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Non-Hermitian skin effects are conventionally manifested as boundary localization of eigenstates in linear systems. In nonlinear settings, however, where eigenstates are no longer well defined, it becomes unclear how skin effects should be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Shu Hamanaka

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

We explore absorbing open-boundary modes in non-Hermitian photonic systems. The modes have a continuum spectrum in the infinite system-size limit and can exhibit the non-Hermitian skin effect. In contrast to the conventional non-Hermitian…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Tetsuyuki Ochiai

In some non-Hermitian systems, the eigenstates in the bulk are localized at the boundaries of the systems. This is called the non-Hermitian skin effect, and it has been studied mostly in discrete systems. In the present work, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Kazuki Yokomizo , Taiki Yoda , Shuichi Murakami

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…

Non-Hermitian skin effect is a basic phenomenon in non-Hermitian system, which means that an extensive number of eigenstates can be localized at the boundary. In this Letter, we systematically investigate the constraints from all internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Shu-Xuan Wang

The non-Hermitian skin effects are representative phenomena intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems: the energy spectra and eigenstates under the open boundary condition (OBC) drastically differ from those under the periodic boundary condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Yusuke O. Nakai , Nobuyuki Okuma , Daichi Nakamura , Kenji Shimomura , Masatoshi Sato

The non-Hermitian skin effect under open boundary conditions is widely believed to originate from the intrinsic spectral topology under periodic boundary conditions. If the eigenspectra under periodic boundary conditions have no spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Chun-Hui Liu , Haiping Hu , Shu Chen , Xiong-Jun Liu

We investigate the roles of non-Hermitian topology in spectral properties and entanglement structures of open systems. In terms of spectral theory, we give a unified understanding of two interpretations of non-Hermitian topology: quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

The past decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in topological materials, and a lot of mathematical concepts have been introduced in condensed matter physics. Among them, the bulk-boundary correspondence is the central topic in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems, associated with a point gap on the complex energy plane, has attracted great theoretical and experimental interest. Much less is studied on the so-called second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

The non-Hermitian skin effect dramatically reshapes the energy bands of non-Hermitian systems, meaning that the usual Bloch band theory is fundamentally inadequate as their characterization. The non-Bloch band theory, in which the concept…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Hong-Yi Wang , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

The non-Hermitian skin effect is an intriguing physical phenomenon, in which all eigen-modes of a non-Hermitian lattice become localized at boundary regions. While such an exotic behavior has been demonstrated in various physical platforms,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mathieu Padlewski , Romain Fleury , Hervé Lissek

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 C. Yuce

We illuminate the fundamental mechanism responsible for the transition between the non-Hermitian skin effect and defect-induced localization in the bulk. We study a Hamiltonian with non-reciprocal couplings that exhibits the skin effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Bryn Davies , Silvio Barandun , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Richard V. Craster , Habib Ammari

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-Hermitian lattices with non-reciprocal couplings under open boundary conditions are known to possess linear modes exponentially localized on one edge of the chain. This phenomenon, dubbed non-Hermitian skin effect, induces all input…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-25 Bertin Many Manda , Ricardo Carretero-González , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Vassos Achilleos

In a class of non-Hermitian quantum walk in lossy lattices with open boundary conditions, an unexpected peak in the distribution of the decay probabilities appears at the edge, dubbed edge burst. It is proposed that the edge burst is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 C. Yuce , H. Ramezani

The non-Hermitian skin effect describes the concentration of an extensive number of eigenstates near the boundaries of certain dissipative systems. This phenomenon has raised a huge interest in different areas of physics, including…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

We study the time evolution processes of non-Hermitian systems under the open boundary condition and confirm that the dynamical skin effect exists in non-Hermitian systems analytically, and unveil the mechanism of its formation, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Haoshu Li , Shaolong Wan