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This paper shows that the skin effect in systems of non-Hermitian subwavelength resonators is robust with respect to random imperfections in the system. The subwavelength resonators are highly contrasting material inclusions that resonate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Ping Liu

In some non-Hermitian systems, the eigenstates in the bulk are localized at the boundaries of the systems. This is called the non-Hermitian skin effect, and it has been studied mostly in discrete systems. In the present work, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Kazuki Yokomizo , Taiki Yoda , Shuichi Murakami

The aim of this paper is fourfold: (i) to obtain explicit formulas for the eigenpairs of perturbed tridiagonal block Toeplitz matrices; (ii) to make use of such formulas in order to provide a mathematical justification of the non-Hermitian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Ping Liu

Skin effect, where macroscopically many bulk states are aggregated towards the system boundary, is one of the most important and distinguishing phenomena in non-Hermitian quantum systems. We discuss a new aspect of this effect whereby,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Ming Lu , Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Marcel Franz

We study the non-Hermitian skin effect in a three-dimensional system of finitely many subwavelength resonators with an imaginary gauge potential. We introduce a discrete approximation of the eigenmodes and eigenfrequencies of the system in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Jinghao Cao , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Ping Liu

The non-Hermitian skin effect is a phenomenon in which an extensive number of states accumulates at the boundaries of a system. It has been associated to nontrivial topology, with nonzero bulk invariants predicting its appearance and its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Helene Spring , Viktor Könye , Anton R. Akhmerov , Ion Cosma Fulga

One of the most pronounced non-Hermitian phenomena is the non-Hermitian skin effect, which refers to the exponential localization of bulk eigenstates near the boundaries of non-Hermitian systems. Whereas non-Bloch band theory has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Yu-Min Hu , Yin-Quan Huang , Wen-Tan Xue , Zhong Wang

This work investigates edge modes in non-Hermitian photonic crystals with broken spectral reciprocity. In such systems, the spectra of the underlying operators generally form closed loops over the complex plane with nontrivial spectral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Junshan Lin , Hai Zhang

The non-Hermitian skin effect is nonreciprocity-induced localization phenomena in which a macroscopic number of eigenstates accumulate anomalously at the boundary, accompanied by the extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Kohei Kawabata

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

We establish new results on the spectra and pseudo-spectra of tridiagonal $k$-Toeplitz operators and matrices. In particular, we prove the connection between the winding number of the eigenvalues of the symbol function and the exponential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Yannick De Bruijn , Ping Liu , Clemens Thalhammer

In this work, we demonstrate the presence of an anomalous non-Hermitian skin effects which decay from both ends of a system consisting of two coupled Hermitian chains induced by non-reciprocal inter-chain cross-coupling. Another intriguing…

In this work we first show a simple approach to constructing non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with a real spectrum, which are \textit{not} obtained by a non-unitary transformation such as the imaginary gauge transformation. They are given,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Li Ge

We study a Bose-Einstein condensate of ultracold atoms subject to a non-Hermitian spin-orbit coupling, where the system acquires non-Hermitian skin effect under the interplay of spin-orbit coupling and laser-induced atom loss. The presence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-02 Haowei Li , Xiaoling Cui , Wei Yi

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

Far from being limited to a trivial generalization of their Hermitian counterparts, non-Hermitian topological phases have gained widespread interest due to their unique properties. One of the most striking non-Hermitian phenomena is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Kuangyin Deng , Benedetta Flebus

A unique feature of non-Hermitian (NH) systems is the NH skin effect, i.e. the edge localization of an extensive number of bulk-band eigenstates in a lattice with open or semi-infinite boundaries. Unlike extended Bloch waves in Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Stefano Longhi

Topological phases of Hermitian systems are known to exhibit intriguing properties such as the presence of robust boundary states and the famed bulk-boundary correspondence. These features can change drastically for their non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Flore K. Kunst , Vatsal Dwivedi

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a distinctive phenomenon in non-Hermitian systems, characterized by a significant accumulation of eigenstates at system boundaries. While well-understood in one dimension via non-Bloch band theory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Yuncheng Xiong , Ze-Yu Xing , Haiping Hu

In this work, we propose a theory on the two-dimensional non-Hermitian skin effect by resolving two representative minimal models. Specifically, we show that for any given non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, (i) the corresponding region covered by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Zeqi Xu , Bo Pang , Kai Zhang , Zhesen Yang
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