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Robust boundary states epitomize how deep physics can give rise to concrete experimental signatures with technological promise. Of late, much attention has focused on two distinct mechanisms for boundary robustness - topological protection,…

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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

We demonstrate that the non-Hermitian parity-time (PT) symmetric interfaces formed between amplifying and lossy crystals support dissipationless edge states. These PT edge states exhibit gapless spectra in the complex band structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Xiang Ni , Daria Smirnova , Alexander Poddubny , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Non-Hermitian systems, going beyond conventional Hermitian systems, have brought in intriguing concepts such as exceptional points and complex spectral topology as well as exotic phenomena such as non-Hermitian skin effects (NHSEs).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Li-Wei Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

Time crystals are systems that spontaneously break time-translation symmetry, exhibiting repeating patterns in time. Recent work has shown that non-Hermitian Floquet systems can host a time crystalline phase with quasi-long-range order. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-31 Weihua Xie , Michael Kolodrubetz , Vadim Oganesyan , Daniel P. Arovas

Hermitian topological materials are characterized by the nontrivial relation between topological numbers and edge modes, i.e. the bulk-boundary correspondence. In non-Hermitian systems, the conventional correspondence breaks down. Instead,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-22 Shohei Masuda , Masaaki Nakamura

Understanding the interplay between quantum coherence and non-Hermitian features would enable the devising of quantum technologies based on dissipative systems. In turn, quantum coherence can be characterized in terms of the language of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Diego Paiva Pires , Tommaso Macrì

Non-Hermitian topology provides a research frontier for exploring topological phenomena, revealing novel topological effects and driving the development of emergent materials and platforms. Here, we explore the non-Hermitian Chern insulator…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-13 Yi-Ling Zhang , Li-Wei Wang , Yang Liu , Zhao-Xian Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

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

Non-Hermitian boundaries commonly take place in many open quantum systems locally coupled to a surrounding environment. Here, we reveal a type of non-Hermitian effect induced by non-Hermitian boundaries, the non-Hermitian proximity effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-04 Deguang Wu , Jiasong Chen , Wei Su , Rui Wang , Baigeng Wang , D. Y. Xing

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

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

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems, associated with a point gap on the complex energy plane, has attracted great theoretical and experimental interest. Much less is studied on the so-called second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

We propose an idea of eigenstate clustering in non-Hermitian systems. We show that non-orthogonal eigenstates can be clustered around exceptional points and illustrate our idea on some models. We discuss that exponential localization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Cem Yuce

We study how unique features of non-Hermitian lattice systems can be harnessed to improve Hamiltonian parameter estimation in a fully quantum setting. While the so-called non-Hermitian skin effect does not provide any distinct advantage,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Alexander McDonald , Aashish A. Clerk

The complex eigenenergies and non-orthogonal eigenstates of non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique topological phenomena that cannot appear in Hermitian systems. Representative examples are the non-Hermitian skin effect and exceptional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Jung-Wan Ryu , Jae-Ho Han , Chang-Hwan Yi , Hee Chul Park , Moon Jip Park

In this work, we explore interesting consequences arising from the coupling between a clean non-Hermitian chain with skin localization and a delocalized chain of the same length under various boundary conditions (BCs). We reveal that in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sen Mu , Longwen Zhou , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

Quantum computers have long been anticipated to excel in simulating quantum many-body physics. While most previous work has focused on Hermitian physics, we demonstrate the power of variational quantum circuits for resource-efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Yuxuan Zhang , Juan Carrasquilla , Yong Baek Kim

The Dicke model, which describes the collective interaction between an ensemble of atoms and a single-mode photon field, serves as a fundamental framework for studying light-matter interactions and quantum electrodynamic phenomena. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Bin Jiang , Yi-Yang Li , Junjie Liu , Chen Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

Phase transitions are fundamental in nature. A small parameter change near a critical point leads to a qualitative change in system properties. Across a regular phase transition, the system remains in thermal equilibrium and, therefore,…

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