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One of the most fascinating phenomena in non-Hermitian systems is the extensive accumulation of the bulk eigenstates under open-boundary conditions which is known as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NSHE). Here, we propose a switchable NHSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Md. Saddam Hossain Razo , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

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

In this work we study topological properties of the one-dimensional Creutz ladder model with different non-Hermitian asymmetric hoppings and on-site imaginary potentials, and obtain phase diagrams regarding the presence and absence of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Hui-Qiang Liang , Linhu Li

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

We study the mechanism for realizing non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) via dissipative couplings, in which the left-right couplings have equal strengths but the phases do not satisfy the complex conjugation. Previous realizations of NHSE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Xinyao Huang , Yaohua Li , Guo-Feng Zhang , Yong-Chun Liu

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit anomalous scaling, a striking departure from conventional bulk laws, rooted in the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Here, we experimentally uncover this scaling and demonstrate its active control in a temporal…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-30 Shulin Wang , Jiawei He , Zhiyuan Yang , Stefano Longhi , Peng Xue

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), featured by the collapse of bulk-band eigenstates into the localized boundary modes of the systems, is one of most striking properties in the fields of non-Hermitian physics. Unique physical phenomena…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-16 Zhao-Fan Cai , Tao Liu , Zhongmin Yang

Non-Hermitian quantum systems, characterized by their ability to model open systems with gain and loss, have unveiled striking phenomena such as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), where eigenstates localize at boundaries under open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chakradhar Rangi , Juana Moreno , Ka-Ming Tam

The non-Hermitian skin effect, nonreciprocity-induced anomalous localization of an extensive number of eigenstates, represents a hallmark of non-Hermitian topological systems with no analogs in Hermitian systems. Despite its significance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Kohei Kawabata , Daichi Nakamura

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a novel localization phenomenon, in which all bulk states in a non-Hermitian system under certain conditions are localized at the edge of the system. Conventionally, most studies of NHSE have dealt…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-05 Issei Takeda , Taiki Yoda , Yuto Moritake , Kenta Takata , Masaya Notomi

Topological modes (TMs) are usually localized at defects or boundaries of a much larger topological lattice. Recent studies of non-Hermitian band theories unveiled the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), by which the bulk states collapse to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Wei Wang , Xulong Wang , Guancong Ma

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has been intensely investigated over the past few years and has unveiled new topological phases, which have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Here we consider the hybridization between the NHSE in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Ruiqi Bao , Huawen Xu , Wouter Verstraelen , 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

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

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

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is one of the most fundamental phenomena in non-Hermitian physics. Although it is established that one-dimensional NHSE originates from the nontrivial spectral winding topology, the topological origin behind…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Qicheng Zhang , Yufei Leng , Liwei Xiong , Yuzeng Li , Kun Zhang , Liangjun Qi , Chunyin Qiu

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions, typically manifesting as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under open boundaries. By bridging the boundaries with a tunable impurity bond, one can access…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Kazuma Saito , Ryo Okugawa , Kazuki Yokomizo , Takami Tohyama , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a phenomenon whereby certain non-Hermitian lattice Hamiltonians, particularly those with nonreciprocal couplings, can host an extensive number of eigenmodes condensed to the boundary, called skin…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Qiang Wang , Changyan Zhu , You Wang , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has emerged as a hallmark of non-Hermitian physics, with far-reaching implications for transport, topology, and sensing. While recent works have uncovered the NHSE in magnetic systems, these analyses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xin Li , Mohamed Al Begaowe , Shu Zhang , Benedetta Flebus

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit nontrivial band topology and a strong sensitivity of the energy spectrum on the boundary conditions. Remarkably, a macroscopic number of bulk states get squeezed toward the lattice edges under open boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi