush Prasad , C. R. Subrahmanya

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