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Subskin modes are distinct from conventional skin modes as they localize not at the system's edge but rather below the edge. Unlike skin modes, where a substantial number of them can accumulate at the boundaries of a system due to the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-26 C. Yuce

Non-Hermitian skin effect(NHSE) describes a unique non-Hermitian phenomenon that all eigen-modes are localized near the boundary, and has profound impact on a wide range of bulk properties. In particular, topological systems with NHSE have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-29 Lihong Zhou , Haowei Li , Wei Yi , Xiaoling Cui

This work comprehensively investigates the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in a spinless Bernevig- Hughes-Zhang (BHZ)-like model in one dimension. It is generally believed that a system with non-reciprocal hopping amplitudes demonstrates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Dipendu Halder , Saurabh Basu

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

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

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) describes the exponential localization of all eigenstates toward boundaries in non-Hermitian systems, and has attracted intense research interest of late. Here we theoretically propose a scheme in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Ziguang Lin , Yiheng Lin , Wei Yi

Non-Hermitian effects have emerged as a new paradigm for the manipulation of phases of matter that profoundly changes our understanding of non-equilibrium systems, introducing novel concepts such as exceptional points and spectral topology,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Zhen Li , Li-Wei Wang , Xulong Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Guancong Ma , Jian-Hua Jiang

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

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a well-known phenomenon in open topological systems that causes a large number of eigenstates to become localized at the boundary. Although many aspects of its theory have been investigated in linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Hamed Ghaemi-Dizicheh

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

Higher-order topology realizes topologically robust corner modes as a manifestation of nontriviality. We theoretically propose non-Hermitian skin effects which stem from second-order topology of chiral-symmetric Hermitian systems. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ryo Okugawa , Ryo Takahashi , Kazuki Yokomizo

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), which drives bulk states toward system boundaries, modifies bulk-boundary correspondence and complicates the identification of topological edge modes. Although breaking translational symmetry is known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-25 F. Iwase

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 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

The study of topological states has developed rapidly in electric circuits, which permits flexible fabrications of non-Hermitian systems by introducing non-Hermitian terms. Here, nonreciprocal coupling terms are realized by utilizing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Bin Liu , Yang Li , Bin Yang , Xiaopeng Shen , Yuting Yang , Zhi Hong Hang , Motohiko Ezawa

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to unique topological phases without Hermitian analogs. However, the effective field theory has yet to be established. Here, we develop a field-theoretical description of the intrinsic non-Hermitian topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to distinctive topological phenomena absent in Hermitian systems. However, connection between such intrinsic non-Hermitian topology and Hermitian topology has remained largely elusive. Here, considering the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Shu Hamanaka , Tsuneya Yoshida , Kohei Kawabata

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

Non-Hermitian skin effect denotes the exponential localization of a large number of eigen-states in a non-Hermitian lattice under open boundary conditions. Such a non-Hermiticity-induced skin effect can offset the penetration depth of…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-17 Qinghui Yan , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang

The hybrid skin-topological effect (HSTE) has recently been proposed as a mechanism where topological edge states collapse into corner states under the influence of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). However, directly observing this…