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Localization in non-Hermitian quasicrystals can differ fundamentally from its Hermitian counterpart when non-reciprocity is spatially disordered. Here we study a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper chain with a Bernoulli…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-21 Guolin Nan , Zhijian Li , Feng Mei , Zhihao Xu

A non-Hermitian system is characterized by the violation of energy conservation. As a result of unbalanced gain or loss in the forward and backward directions due to non-reciprocal couplings, the eigenmodes of such systems exhibit extreme…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Haydar Sahin , Ching Hua Lee , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Phase transitions in one-dimensional lattice systems are well established and have been extensively studied within both Hermitian and non-Hermitian frameworks. In this work, we extend this understanding to a more general setting by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-25 S Rahul , A Harshitha

Disorder and non-Hermitian effects together can upend how waves localize. In a 1D disordered chain, the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) can induce Anderson delocalization, defying the usual rule that disorder in low dimensions always…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-03 Wei-Wu Jin , Jin Liu , Xin Wang , Yu-Ran Zhang , Xueqin Huang , Xiaomin Wei , Wenbo Ju , Zhongmin Yang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Topological modes (TMs) are usually localized at defects or boundaries of a much larger topological lattice. Recent studies of non-Hermitian band theories unveiled the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), by which the bulk states collapse to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Wei Wang , Xulong Wang , Guancong Ma

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and nonlinearity can both delocalize topological modes (TMs) from the interface. However, the NHSE requires precise parameter tuning, while nonlinearity in Hermitian systems results in partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Zhao-Fan Cai , Yu-Chun Wang , Yu-Ran Zhang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems depicts the exponential localization of eigenstates at system's boundaries. It has led to a number of counter-intuitive phenomena and challenged our understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Weiwei Zhu , Wei Xin Teo , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), characterized by the accumulation of a macroscopic number of bulk states at system boundaries, is a hallmark of non-Hermitian physics. However, effective control of skin-mode localization in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-09 Zhao-Fan Cai , Yang Li , Yu-Ran Zhang , Xiaomin Wei , Zhongmin Yang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Non-Hermiticity from non-reciprocal hoppings has been shown recently to demonstrate the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under open boundary conditions (OBCs). Here we study the interplay of this effect and the Anderson localization in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Hui Jiang , Li-Jun Lang , Chao Yang , Shi-Liang Zhu , Shu Chen

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging, a special flat-band localization mechanism, has spurred great interest in different areas of physics. AB caging can be harnessed to explore the rich and exotic physics of quantum transport in flatband systems,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-24 Hang Li , Zhaoli Dong , Stefano Longhi , Qian Liang , Dizhou Xie , Bo Yan

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

In the framework of non-Hermitian photonics, we investigate the interplay between disorder and non-Hermiticity in a one-dimensional Hatano-Nelson lattice. While Anderson localization dictates the wave's evolution in conservative random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-20 E. T. Kokkinakis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

Inverse Anderson transitions, where the flat-band localization is destroyed by disorder, have been wildly investigated in quantum and classical systems in the presence of Abelian gauge fields. Here, we report the first investigation on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Weixuan Zhang , Haiteng Wang , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

The non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm (AB) cage is a unique localization phenomenon that confines all possible excitations. This confinement leads to fully flat spectra in momentum space, which are typically accompanied with the degeneracy with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Kunling Zhou , Bowen Zeng , Yong Hu

A novel localization phenomenon, termed erratic non-Hermitian skin localization, has been identified in disordered globally-reciprocal non-Hermitian lattices. Unlike conventional non-Hermitian skin effect and Anderson localization, it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-01 Stefano Longhi

Non-Hermitian topological systems exhibit a plethora of unusual topological phenomena that are absent in the Hermitian systems. One of these key features is the extreme eigenstate localization of eigenstates, also known as non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Haydar Sahin , Ching Hua Lee , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

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

Non-Hermitian systems with complex-valued energy spectra provide an extraordinary platform for manipulating unconventional dynamics of light. Here, we demonstrate the localization of light in an instantaneously reconfigurable non-Hermitian…

In this work, we discuss a non-Hermitian system described via a one-dimensional single-particle tight-binding model, where the non-Hermiticity is governed by random nearest-neighbour tunnellings, such that the left-to-right and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-19 Aitijhya Saha , Debraj Rakshit

The interplay of $\pi$-flux and lattice geometry can yield full localization of quantum dynamics in lattice systems, a striking interference phenomenon known as Aharonov-Bohm caging. At the level of the single-particle energy spectrum, this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-30 Marco Di Liberto , Sebabrata Mukherjee , Nathan Goldman
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