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In this paper, we study the conditions under which on-site dissipations can induce non-Hermitian skin modes in non-Hermitian systems. When the original Hermitian Hamiltonian has spinless time-reversal symmetry, it is impossible to have skin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-02 Yifei Yi , Zhesen Yang

The interplay between band topology and material nonlinearity gives rise to a variety of novel phenomena, such as topological solitons and nonlinearity-induced topological phase transitions. However, most previous studies fall within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Junyao Wu , Rui-Chang Shen , Li Zhang , Fujia Chen , Bingbing Wang , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang , Haoran Xue

The Hatano-Nelson model is one of the most prototypical non-Hermitian models that exhibit the intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases and the concomitant skin effect. These phenomena unique to non-Hermitian topological systems originate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-19 Taozhi Guo , Kohei Kawabata , Ryota Nakai , Shinsei Ryu

Open quantum systems governed by non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonians exhibit unique phenomena, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect, where eigenstates localize at system boundaries. We investigate this effect in a Rashba nanowire coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Carlos Payá , Oliver Solow , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado , Karsten Flensberg

We study the skin effect in a one-dimensional system of finitely many subwavelength resonators with a non-Hermitian imaginary gauge potential. Using Toeplitz matrix theory, we prove the condensation of bulk eigenmodes at one of the edges of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Jinghao Cao , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

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

Phantom relaxation is relaxation with a rate that is not given by a finite spectral gap. Studying the average purity dynamics in a staircase random Haar circuit and the spectral decomposition of a non-symmetric matrix describing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Marko Znidaric

This work uncovers a new class of criticality where eigenenergies and eigenstates of non-Hermitian lattice systems jump discontinuously across a critical point in the thermodynamic limit, unlike established Hermitian and non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Sen Mu , Jiangbin Gong

This work comprehensively investigates the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in a spinless Bernevig- Hughes-Zhang (BHZ)-like model in one dimension. It is generally believed that a system with non-reciprocal hopping amplitudes demonstrates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Dipendu Halder , Saurabh Basu

It is well known that non-Hermitian, non-reciprocal systems may harbor exponentially localized skin modes. However, in this work, we find that, generically, non-Hermiticity gives rise to abrupt and prominent kinks in the semi-classical wave…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-30 Fang Qin , Ruizhe Shen , Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee

Quantum computing's potential for exponential speedup is fundamentally limited by decoherence, a phenomenon arising from environmental interactions. Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, particularly $PT$-symmetric systems, offers a novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Duttatreya , Ipsika Mohanty , Sanjib Dey

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

One among the possible realizations of non-Hermitian systems is based on open quantum systems by omitting quantum jumping terms in the master equation. This is a good approximation at short times where the effects of quantum jumps can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Xiangyu Niu , Jianning Li , S. L. Wu , X. X. Yi

We study unitary evolution of bipartite entanglement in a circuit with nearest-neighbor random gates. Deriving a compact non-unitary description of purity dynamics on qudits we find a sudden transition in the purity relaxation rate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Marko Znidaric

Non-Hermitian systems give rise to distinct topological phenomena, yet their manifestations at temporal interfaces characterized by abrupt changes in system parameters remain largely unex plored. Upon an abrupt alteration of the Hamiltonian…

The non-Hermitian skin effect, characterized by a proliferation of exponentially localized edge modes in open-boundary systems, has led to the discovery of numerous novel physical phenomena that challenge the limits of conventional band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Kai Zhang , Chang Shu , Kai Sun

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

The investigations of the spectral and dynamical delocalization-localization (DL) transition have revealed intriguing features in a wide range of non-Hermitian systems. The present study aims at exploring the spectral and dynamical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-08 Aditi Chakrabarty , Sanjoy Datta

We demonstrate that dislocations in two-dimensional non-Hermitian systems can give rise to density accumulation or depletion through the localization of an extensive number of states. These effects are shown by numerical simulations in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Balaganchi A. Bhargava , Ion Cosma Fulga , Jeroen van den Brink , Ali G. Moghaddam

Non-Hermitian skin effect and photonic topological edge states are of great interest in non-Hermitian physics and optics. However, the interplay between them is largly unexplored. Here, we propose and demonstrate experimentally the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Yeyang Sun , Xiangrui Hou , Tuo Wan , Fangyu Wang , Shiyao Zhu , Zhichao Ruan , Zhaoju Yang