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Complex-valued physical quantities, often non-conserved, represent key phenomena in non-Hermitian systems such as dissipation and localization. Recent advancements in non-Hermitian physics have revealed boundary-condition-sensitive band…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Yung Kim , Sonu Verma , Minwook Kyung , Kyungmin Lee , Wenwen Liu , Shuang Zhang , Bumki Min , Moon Jip Park

The generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ) has been highly successful in characterizing the topology and band structure of non-Hermitian systems. However, its applicability has been challenged in spatially inhomogeneous settings, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Qingya Li , Hui Jiang , Ching Hua Lee

The generalized Brillouin zones (GBZs) are integral in the analysis of non-Hermitian band structures. Conventional wisdom suggests that the GBZ should be connected, where each point can be indexed by the real part of the wavevector, similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Heming Wang , Janet Zhong , Shanhui Fan

It has been known that the bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) of the non-Hermitian skin effect is characterized by the topology of the complex eigenvalue spectra, while the topology of the wave function gives rise to Hermitian BBC with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Sonu Verma , Moon Jip Park

The generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ), which is the core concept of the non-Bloch band theory to rebuild the bulk boundary correspondence in the non-Hermitian topology, appears as a closed loop generally. In this work, we find that even if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Gang-Feng Guo , Xi-Xi Bao , Lei Tan

Periodic-boundary spectrum, open-boundary spectrum, as well as the generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ) are three essential properties of a one-dimensional non-Hermitian system. In this paper we illustrate that the deep connections between them…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-09 Deguang Wu , Jiao Xie , Yao Zhou , Jin An

We provide a systematic and self-consistent method to calculate the generalized Brillouin Zone (GBZ) analytically in one dimensional non-Hermitian systems, which helps us to understand the non-Hermitian bulk-boundary correspondence. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Zhesen Yang , Kai Zhang , Chen Fang , Jiangping Hu

Energy bands of non-Hermitian crystalline systems are described in terms of the generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ) having unique features which are absent in Hermitian systems. In this paper, we show that in one-dimensional non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami

Recently, it has been observed that the Floquet-Bloch transform with real quasiperiodicities fails to capture the spectral properties of non-reciprocal systems. The aim of this paper is to introduce the notion of a generalised Brillouin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Ping Liu , Alexander Uhlmann

The consistency between eigenvalues calculated under open and periodic boundary conditions, named as {\it bulk-bulk correspondence} ($\mathcal{BBC}$), can be destroyed in systems with non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). In spite of the great…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-10 Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hongfang Liu , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a hallmark of non-Hermitian system, yet its generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ) description is restricted to periodic systems. We develop a site-resolved theory via a local scaling transformation (LST),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Chen-Hao Zhao , Jia-Rui Li , Yuping Tian , Wei-Jiang Gong

We consider a 3-dimensional (3D) non-Hermitian exceptional line semimetal model and take open boundary conditions in x, y, and z directions separately. In each case, we calculate the parameter regions where the bulk-boundary correspondence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Zhicheng Zhang , Zhesen Yang , Jiangping Hu

Recently, it was discovered that certain non-Hermitian systems can exhibit qualitative different properties at different system sizes, such as being gapless at small sizes and having topological edge modes at large sizes $L$. This dramatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Fang Qin , Ye Ma , Ruizhe Shen , Ching Hua Lee

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit various interesting and inter-connected spectral, topological, and boundary-sensitive features. By introducing conditional boundary conditions (CBCs) for non-Hermitian quantum systems, we explore a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Yongxu Fu , Yi Zhang

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

In two- and higher-dimensional non-Hermitian lattices, systems can exhibit geometry-dependent bands, where the spectrum and eigenstates under open boundary conditions depend on the bulk geometry even in the thermodynamic limit. Although…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Chenyang Wang , Jinghui Pi , Qinxin Liu , Yaohua Li , Yong-Chun Liu

In some non-Hermitian systems, the eigenstates in the bulk are localized at the boundaries of the systems. This is called the non-Hermitian skin effect, and it has been studied mostly in discrete systems. In the present work, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Kazuki Yokomizo , Taiki Yoda , Shuichi Murakami

We study the characterization of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian systems with on-site disorder. We extend the application of generalized-Brillouin-zone (GBZ) theory to these systems. By proposing a modified GBZ theory,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-03 Hongfang Liu , Ming Lu , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang

We develop a mathematical and numerical framework for studying evanescent waves in subwavelength band gap materials. By establishing a link between the complex Brillouin zone and various Hermitian and non-Hermitian phenomena, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Yannick De Bruijn , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

One of the core concepts from the non-Hermitian skin effect is the extended complex wavevectors (CW) in the generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ), while the origin of CW remains elusive, and further experimental demonstration of GBZ is still…

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