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We study the time evolution processes of non-Hermitian systems under the open boundary condition and confirm that the dynamical skin effect exists in non-Hermitian systems analytically, and unveil the mechanism of its formation, which is…

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The non-Hermitian skin effect is fundamentally characterized by its sensitivity to boundary conditions, reflected in changes to the energy spectrum and boundary-localized eigenstates. Here, we demonstrate that a spatially inhomogeneous…

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We experimentally study a periodically driven many-body localized system realized by interacting fermions in a one-dimensional quasi-disordered optical lattice. By preparing the system in a far-from-equilibrium state and monitoring the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-24 Pranjal Bordia , Henrik Lüschen , Ulrich Schneider , Michael Knap , Immanuel Bloch

Non-Hermitian skin effect, which refers to the phenomenon that an extensive number of eigenstates are localized at the boundary, has been widely studied in lattice models and experimentally observed in several classical systems. In this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-01-02 Sibo Guo , Chenxiao Dong , Fuchun Zhang , Jiangping Hu , Zhesen Yang

Non-Hermitian skin effects (NHSEs) have recently been extensively studied at the single-particle level. When many-body interactions become dominant, novel non-Hermitian phenomena can emerge. In this work, we propose an experimentally…

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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

We explore anomalous skin effects at non-Hermitian impurities by studying their interplay with potential disorder and by exactly solving a minimal lattice model. A striking feature of the solvable single-impurity model is that the presence…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-06 Paolo Molignini , Oscar Arandes , Emil J. Bergholtz

We study the correlated Haldane-Hubbard model with single-particle gain and loss, focusing on its non-Hermitian phase diagram and the ensuing non-unitary dynamic properties. The interplay of interactions and non-hermiticity results in…

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The skin effect, where bulk modes collapse into boundary modes, is a key phenomenon in topological non-Hermitian systems, has been predominantly studied in spinless systems. Recent studies illustrate the magnetic suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Wenna Zhang , Yutao Hu , Hongyi Zhang , Xiang Liu , Georgios Veronis , Yuecheng Shen , Yin Huang , Wenchen Luo , Andrea Alu`

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 design of time-independent effective Hamiltonians that describe periodically modulated systems, provides a promising approach to realize new forms of matter. This, so-called, Floquet engineering approach is currently limited to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Huanan Li , Boris Shapiro , Tsampikos Kottos

Scattering theory is a standard tool for the description of transport phenomena in mesoscopic systems. Here, we provide a detailed derivation of this method for nano-scale conductors that are driven by oscillating electric or magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-01 Kay Brandner

We investigate quantum transport in an off-diagonal Aubry--Andr\'e--Harper chain. The periodic hopping modulation generates effective internal boundaries that strongly influence the transmission characteristics. We show that edge, in-band…

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We investigate a class of periodically driven many-body systems that allows us to extend the phenomenon of prethermalization to the vicinity of isolated intermediate-to-low drive frequencies away from the high-frequency limit. We provide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Christoph Fleckenstein , Marin Bukov

Non-Hermiticity enables macroscopic accumulation of bulk states, named non-Hermitian skin effects. The non-Hermitian skin effects are well-established for single-particle systems, but their proper characterization for general systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Kenji Shimomura , Masatoshi Sato

Non-reciprocal lattice systems are among the simplest non-Hermitian systems, exhibiting several key features absent in their Hermitian counterparts. In this study, we investigate the Hatano-Nelson model with impurity and unveil how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Nico G. Leumer , Dario Bercioux

We show how local periodic driving can be used to control dissipation in a structured environment in a highly selective manner. As a minimal setting, we consider two discrete levels coupled to a one-dimensional tight-binding continuum with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Hidemasa Yamane

The eigenstates of one-dimensional Hermitian and non-Hermitian tight-binding systems (in the presence/absence of quasiperiodic potential) and an external electric field undergo complete localization with equally spaced eigenenergies, known…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-17 Aditi Chakrabarty , Sanjoy Datta

For non-Hermitian quantum models, the dynamics is apparently not reflected by the static properties, e.g., the complex energy spectrum, because of the nonorthogonality of the right eigenvectors, the nonunitarity of the time evolution, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Li-Jun Lang , Yijiao Weng , Yunhui Zhang , Enhong Cheng , Qixia Liang

With light-matter interaction extending into strong regime, as well as rapid development of laser technology, systems subjecting to a time-periodic perturbation are attracted broad attention. Floquet theorem and Floquet time-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Yu Wang , Vahid Mosallanejad , Wei Liu , Wenjie Dou