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Recent studies of non-Hermitian periodic lattices unveiled the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), in which the bulk modes under the periodic boundary conditions (PBC) become skin modes under open boundary conditions (OBC). The NHSE is a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-17 Wei Wang , Mengying Hu , Xulong Wang , Guancong Ma , Kun Ding

One of the most fascinating phenomena in non-Hermitian systems is the extensive accumulation of the bulk eigenstates under open-boundary conditions which is known as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NSHE). Here, we propose a switchable NHSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Md. Saddam Hossain Razo , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Non-Hermitian physics has attracted considerable attention in recent years, particularly the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) for its extreme sensitivity and non-locality. While the NHSE has been physically observed in various classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Ruizhe Shen , Tianqi Chen , Bo Yang , Ching Hua Lee

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

In this study, we systematically explore the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and its associated complex-frequency detection in the context of a frequency-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. This Hamiltonian arises from the self-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Juntao Huang , Jiangping Hu , Zhesen Yang

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a phenomenon where the bulk states tend to the boundary within a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian system, with broad applications across various fields. A comprehensive understanding of anomalies in skin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Xu Chao , Guan Zhiqiang , Xu Hongxing

Chiral surface waves are surface-localized modes that propagate unidirectionally along a boundary, enabling directed transport and minimal back-scattering. While first identified in quantum systems, they were recently shown to emerge in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 Cheng-Tai Lee , Tomer Markovich

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…

The bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) relates in-gap boundary modes to bulk topological invariants. In certain non-Hermitian topological systems, conventional BBC becomes invalid in the presence of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Rijia Lin , Linhu Li

Decoherence and dissipation, arising from unavoidable interactions with the environment, can exert a dual influence on transport in physical systems, suppressing coherent propagation while inducing diffusion and mitigating localization in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Kunkun Wang , Lei Xiao , Stefano Longhi , Peng Xue

In this work, we explore interesting consequences arising from the coupling between a clean non-Hermitian chain with skin localization and a delocalized chain of the same length under various boundary conditions (BCs). We reveal that in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sen Mu , Longwen Zhou , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

Non-Hermitian physics has greatly enriched our understanding of nonequilibrium phenomena and uncovered novel effects such as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) that has profoundly revolutionized the field. NHSE is typically predicted in…

Distant boundaries in linear non-Hermitian lattices can dramatically change energy eigenvalues and corresponding eigenstates in a nonlocal way. This effect is known as non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Combining non-Hermitian skin effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 C. Yuce

Unlike their Hermitian counterparts, non-Hermitian (NH) systems may display an exponential sensitivity to boundary conditions and an extensive number of edge-localized states in systems with open boundaries, a phenomena dubbed the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-14 Jahan Claes , Taylor L. Hughes

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has emerged as a distinctive phenomenon enabling non-Bloch wave manipulation. However, it has been limited to discrete lattices requiring fine-tuned onsite gain/loss or asymmetric couplings. Here, moving…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yuan Tian , Nankun Gao , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

The classification of point gap topology in all local non-Hermitian symmetry classes has been recently established. However, many entries in the resulting periodic table have only been discussed in a formal setting and still lack a physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 M. Michael Denner , Titus Neupert , Frank Schindler

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), a hallmark of non-Hermitian systems, stems from the topological nature of complex energy spectra, typically characterized by a non-zero spectral winding number. Beyond the spinless frameworks considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Moirangthem Sanahal , Subhasis Panda , Snehasish Nandy

We consider conditions for the existence of boundary modes in non-Hermitian systems with edges of arbitrary co-dimension. Through a universal formulation of formation criteria for boundary modes in terms of local Green functions, we outline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Dan S. Borgnia , Alex Jura Kruchkov , Robert-Jan Slager

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a phenomenon whereby certain non-Hermitian lattice Hamiltonians, particularly those with nonreciprocal couplings, can host an extensive number of eigenmodes condensed to the boundary, called skin…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Qiang Wang , Changyan Zhu , You Wang , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong

The interplay between topology and non-Hermiticity gives rise to exotic dynamic phenomena that challenge conventional wave-packet propagation and entanglement dynamics. While recent studies have established the non-Hermitian skin effect…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-01 Li-Wei Wang , Bolun Hu , Haixiao Zhang , Kefan Sun , Ying Cheng , Jian-Hua Jiang