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1D chains with non-reciprocal tunneling realizing the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) have attracted considerable interest in the last years whereas their experimental realization in real space remains limited to a few examples. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Pavel Kokhanchik , Dmitry Solnyshkov , Guillaume Malpuech

Multimode nonlinear optical systems are highly valued for their ability to withstand large amounts of optical power, transmit data with high bandwidth, perform physical computations, generate quantum correlations, and much more. For many of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jamison Sloan , Sachin Vaidya , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljačić

Typically, scaling up the size of a system does not change the shape of its energy spectrum, other than making it denser. Exceptions, however, occur in the new phenomenon of non-Hermitian skin criticality, where closely competing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Xiaoyu Cheng , Hui Jiang , Jun Chen , Lei Zhang , Yee Sin Ang , Ching Hua Lee

A unique feature of non-Hermitian systems is the skin effect, which is the extreme sensitivity to the boundary conditions. Here, we reveal that the skin effect originates from intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. Such a topological origin not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

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

The non-Hermitian skin effect is a unique phenomenon in which an extensive number of eigenstates are localized at the boundaries of a non-Hermitian system. Recent studies show that the non-Hermitian skin effect is significantly suppressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Chang-An Li , Björn Trauzettel , Titus Neupert , Song-Bo Zhang

As a distinctive feature unique to non-Hermitian systems, non-Hermitian skin effect displays fruitful exotic phenomena in one or higher dimensions, especially when conventional topological phases are involved. Among them, hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Junpeng Wu , Riyi Zheng , Jialuo Liang , Manzhu Ke , Jiuyang Lu , Weiyin Deng , Xueqin Huang , Zhengyou Liu

The bulk-boundary or bulk-edge correspondence is a principle relating surface confined states to the topological classification of the bulk. By combining non-Hermitian ingredients in terms of gain or loss with media that violate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Penglin Gao , Morten Willatzen , Johan Christensen

We study the interplay of two distinct non-Hermitian parameters: directional coupling and onsite gain-loss, together with topology, in coupled one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. The SSH model represents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

In this paper, we investigate the non-Hermitian skin effect in a semi-infinite Fock-state lattice, where the inherent coupling scales as \sqrt{n}. By analytically solving a non-uniform, non-reciprocal SSH model, we demonstrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Zhi Jiao Deng , Xing Yao Mi , Ruo Kun Cai , Chun Wang Wu , Ping Xing Chen

Recently, much attention has been paid to uncovering the influence of dissipation on a quantum system, particularly on how the non-Hermitian (NH) terms modify the band topology of topological materials and reshape the profile of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-14 Fei Yang , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-peng Kou

The interplay between non-Hermitian topology and disorder remains a central puzzle in open quantum systems. While the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is known to be robust against weak perturbations, its fate under strong disorder,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-04 Ali Tozar

We unveil an exotic phenomenon arising from the intricate interplay between non-Hermiticity and many-body physics, namely an occupation-dependent particle separation for hardcore bosons in a one-dimensional lattice driven by uni-directional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-08 Yi Qin , Linhu Li

In this work, we describe a novel localization phenomena, the so-called topological defect accumulation, occurring in a non-Hermitian chain with an arbitrary number of defect sites. Specifically, it refers to the localization and…

Physically, one tends to think of non-Hermitian systems in terms of gain and loss: the decay or amplification of a mode is given by the imaginary part of its energy. Here, we introduce an alternative avenue to the realm of non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 S. Franca , V. Könye , F. Hassler , J. van den Brink , I. C. Fulga

In this contribution paper, we construct a two-dimensional non-Hermitian (NH) photonic crystal (PhC) to prototype its anisotropic non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) for experimental proposal. Based on the tight-binding model for Lieb lattice…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhi-Kang Xiong , Tianlei Wen , Y. Liu , Hai Lin , Bin Zhou

We introduce a dissipative lattice gauge model that exhibits the many-body version of the non-Hermitian skin effect. The dissipative couplings between dynamical gauge fields on the lattice links and the surrounding environment generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Yu-Min Hu , Zijian Wang , Biao Lian , Zhong Wang

Open quantum systems governed by non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonians exhibit unique phenomena, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect, where eigenstates localize at system boundaries. We investigate this effect in a Rashba nanowire coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Carlos Payá , Oliver Solow , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado , Karsten Flensberg

The current understanding of the role of topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems and its far-reaching physical consequences observable in a range of dissipative settings are reviewed. In particular, how the paramount and genuinely NH concept…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Emil J. Bergholtz , Jan Carl Budich , Flore K. Kunst

The past decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in topological materials, and a lot of mathematical concepts have been introduced in condensed matter physics. Among them, the bulk-boundary correspondence is the central topic in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato