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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

Bulk-boundary correspondence, a central principle in topological matter relating bulk topological invariants to edge states, breaks down in a generic class of non-Hermitian systems that have so far eluded experimental effort. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Lei Xiao , Tianshu Deng , Kunkun Wang , Gaoyan Zhu , Zhong Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

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

Non-Hermitian topological phases bear a number of exotic properties, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect and the breakdown of conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. In this paper, we introduce an unsupervised machine learning approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Li-Wei Yu , Dong-Ling Deng

The non-Hermitian skin effect, i.e. eigenstate condensation at the edges in lattices with open boundaries, is an exotic manifestation of non-Hermitian systems. In Bloch theory, an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is generally used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Stefano Longhi

Anderson (localization) transition is a universal wave phenomenon characterized by a disorder-induced quantum phase transition from extended to localized states, whereas the non-Hermitian skin effect is a generic feature of non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 C. Wang , X. R. Wang , Hechen Ren

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

We propose a general principle of constructing non-Hermitian (NH) operators for insulating and gapless topological phases in any dimension ($d$) that over an extended NH parameter regime feature real eigenvalues and zero-energy topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Daniel J. Salib , Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy

We investigate the interplay between non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and topological properties in two-dimensional topological superconductor. Two kinds of non-Hermiticity are considered. The first is the spin-independent non-reciprocal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-13 Hong Wang , Ming Lu , Jie Liu

Exceptional points and skin effect, as the two distinct hallmark features unique to the non-Hermitian physics, have each attracted enormous interests. Recent theoretical works reveal that the topologically nontrivial exceptional points can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Qiuyan Zhou , Jien Wu , Zhenhang Pu , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Weiyin Deng , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

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

The discovery of non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has opened an exciting direction for unveiling unusual physics and phenomena in non-Hermitian system. Despite notable theoretical breakthroughs, actual observation of NHSE's whole…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-13 Zhongming Gu , He Gao , Haoran Xue , Jensen Li , Zhongqing Su , Jie Zhu

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

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

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

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

Hermitian theories play a major role in understanding the physics of most phenomena. It has been found only in the past decade that non-Hermiticity enables unprecedented effects such as exceptional points, spectral singularities and bulk…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Xiujuan Zhang , Yuan Tian , Jian-Hua Jiang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

The non Hermitian skin effect, where bulk states accumulate at system boundaries, challenges the conventional bulk boundary correspondence. Here we propose a scheme to realize hybrid skin topological states in exciton polariton honeycomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Ruiqi Bao , R. Banerjee , S. Mandal , Huawen Xu , Shiji Li , Junfeng Gao , Timothy C. H. Liew

A unique phenomenon in non-Hermitian systems is the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), namely the boundary localization of continuous-spectrum eigenstates. However, studies on the NHSE in systems without translational invariance are still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Heng Lin , Jinghui Pi , Yunyao Qi , Wei Qin , Franco Nori , Gui-Lu Long

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), a hallmark of non-Hermitian systems, stems from the topological nature of complex energy spectra, typically characterized by a non-zero spectral winding number. Beyond the spinless frameworks considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Moirangthem Sanahal , Subhasis Panda , Snehasish Nandy