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Non-Hermitian systems with mirror symmetry may exhibit mirror skin effect which is the extreme sensitivity of the spectrum and eigenstates on the boundary condition due to the non-Hermitian topology protected by mirror symmetry. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Hiromu Araki , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

One of unique features of non-Hermitian systems is the extreme sensitive to their boundary conditions, e.g., the emergence of non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under the open boundary conditions, where most of bulk states become localized at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-16 Hao Wang , Jin Liu , Tao Liu , Wen-Bo Ju

The recent topological classification of non-Hermitian `Hamiltonians' is usually interpreted in terms of pure quantum states that decay or grow with time. However, many-body systems with loss and gain are typically better described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Alexandre Chaduteau , Derek K. K. Lee , Frank Schindler

We show that anomalous Floquet topological insulators generate intrinsic, non-Hermitian topology on their boundary. As a consequence, removing a boundary hopping from the time-evolution operator stops the propagation of chiral edge modes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Hui Liu , Ion Cosma Fulga

The synergy between non-Hermitian concepts and topological ideas have led to very fruitful activity in the recent years. Their interplay has resulted in a wide variety of new non-Hermitian topological phenomena being discovered. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Ayan Banerjee , Ronika Sarkar , Soumi Dey , Awadhesh Narayan

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the properties of topological models, leading to exotic features such as the non-Hermitian skin effects and non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence that have no counterparts in Hermitian settings. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Kunkun Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

In non-Hermitian crystals showing the non-Hermitian skin effect, ordinary Bloch band theory and Bloch topological invariants fail to correctly predict energy spectra, topological boundary states, and symmetry breaking phase transitions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Stefano Longhi

We study a system where the two edges of a non-Hermitian lattice with asymmetric nearest-neighbor hopping are connected with two Hermitian lattices with symmetric nearest-neighbor hopping. In the absence of those Hermitian lattices, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-11 Ranjan Modak

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is one of the most fascinating phenomena in non-Hermitian systems, which refers to enormous eigenstates localize at the boundary exponentially under open boundary condition (OBC). For typical NHSE, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Shu-Xuan Wang

This work uncovers a new class of criticality where eigenenergies and eigenstates of non-Hermitian lattice systems jump discontinuously across a critical point in the thermodynamic limit, unlike established Hermitian and non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Sen Mu , Jiangbin Gong

In this work we first show a simple approach to constructing non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with a real spectrum, which are \textit{not} obtained by a non-unitary transformation such as the imaginary gauge transformation. They are given,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Li Ge

Non-Hermitian skin effect, namely that the eigenvalues and eigenstates of a non-Hermitian tight-binding Hamiltonian have significant differences under open or periodic boundary conditions, is a remarkable phenomenon of non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Liang Mao , Tianshu Deng , Pengfei Zhang

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

We revisit the fate of the skin modes in many-body non-Hermitian fermionic systems. Contrary to the single-particle case, the many-body ground state cannot exhibit an exponential localization of all eigenstates due to the Pauli exclusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Faisal Alsallom , Loïc Herviou , Oleg V. Yazyev , Marta Brzezińska

Non-equilibrium dynamics in non-Hermitian systems has attracted significant interest, particularly due to the skin effect and its associated anomalous phenomena. Previous studies have primarily focused on initial states with a definite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Sibo Guo , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang , Zi-Xiang Li

We discuss a generalization of the non-Hermitian skin effect to finite-size photonic structures with neither gain nor loss in the bulk and purely real energy spectrum under periodic boundary conditions (PBC). We show that such systems can…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-09 Alexander Poddubny , Janet Zhong , Shanhui Fan

Non-Hermitian quantum systems, characterized by their ability to model open systems with gain and loss, have unveiled striking phenomena such as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), where eigenstates localize at boundaries under open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chakradhar Rangi , Juana Moreno , Ka-Ming Tam

Non-Hermitian models with real eigenenergies are highly desirable for their stability. Yet, most of the currently known ones are constrained by symmetries such as PT-symmetry, which is incompatible with realizing some of the most exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Boxue Zhang , Qingya Li , Xiao Zhang , Ching Hua Lee

The non-Hermitian skin effect is an anomalous localization phenomenon induced by nonreciprocal dissipation and has attracted considerable attention in recent years both theoretically and experimentally. In this article, we review the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-30 Shu Hamanaka

The past decades have witnessed the flourishing of non-Hermitian physics in non-conservative systems, leading to unprecedented phenomena of unidirectional invisibility, enhanced sensitivity and more recently the novel topological features…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Xiujuan Zhang , Tian Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen