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We study localization occurring during high speed shear deformations of metals leading to the formation of shear bands. The localization instability results from the competition among Hadamard instability (caused by softening response) and…

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Topological materials exhibit edge-localized scattering-free modes protected by their nontrivial bulk topology through the bulk-edge correspondence in Hermitian systems. While topological phenomena have recently been much investigated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Kazuki Sone , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

Wave scattering structures with amplification and dissipation can be modelled by non-Hermitian systems, opening new ways to control waves at small length scales. In this work, we study the phenomenon of topologically protected edge states…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

Motivated by anomalously large conductivity anisotropy in layered materials, we propose a simple model of randomly spaced potential barriers (mimicking stacking faults) with isotropic impurities in between the barriers. We solve this model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dmitrii L. Maslov , Vladimir I. Yudson , Andres M. Somoza , Miguel Ortuño

The mobility edge (ME) is a fundamental concept in the Anderson localized systems, which marks the energy separating extended and localized states. Although the ME and localization phenomena have been extensively studied in non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-10 Xiang-Ping Jiang , Zhende Liu , Yayun Hu , Lei Pan

Bulk-edge correspondence, with quantized bulk topology leading to protected edge states, is a hallmark of topological states of matter and has been experimentally observed in electronic, atomic, photonic, and many other systems. While…

In a dissipationless linear lattice, spatial disorder or incommensurate modulation induce localization of the lattice eigenstates and block spreading of wave packets. Additionally, incommensurate arrays allow for the metal-insulator…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-02 T. V. Laptyeva , S. V. Denisov , G. V. Osipov , M. V. Ivanchenko

In disordered two dimensional Chern insulators, a single bulk extended mode is predicted to exist per band, up to a critical disorder strength; all the other bulk modes are localized. This behavior contrasts strongly with topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Udvas Chattopadhyay , Sunil Mittal , Mohammad Hafezi , Y. D. Chong

Topological insulators possess protected boundary states which are robust against disorders and have immense implications in both fermionic and bosonic systems. Harnessing these topological effects in non-equilibrium scenarios is highly…

By extending our {\it victory} implementation of the parquet approach to include non-local Coulomb interactions, we study the extended Hubbard model on the two-dimensional square lattice with a particular focus on the competition of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-09 Petra Pudleiner , Anna Kauch , Karsten Held , Gang Li

We characterise non-Hermitian Fabry-P\'erot resonances in high-contrast resonator systems and study the properties of their associated resonant modes from continuous differential models. We consider two non-Hermitian effects: the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Bowen Li , Ping Liu , Jiayu Qiu , Yingjie Shao , Alexander Uhlmann

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), characterized by the accumulation of a macroscopic number of bulk states at system boundaries, is a hallmark of non-Hermitian physics. However, effective control of skin-mode localization in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-09 Zhao-Fan Cai , Yang Li , Yu-Ran Zhang , Xiaomin Wei , Zhongmin Yang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Non-Hermitian band topology can give rise to phenomena with no counterparts in Hermitian systems. A well-known example is the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), where Bloch eigenstates localize at a boundary, induced by a nontrivial spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Hong-Yu Zou , Bing-Bing Wang , Yong Ge , Ke-Qi Zhao , Yu-Qi Chen , Hong-Xiang Sun , Shou-Qi Yuan , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

Exploring topological phases in non-Hermitian systems has attracted significant recent attention. One intriguing question is how topological edge states compete with the non-Hermitian skin effect. Here, we report the experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Chan Tang , Huanhuan Yang , Lingling Song , Xianglong Yao , Peng Yan , Yunshan Cao

Capital to topological insulators, the bulk-boundary correspondence ties a topological invariant computed from the bulk (extended) states with those at the boundary, which are hence robust to disorder. Here we put forward an ordering unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , J. E. Barrios Vargas , L. E. F. Foa Torres

We consider a bulk-membrane-coupled partial differential equation in which a single diffusion equation posed within the unit ball is coupled to a two-component reaction diffusion equation posed on the bounding unit sphere through a linear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-10-21 Daniel Gomez

Three dimensional topological insulators are bulk insulators with $\mathbf{Z}_2$ topological electronic order that gives rise to conducting light-like surface states. These surface electrons are exceptionally resistant to localization by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Yishuai Xu , Janet Chiu , Lin Miao , Haowei He , Zhanybek Alpichshev , A. Kapitulnik , Rudro R. Biswas , L. Andrew Wray

Non-Hermitian skin-edge states emerge only at one edge in one-dimensional nonreciprocal chains, where all states are localized at the edge irrespective of eigenvalues. The bulk topological number is the winding number associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Motohiko Ezawa

The non-Hermitian skin effect can arise in materials that have asymmetric hoppings between atoms or resonating units, which makes the bulk eigenspectrum sensitive to boundary conditions. When skin effect emerges, eigenstates in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Yi-Xin Xiao , C. T. Chan

We study an alloy system where short-ranged, thermally-driven diffusion competes with externally imposed, finite-ranged, athermal atomic exchanges, as is the case in alloys under irradiation. Using a Cahn-Hilliard-type approach, we show…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Raul A. Enrique , Pascal Bellon