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The concept of non-Hermiticity has expanded the understanding of band topology leading to the emergence of counter-intuitive phenomena. One example is the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), which involves the concentration of eigenstates at…

Parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry is a cornerstone of non-Hermitian physics as it ensures real energies for stable experimental realization of non-Hermitian phenomena. In this work, we propose $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry as a paradigm for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Zhoutao Lei , Ching Hua Lee , Linhu Li

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

We investigate the interplay between non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and topological properties in two-dimensional topological superconductor. Two kinds of non-Hermiticity are considered. The first is the spin-independent non-reciprocal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-13 Hong Wang , Ming Lu , Jie Liu

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

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

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

The topology of non-Hermitian systems is drastically shaped by the non-Hermitian skin effect, which leads to the generalized bulk-boundary correspondence and non-Bloch band theory. The essential part in formulations of bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Fei Song , Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a unique phenomenon studied intensively in non-Hermitian systems during the past few years. In this work, we discuss the energy dependence of NHSE by introducing nonreciprocity beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Qi-Bo Zeng

In previous studies, the topological invariants of 1D non-Hermitian systems have been defined in open boundary condition (OBC) to satisfy the bulk-boundary correspondence. The extreme sensitivity of bulk energy spectra to boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Eunwoo Lee , Hyunjik Lee , Bohm-Jung Yang

The recently discovered non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) manifests the breakdown of current classification of topological phases in energy-nonconservative systems, and necessitates the introduction of non-Hermitian band topology. So far,…

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is an intriguing phenomenon in which an extensive number of bulk eigenstates localize at the boundaries of a non-Hermitian system with non-reciprocal hoppings. Here we study the interplay of this effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yin Huang , Wenna Zhang , Yu Zhou , Yuecheng Shen , Georgios Veronis , Wenchen Luo

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

The bulk-boundary or bulk-edge correspondence is a principle relating surface confined states to the topological classification of the bulk. By combining non-Hermitian ingredients in terms of gain or loss with media that violate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Penglin Gao , Morten Willatzen , Johan Christensen

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) fundamentally invalidates the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC), leading topological diagnostics into a crisis. While the non-Bloch polarization $P_{\beta}$ defined on the generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Xudong Zhang , Zhaoyu Sun , Bin Guo

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), characterized by a macroscopic accumulation of eigenstates at the edge of a system with open boundaries, is often ascribed to a non-trivial point-gap topology of the Bloch Hamiltonian. We revisit this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 J. Sirker

Non-Hermitian (NH) lattice Hamiltonians display a unique kind of energy gap and extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions. Due to the NH skin effect, the separation between edge and bulk states is blurred and the (conventional)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Matteo Brunelli , Clara C. Wanjura , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Dramatically different from the Hermitian systems, the conventional Bulk-Boundary Correspondence (BBC) is broken in the non-Hermitian systems. In this article, we use edge entanglement entropy to characterize the topological properties of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Weitao Chen , Liangtao Peng , Hantao Lu , Xiancong Lu

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), the accumulation of eigen wavefunctions at boundaries of open systems, underlies a variety of exotic properties that defy conventional wisdom. While NHSE and its intriguing impact on band topology and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-16 Qian Liang , Dizhou Xie , Zhaoli Dong , Haowei Li , Hang Li , Bryce Gadway , Wei Yi , Bo Yan

We examine a non-Hermitian (NH) tight-binding system comprising of two orbitals per unit cell and their electrical circuit analogues. We distinguish the PT-symmetric and non-PT symmetric cases characterised by non-reciprocal nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Dipendu Halder , Ronny Thomale , Saurabh Basu