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The interplay between superconductivity and environmental dissipation, effectively captured by non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, is a new frontier for exotic quantum phases. We explore a PT-symmetric non-Hermitian superconductor with balanced gain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-04 Xuezhu Liu , Ming Lu , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie

Topological phases in quantum and classical systems have been of significant recent interest due to their fascinating physical properties. While a range of different mechanisms to induce topological order have been introduced, a quest for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

We demonstrate that Hermitian, nonlocal parametric pairing processes can induce non-Hermitian topology and skin modes, offering a simple alternative to complex bath engineering. Our model, stabilized by local dissipation and operating in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Markus Bestler , Alexander Dikopoltsev , Oded Zilberberg

It is argued that some phase--transitions observed in models of non-equilibrium wetting phenomena are related to contact processes with long-range interactions. This is investigated by introducing a model where the activation rate of a site…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Ginelli , H. Hinrichsen , R. Livi , D. Mukamel , A. Politi

The interplay of topology, disorder, and non-Hermiticity gives rise to phenomena beyond the conventional classification of quantum phases. We propose a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with quasiperiodically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 Qi-Bo Zeng , Rong Lü

Exceptional points (EPs) are spectral degeneracies unique to non-Hermitian systems which underpin phenomena from enhanced sensing to unconventional topology. While disorder is usually viewed as detrimental, it can also drive topological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-28 Xiaoyu Cheng , Tiantao Qu , Yaqing Yang , Jun Chen , Lei Zhang

Triadic interactions are special types of higher-order interactions that occur when regulator nodes modulate the interactions between other two or more nodes. In presence of triadic interactions, a percolation process occurring on a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Hanlin Sun , Filippo Radicchi , Ginestra Bianconi

The discovery of topological phases has ushered in a new era of condensed matter physics and revealed a variety of natural and artificial materials. They obey the bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC), which guarantees the emergence of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Yu-Peng Ma , Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time symmetry have been found to exhibit real spectra of eigenvalues, indicating a balance between the loss and gain. However, such a balance is not only dependent on the magnitude of loss and gain, but…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-29 Liyou Luo , Jie Luo , Hongchen Chu , Yun Lai

We study a new class of chaotic systems with dynamical localization, where gain or loss mechanisms break the Hermiticity, while allowing for parity-time (PT) symmetry. For a value \gamma_PT of the gain or loss parameter the spectrum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-02-22 Carl T. West , Tsampikos Kottos , Tomaz Prosen

Explosive Percolation describes the abrupt onset of large-scale connectivity that results from a simple random process designed to delay the onset of the transition on an underlying random network or lattice. Explosive percolation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-06 Raissa M. D'Souza , Jan Nagler

Percolation is a cornerstone concept in physics, providing crucial insights into critical phenomena and phase transitions. In this study, we adopt a kinetic perspective to reveal the scaling behaviors of higher-order gaps in the largest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-01 Sheng Fang , Qing Lin , Jun Meng , Bingsheng Chen , Jan Nagler , Youjin Deng , Jingfang Fan

Percolation is a paradigmatic model in disordered systems and has been applied to various natural phenomena. The percolation transition is known as one of the most robust continuous transitions. However, recent extensive studies have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-13 Y. S. Cho , B. Kahng

We prove the existence of non-trivial phase transitions for the intersection of two independent random interlacements and the complement of the intersection. Some asymptotic results about the phase curves are also obtained. Moreover, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Zijie Zhuang

The ease of using optical gain/loss provides a fertile ground for experimental explorations of non-Hermitian (NH) physics. Without gain/loss, can we realize the NH effect in a Hermitian system? The interface between the coupled Hermitian…

Holography-inspired teleportation has recently emerged as a significant area of research in quantum many-body systems. In this work, we investigate the effects of $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric non-unitary deformations on the traversability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Sudhanva Joshi , Sunil Kumar Mishra

We study a generalization of chiral symmetry applicable to non-Hermitian systems and its topological consequences on one-dimensional chains. We uncover a rich family of topological phases hosting several chiral flavors characterized not by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Alex Westström , Wenbu Duan , Jian Li

There has been significant interest in exploring topological disclination states, which effectively probe the band topology of the host material beyond the conventional bulk-edge correspondence. While most studies in this area have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Ruifeng Li , Rimi Banerjee , Subhaskar Mandal , Da Li , Yang Long , Tianchi Ma , Jianwei Liu , Gui-Geng Liu , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang , Er-Ping Li

Chirality, nonreciprocity, and quantum correlations are at the center of a wide range of intriguing effects and applications across natural sciences and emerging quantum technologies. However, the direct link combining these three essential…

We propose a bulk topological invariant for one-dimensional Floquet systems with chiral symmetry which quantifies the particle transport on each sublattice during the evolution. This chiral flow is physically motivated, locally computable,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-17 Xu Liu , Fenner Harper , Rahul Roy