English
Related papers

Related papers: Aufbau Principle for Non-Hermitian Systems

200 papers

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), which drives bulk states toward system boundaries, modifies bulk-boundary correspondence and complicates the identification of topological edge modes. Although breaking translational symmetry is known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-25 F. Iwase

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit striking exceptions from the paradigmatic bulk-boundary correspondence, including the failure of bulk Bloch band invariants in predicting boundary states and the (dis)appearance of boundary states at parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Flore K. Kunst , Elisabet Edvardsson , Jan Carl Budich , Emil J. Bergholtz

Non-Hermitian physics has emerged as a rapidly advancing field of research, revealing a range of novel phenomena and potential applications. Traditional non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are typically simulated by constructing asymmetric couplings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Huawei Zhao , Xinlei Liu , Xinyao Huang , Guofeng Zhang

Non-Hermitian theory is a theoretical framework that excels at describing open systems. It offers a powerful tool in the characterization of both the intrinsic degrees of freedom (DOFs) of a system and the interactions with the external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Kun Ding , Chen Fang , Guancong Ma

We study the properties of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in parabolic traps, with coherence length large compared to the system size. In this limit, it has been shown that unusual groundstates form which cannot be understood within a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 N. R. Cooper , N. K. Wilkin

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians provide an alternative perspective on the dynamics of quantum and classical systems coupled non-conservatively to an environment. Once primarily an interest of mathematical physicists, the theory of non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Hilary M. Hurst , Benedetta Flebus

Rich phenomenology emerges at the intersection of non-Hermiticity and many-body dynamics, yet physically realizable implementations remain challenging. In this work, we propose a general formalism that maps non-Hermitian many-body…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Zichang Hao , Wei Jie Chan , Ching Hua Lee

Non-Hermitian band topology can give rise to phenomena with no counterparts in Hermitian systems. A well-known example is the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), where Bloch eigenstates localize at a boundary, induced by a nontrivial spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Hong-Yu Zou , Bing-Bing Wang , Yong Ge , Ke-Qi Zhao , Yu-Qi Chen , Hong-Xiang Sun , Shou-Qi Yuan , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

We study the dynamics of a Bose-Hubbard model coupled to an engineered environment which in the non-interacting limit is described by the celebrated Hatano-Nelson model. At strong interactions, two bosons occupying the same site form a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Pietro Brighi , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Non-Hermitian systems can manifest rich static and dynamical properties at their exceptional points (EPs). Here, we identify yet another class of distinct phenomena that is hinged on EPs, namely, the emergence of a series of non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Zuo Wang , Liang He

The neutron star's crust and mantel are typical examples of non-uniform bulk systems with spacial localisations. When modelling such systems at low temperatures, as is the case in the crust, one has to work with antisymmetrised many-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-04-18 Klaas Vantournhout , Hans Feldmeier

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

Confined quantum systems involving $N$ identical interacting fermions are found in many areas of physics, including condensed matter, atomic, nuclear and chemical physics. In a previous series of papers, a manybody perturbation method that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 D. K. Watson

A non-Hermitian system is characterized by the violation of energy conservation. As a result of unbalanced gain or loss in the forward and backward directions due to non-reciprocal couplings, the eigenmodes of such systems exhibit extreme…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Haydar Sahin , Ching Hua Lee , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The topology of non-Hermitian systems is fundamentally changed by the non-Hermitian skin effect, which leads to the generalized bulk-boundary correspondence. Based on the non-Bloch band theory, we get insight into the interplay between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-28 Xaing Ji , Wenchen Ding , Yuanping Chen , Xiaosen Yang

Recently, topological quantum states of non-Hermitian systems, exhibiting rich new exotic states, have attracted great attention in condensed-matter physics. As for the demonstration, most of non-Hermitian topological phenomena previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Huaiqiang Wang , Jiawei Ruan , Haijun Zhang

The non-Hermitian skin effect describes the concentration of an extensive number of eigenstates near the boundaries of certain dissipative systems. This phenomenon has raised a huge interest in different areas of physics, including…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zheng Wei , Ji-Yao Fan , Kui Cao , Xin-Ran Ma , Cui-Xian Guo , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-Peng Kou

A paradigm model of modern atom optics is studied, strongly interacting ultracold bosons in an optical lattice. This many-body system can be artificially opened in a controlled manner by modern experimental techniques. We present results…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-23 S. Wimberger , C. A. Parra-Murillo , G. Kordas

Advancing our understanding of non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum many-body systems remains among the greatest challenges in physics. Here, we report on the experimental observation of a paradigmatic many-body problem, namely the…