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The breakdown of the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence due to non-Hermitian skin effect leads to the non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence in the generalized Brillouin zone. Inspired by the case of the equivalence between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Y. Z. Han , J. S. Liu , C. S. Liu

We provide a systematic and self-consistent method to calculate the generalized Brillouin Zone (GBZ) analytically in one dimensional non-Hermitian systems, which helps us to understand the non-Hermitian bulk-boundary correspondence. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Zhesen Yang , Kai Zhang , Chen Fang , Jiangping Hu

The complex eigenenergies and non-orthogonal eigenstates of non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique topological phenomena that cannot appear in Hermitian systems. Representative examples are the non-Hermitian skin effect and exceptional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Jung-Wan Ryu , Jae-Ho Han , Chang-Hwan Yi , Hee Chul Park , Moon Jip Park

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit fascinating characteristics such as non-Hermitian topological phenomena and skin effect, yet their studies are limited by the intrinsic difficulties associated with their eigenvalue problems, especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Guang Yang , Yongkang Li , Yongxu Fu , Zhenduo Wang , Yi Zhang

The emergence of the non-Hermitian skin effect, distinguished by the exponential localization of bulk states onto boundaries in open systems, has redefined the conventional band theory. It can be established through the generalized…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiuchun Meng , Lichao Sun , Xiumei Wang , Dandan Zhu , Xingping Zhou

The non-Hermitian skin effect describes the phenomenon of exponential localization of single-particle eigenstates near the boundary of the system. We consider its generalization to the many-body regime by investigating a general class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 He-Ran Wang , Zijian Wang , Zhong Wang

We numerically study topological effects of electromagnetic (EM) waves in a two-dimensional (2D) non-Hermitian photonic crystal (PhC) composed of lossy magneto-optical materials. In this system, not only the EM wavefunctions but also the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Huyen Thanh Phan , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Common intuition in physics is based on the concept of orthogonal eigenmodes. Those are well de- fined solutions of Hermitian equations used to describe many physical situations, from quantum mechanics to acoustics. A large variety of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 H. Lourenço-Martins , P. Das , L. H. G. Tizei , R. Weil , M. Kociak

We analyze impacts of crystalline symmetry on the non-Hermitian skin effects. Focusing on mirror symmetry, we propose a novel type of skin effects, a mirror skin effect, which results in significant dependence of energy spectrum on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Tsuneya Yoshida , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The study of band topology in photonic crystals was primarily focused on near-field effects, including edge states and high order corner states. However, this work investigated the polarization distribution of radiated fields for photonic…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-27 Zhang Jiawei , Liu Andong , Wang Jin , Dong Zheng-Gao

We develop the topological band theory for systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose energy spectra are generally complex. After generalizing the notion of gapped band structures to the non-Hermitian case, we classify "gapped"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Huitao Shen , Bo Zhen , Liang Fu

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

Quantum Hall systems host chiral edge states extending along the one-dimensional boundary of any two-dimensional sample. In solid state materials, the edge states serve as perfectly robust transport channels that produce a quantised Hall…

It has been known that the bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) of the non-Hermitian skin effect is characterized by the topology of the complex eigenvalue spectra, while the topology of the wave function gives rise to Hermitian BBC with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Sonu Verma , Moon Jip Park

Non-Hermitian lattices can host the non-Hermitian skin effect, a boundary-induced collapse of all bulk eigenstates into exponentially localized edge modes. This effect underlies anomalous bulk-boundary correspondence and remarkable…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rohith Srikanth , Sashank Kaushik Sridhar , Avik Dutt

This paper shows that the skin effect in systems of non-Hermitian subwavelength resonators is robust with respect to random imperfections in the system. The subwavelength resonators are highly contrasting material inclusions that resonate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Ping Liu

We study the characterization of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian systems with on-site disorder. We extend the application of generalized-Brillouin-zone (GBZ) theory to these systems. By proposing a modified GBZ theory,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-03 Hongfang Liu , Ming Lu , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang

The Generalized Brillouin Zone (GBZ) encodes how lattice momentum is complex-deformed due to non-Hermitian skin accumulation, and has proved essential in restoring bulk-boundary correspondences. However, we find that generically, the GBZ is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-17 Haiyu Meng , Yee Sin Ang , Ching Hua Lee

A hallmark of topological band theory in periodic media is that bulk properties are not affected by boundary conditions. Remarkably, in certain non-Hermitian lattices the bulk properties are largely affected by boundaries, leading to such…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-15 Stefano Longhi

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…

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