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It is highly nontrivial to what extent we can deduce the relaxation behavior of a quantum dissipative system from the spectral gap of the Liouvillian that governs the time evolution of the density matrix. We investigate the relaxation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-24 Taiki Haga , Masaya Nakagawa , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda

The Liouvillian skin effect describes the boundary affinity of Liouvillian eignemodes that originates from the intrinsic non-Hermiticity of the Liouvillian superoperators. Dynamically, it manifests as directional flow in the transient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 De-Huan Cai , Wei Yi , Chen-Xiao Dong

Quantum devices characterized by non-Hermitian topology are predicted to show highly robust and potentially useful properties, but realizing them has remained a daunting experimental task. This is because non-Hermiticity is often associated…

The non-Hermitian (NH) skin effect is a truly NH feature, which manifests itself as an accumulation of states, known as skin states, on the boundaries of a system. In this perspective, we discuss several aspects of the NH skin effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Julius T. Gohsrich , Ayan Banerjee , Flore K. Kunst

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 skin effect has been discovered in non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems where all the eigenstates have their amplitudes concentrating to the open boundaries of the systems and decaying exponentially into the bulk. Later, certain open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Ziheng Zhou , Zhenhua Yu

In this paper, we study the conditions under which on-site dissipations can induce non-Hermitian skin modes in non-Hermitian systems. When the original Hermitian Hamiltonian has spinless time-reversal symmetry, it is impossible to have skin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-02 Yifei Yi , Zhesen Yang

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 skin effect, which is unique to non-Hermitian systems, can generate an extensive number of eigenstates localized near the boundary in an open geometry. Here we propose that in 2D and 3D other quantities besides charge density are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Yuhao Ma , Taylor L. Hughes

The non-Hermitian skin effect, nonreciprocity-induced anomalous localization of an extensive number of eigenstates, represents a hallmark of non-Hermitian topological systems with no analogs in Hermitian systems. Despite its significance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Kohei Kawabata , Daichi Nakamura

A unique feature of non-Hermitian systems is the skin effect, which is the extreme sensitivity to the boundary conditions. Here, we reveal that the skin effect originates from intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. Such a topological origin not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

The non-Hermitian skin effect, anomalous localization of an extensive number of eigenstates induced by nonreciprocal dissipation, plays a pivotal role in non-Hermitian topology and significantly influences the open quantum dynamics.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-24 Shu Hamanaka , Kohei Kawabata

In this work, we investigate the fate of the non-Hermitian skin effect in one-dimensional systems that conserve the dipole moment and higher moments of an associated global $\text{U}(1)$ charge. Motivated by field theoretical arguments and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-01 Jacopo Gliozzi , Giuseppe De Tomasi , Taylor L. Hughes

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 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 investigate theoretically tunable non-Hermitian skin effect in systems with gain and loss, and find that bipolar (quadripolar) non-Hermitian skin effect characterized by topological invariants in one (two)-dimensional system. We also…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Wen-Cheng Jiang , Hong Wu , Jian Li , Qing-Xu Li , Jia-Ji Zhu

We study the dynamical consequences of combining the non-Hermitian skin effect with topological edge states. Focusing on the paradigmatic dissipative Hofstadter model, we find that the time-dependent particle density exhibits both chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Ronika Sarkar , Suraj S. Hegde , Awadhesh Narayan , Tobias Meng

We analyze a correlated system in equilibrium with special emphasis on non-Hermitian topology inducing a skin effect. The pseudo-spectrum, computed by the real-space dynamical mean-field theory, elucidates that additional pseudo-eigenstates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Tsuneya Yoshida

Skin effect, experimentally discovered in one dimension, describes the physical phenomenon that on an open chain, an extensive number of eigenstates of a non-Hermitian hamiltonian are localized at the end(s) of the chain. Here in two and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Kai Zhang , Zhesen Yang , Chen Fang

Non-Hermiticity enables macroscopic accumulation of bulk states, named non-Hermitian skin effects. The non-Hermitian skin effects are well-established for single-particle systems, but their proper characterization for general systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Kenji Shimomura , Masatoshi Sato