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Non-Hermitian systems exhibit nontrivial band topology and a strong sensitivity of the energy spectrum on the boundary conditions. Remarkably, a macroscopic number of bulk states get squeezed toward the lattice edges under open boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

Progress in the reliable preparation, coherent propagation and efficient detection of many-body states has recently brought collective quantum phenomena of many identical particles into the spotlight. This tutorial introduces the physics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Malte C. Tichy

The anomalous bulk-boundary correspondence in non-Hermitian systems featuring an intricate interplay between skin and boundary modes has attracted enormous theoretical and experimental attention. Still, in dimensions higher than one, this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Fan Yang , Emil J. Bergholtz

In this work we study many-body 'steady states' that arise in the non-Hermitian generalisation of the non-interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model at a finite density of fermions. We find that the hitherto known phase diagrams for this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Ayan Banerjee , Suraj S. Hegde , Adhip Agarwala , Awadhesh Narayan

We investigate the ground state and quantum dynamics of an interacting bosonic chain with the nonreciprocal hopping. In sharp contrast to its Hermitian counterpart, the ground state can support Mott insulators in systems with noninteger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Zuo Wang , Li-Jun Lang , Liang He

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a hallmark of non-Hermitian system, yet its generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ) description is restricted to periodic systems. We develop a site-resolved theory via a local scaling transformation (LST),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Chen-Hao Zhao , Jia-Rui Li , Yuping Tian , Wei-Jiang Gong

We formulate quantum geometry for non-Hermitian systems under open boundary conditions. By defining quantum-geometric quantities in both real-space and non-Bloch representations, we establish a unified framework beyond conventional Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Junsong Sun , Huaiming Guo , Bohm-Jung Yang

A long-standing problem with the many-body approximations for interacting condensed bosons has been the dichotomy between the ``conserving'' and ``gapless'' approximations, which either obey the conservations laws or satisfy the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. C. Strinati , P. Pieri

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

Non-Hermitian phenomena, such as exceptional points, non-Hermitian skin effects, and topologically nontrivial phases have attracted continued attention. In this work, we reveal how interactions and nonreciprocal hopping could collectively…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-04 Yalun Zhang , Longwen Zhou

We demonstrate that crystal defects can act as a probe of intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. In particular, in point-gapped systems with periodic boundary conditions, a pair of dislocations may induce a non-Hermitian skin effect, where an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Frank Schindler , Abhinav Prem

The non-Hermitian skin effect, by which the eigenstates of Hamiltonian are predominantly localized at the boundary, has revealed a strong sensitivity of non-Hermitian systems to the boundary condition. Here we experimentally observe a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Lei Xiao , Wen-Tan Xue , Fei Song , Yu-Min Hu , Wei Yi , Zhong Wang , Peng Xue

Quantum systems with a non-conserved probability can be described by means of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and non-unitary dynamics. In this paper, the case in which the degrees of freedom can be partitioned in two subsets with light and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Alessandro Sergi

Recently, it has become clear that non-hermitian phenomena can be observed not only in open quantum systems experiencing gain and loss but also in equilibrium single-particle properties of strongly correlated systems. However, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Yoshihiro Michishita , Robert Peters

A prominent feature of some one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems is that all right-eigenstates of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian are localized in one end of the chain. The topological and trivial phases are distinguished by the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Motohiko Ezawa

The non-Hermitian edge burst is a phenomenon observed in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics, characterized by a significant accumulation of loss at the boundaries of a system. We present an example of the edge burst effect in a lossy lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 G. Sen , C. Yuce

In the present study, the interplay among interaction, topology, quasiperiodicity, and non-Hermiticity is studied. The hard-core bosons model on a one-dimensional lattice with asymmetry hoppings and quasiperiodic onsite potentials is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-17 Liang-Jun Zhai , Shuai Yin , Guang-Yao Huang

We investigate an $N$-particle Bose-Hubbard dimer with an additional effective decay term in one of the sites. A mean-field approximation for this non-Hermitian many-particle system is derived, based on a coherent state approximation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-10 E. M. Graefe , H. J. Korsch , A. E. Niederle

Quantum devices characterized by non-Hermitian topology are predicted to show highly robust and potentially useful properties, but realizing them has remained a daunting experimental task. This is because non-Hermiticity is often associated…

Within the expanding field of non-Hermitian physics, non-Hermitian pumping has emerged as a key phenomenon, epitomized through the skin effect via extensive boundary mode accumulation modifying the conventional Bloch picture. Beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Ching Hua Lee , Linhu Li , Ronny Thomale , Jiangbin Gong