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The non-Hermitian skin effect and nonreciprocal behavior are sensitive to the boundary conditions, which are unique features of non-Hermitian systems. The eigenenergies will become complex and all eigenstates are localized at the boundary,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Lei Chen , Zhen-Xia Niu , Xingran Xu

It has recently been established that open quantum systems may exhibit a strong spectral sensitivity to boundary conditions, known as the non-Hermitian/Liouvillian skin effect (NHSE/LSE), making the topological properties of the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-15 Pablo Bayona-Pena , Ryo Hanai , Takashi Mori , Hisao Hayakawa

Non-Hermitian physics predicts open quantum system dynamics with unique topological features such as exceptional points and the non-Hermitian skin effect. We show that this new paradigm of topological systems can serve as probes for bulk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Saubhik Sarkar , Francesco Ciccarello , Angelo Carollo , Abolfazl Bayat

Driven-dissipative many-body system supports nontrivial quantum phases absent in equilibrium. As a prominent example, the interplay between coherent driving and collective dissipation can lead to a dynamical quantum phase that spontaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zhuqing Wang , Ruochen Gao , Xiaoling Wu , Berislav Buča , Klaus Mølmer , Li You , Fan Yang

We study a time-dependent non-Hermitian extension of the Sch\"utte-Da~Provid\^encia spin-boson Hamiltonian with complex couplings. A time-dependent Dyson map containing a squeezing transformation maps the model, in an admissible bounded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Andreas Fring , Marta Reboiro

One of the unique features of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians is the non-Hermitian skin effect, namely that the eigenstates are exponentially localized at the boundary of the system. For open quantum systems, a short-time evolution can often be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-01 Fei Song , Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

Far from being limited to a trivial generalization of their Hermitian counterparts, non-Hermitian topological phases have gained widespread interest due to their unique properties. One of the most striking non-Hermitian phenomena is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Kuangyin Deng , Benedetta Flebus

Spectral winding of complex eigenenergies represents a topological aspect unique in non-Hermitian systems, which vanishes in one-dimensional (1D) systems under the open boundary conditions (OBC). In this work, we discover a boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Zuxuan Ou , Yucheng Wang , Linhu Li

The non-Hermitian systems with the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) are very sensitive to the imposed boundary conditions and lattice size, which leads to size-dependent non-Hermitian skin effects. Here, we report the experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Luhong Su , Cui-Xian Guo , Yongliang Wang , Li Li , Xinhui Ruan , Yanjing Du , Shu Chen , Dongning Zheng

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

It is generally believed that the non-Hermitian effect (NHSE), due to its non-reciprocal nature, creates barriers for the appearance of impurity bound states. In this paper, we find that in two and higher dimensions, the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ao Yang , Zixi Fang , Kai Zhang , Chen Fang

Systems with non-Hermitian skin effects are very sensitive to the imposed boundary conditions and lattice size, and thus an important question is whether non-Hermitian skin effects can survive when deviating from the open boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Cui-Xian Guo , Chun-Hui Liu , Xiao-Ming Zhao , Yanxia Liu , Shu Chen

Interacting or nonlinear lattices can host emergent particle-like modes, such as Bogoliubov quasiparticles, whose band topology and other properties are potentially highly tunable. Despite originating in the study of superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Hsuan Lo , You Wang , Rimi Banerjee , Baile Zhang , Y. D. Chong

In this paper, we review our non-Bloch band theory in one-dimensional non-Hermitian tight-binding systems. In our theory, it is shown that in non-Hermitian systems, the Brillouin zone is determined so as to reproduce continuum energy bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami

We use the generalized Bloch theorem formalism of Alase {\it et al.} [{\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 117} 076804 (2016)] to analyze simple one-dimensional tight-binding lattice systems connected by Hermitian bonds (all with the same hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Balázs Hetényi , Balázs Dóra

Band structures of metamaterials described by a nonlinear eigenvalue problem are beyond the existing topological band theory. In this paper, we analyze non-Hermitian topology under the nonlinearity of eigenvalues. Specifically, we elucidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tsuneya Yoshida , Takuma Isobe , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The Hatano-Nelson model is one of the most prototypical non-Hermitian models that exhibit the intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases and the concomitant skin effect. These phenomena unique to non-Hermitian topological systems originate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-19 Taozhi Guo , Kohei Kawabata , Ryota Nakai , Shinsei Ryu

Periodically driven systems, characterised by their inherent non-equilibrium dynamics, are ubiquitously found in both classical and quantum regimes. In the field of photonics, these Floquet systems have begun to provide insight into how…

The complex energy bands of non-Hermitian systems braid in momentum space even in one dimension. Here, we reveal that the non-Hermitian braiding underlies the Hermitian topological physics with chiral symmetry under a general framework that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 W. B. Rui , Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

The exotic physics emerging in non-Hermitian systems with balanced distributions of gain and loss has drawn a great deal of attention in recent years. These systems exhibit phase transitions and exceptional point singularities in their…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-17 Arik Bergman , Robert Duggan , Kavita Sharma , Moshe Tur , Avi Zadok , Andrea Alu