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The extreme sensitivity of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians exhibiting the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has been extensively studied in recent years with well-established theoretical explanations. However, this sensitivity is often overlooked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Xu Feng , Shuo Liu , Shi-Xin Zhang , Shu Chen

For decades, Hermiticity was considered an immutable axiom of quantum mechanics, essential for ensuring real energies and unitary evolution. This perspective has shifted radically, driven by the realization that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Federico Roccati , Federico Balducci

The non-Hermitian skin effect can arise in materials that have asymmetric hoppings between atoms or resonating units, which makes the bulk eigenspectrum sensitive to boundary conditions. When skin effect emerges, eigenstates in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Yi-Xin Xiao , C. T. Chan

Non-Hermiticity naturally breaks down the adiabaticity and thus leads to non-Abelian behaviors in multi-band systems. Here, we study how non-Abelian properties emerge in non-Hermitian systems by considering a multi-band non-Hermitian model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Ziyu Zhou , Zhi-Cong Xu , Li-Jun Lang

Non-Hermitian topological phases bear a number of exotic properties, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect and the breakdown of conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. In this paper, we introduce an unsupervised machine learning approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Li-Wei Yu , Dong-Ling Deng

The one-dimensional Hatano-Nelson model with non-reciprocal hoppings is a prominent example of a relatively simple non-Hermitian quantum-mechanical system, which allows to study various phenomena in open quantum systems without adding extra…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-11 Eduard Naichuk , Ilya M. Eremin , Jeroen van den Brink , Flavio S. Nogueira

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), featured by the collapse of bulk-band eigenstates into the localized boundary modes of the systems, is one of most striking properties in the fields of non-Hermitian physics. Unique physical phenomena…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-16 Zhao-Fan Cai , Tao Liu , Zhongmin Yang

We investigate a non-Hermitian extension of the Su--Schrieffer--Heeger model that incorporates spin-dependent SU(2) gauge fields, represented by non-Abelian couplings between lattice sites, as well as independent nonreciprocal hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Yazhuang Miao , Yiming Zhao , Yong Wang , Jie Qiao , Xiaolong Zhao , Xuexi Yi

Non-Hermitian dynamics is ubiquitous in various physical systems. While recent study shows that such a dynamics leads to an area-law scaling of the entanglement entropy due to the non-Hermitian skin effects, it remains unclear how disorder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kai Li , Ze-Chuan Liu , Yong Xu

Non-Hermitian effects have emerged as a new paradigm for the manipulation of phases of matter that profoundly changes our understanding of non-equilibrium systems, introducing novel concepts such as exceptional points and spectral topology,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Zhen Li , Li-Wei Wang , Xulong Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Guancong Ma , Jian-Hua Jiang

Topological phases of matter are conventionally characterized by the bulk-boundary correspondence in Hermitian systems: The topological invariant of the bulk in $d$ dimensions corresponds to the number of $(d-1)$-dimensional boundary…

Symmetry is one of the cornerstones of modern physics and has profound implications in different areas. In symmetry-protected topological systems, symmetries are responsible for protecting surface states, which are at the heart of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 E. Slootman , W. Cherifi , L. Eek , R. Arouca , E. J. Bergholtz , M. Bourennane , C. Morais Smith

The skin effect and topological edge states in non-Hermitian system have been well-studied, and the second-order skin effect and corner modes have also been proposed in non-Hermitian system recently. In this paper, we construct the nested…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yongxu Fu , Jihan Hu , Shaolong Wan

Topological insulators have been studied intensively over the last decades. Earlier research focused on Hermitian Hamiltonians, but recently, peculiar and interesting properties were found by introducing non-Hermiticity. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-29 Chao Chen Ye , W. L. Vleeshouwers , S. Heatley , V. Gritsev , C. Morais Smith

Topological phases of Hermitian systems are known to exhibit intriguing properties such as the presence of robust boundary states and the famed bulk-boundary correspondence. These features can change drastically for their non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Flore K. Kunst , Vatsal Dwivedi

Non-Hermitian physics has added new ingredients to topological physics, leading to the rising frontier of non-Hermitian topological phases. In this study, we investigate Chern insulator phases emerging from non-Hermitian kagome models with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-13 Li-Wei Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Jian-Hua Jiang

Advances in topological photonics and non-Hermitian optics have drastically changed our perception on how interdisciplinary concepts may empower unprecedented applications. Bridging the two areas could uncover the reciprocity between…

The multipartite non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model is explored as a prototypical example of one-dimensional systems with several sublattice sites for unveiling intriguing insulating and metallic phases with no Hermitian counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Ritu Nehra , Dibyendu Roy

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to unique topological phases that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Such intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases appear even in one dimension while no topological phases appear in one-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit a distinctive phenomenon known as the non-Hermitian skin effect, where an extensive number of eigenstates become localized at the boundaries of a lattice with open boundaries. While the spectral winding number…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-17 Wuping Yang , H. Huang