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The non-Hermitian skin effect is an intriguing physical phenomenon, in which all eigen-modes of a non-Hermitian lattice become localized at boundary regions. While such an exotic behavior has been demonstrated in various physical platforms,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mathieu Padlewski , Romain Fleury , Hervé Lissek

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

This paper shows that the skin effect in systems of non-Hermitian subwavelength resonators is robust with respect to random imperfections in the system. The subwavelength resonators are highly contrasting material inclusions that resonate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Ping Liu

Localization is a pervasive phenomenon across physics, shaping transport from electrons in solids to light and sound in engineered media. In traditional settings, disorder strongly impedes transport, resulting in dynamical localization or,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-28 Jia-Xin Zhong , Jee Woo Kim , Stefano Longhi , Yun Jing

Anderson localization and non-Hermitian skin effect are two paradigmatic wave localization phenomena, resulting from wave interference and the intrinsic non-Hermitian point gap, respectively. In this study, we unveil a novel localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Cui-Xian Guo , Luhong Su , Yongliang Wang , Li Li , Jinzhe Wang , Xinhui Ruan , Yanjing Du , Dongning Zheng , Shu Chen , Haiping Hu

The problem of a single Hermitian impurity has long served as a cornerstone in condensed matter physics, offering fundamental insights into the mechanisms of Anderson localization. Yet, despite the increased interest in the spectral and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-24 E. T. Kokkinakis , I. Komis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems depicts the exponential localization of eigenstates at system's boundaries. It has led to a number of counter-intuitive phenomena and challenged our understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Weiwei Zhu , Wei Xin Teo , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

Non-Hermiticity and dephasing, collaborating in an unusual wave packet dynamics, realizes unconventional entanglement evolution in a disordered, interacting and asymmetric (non-reciprocal) quantum medium. Taking the Hatano-Nelson model as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-14 Takahiro Orito , Ken-Ichiro Imura

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is an intriguing phenomenon in which an extensive number of bulk eigenstates localize at the boundaries of a non-Hermitian system with non-reciprocal hoppings. Here we study the interplay of this effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yin Huang , Wenna Zhang , Yu Zhou , Yuecheng Shen , Georgios Veronis , Wenchen Luo

The impact of disorder on wave transport has been extensively studied in Hermitian systems, where static randomness gives rise to Anderson localization. In non-Hermitian lattices, static disorder can lead to peculiar transport features,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-01 I. Komis , E. T. Kokkinakis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

We illuminate the fundamental mechanism responsible for the transition between the non-Hermitian skin effect and defect-induced localization in the bulk. We study a Hamiltonian with non-reciprocal couplings that exhibits the skin effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Bryn Davies , Silvio Barandun , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Richard V. Craster , Habib Ammari

Potential disorder in 1D leads to Anderson localization of the entire spectrum. Upon sacrificing hermiticity by adding non-reciprocal hopping, the non-Hermitian skin effect competes with localization. We find another route for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-27 Liang-Hong Mo , Zhenyu Xiao , Roderich Moessner , Hongzheng Zhao

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

We investigate a one-dimensional tight-binding lattice with asymmetrical couplings and various type of nonlinearities to study nonlinear non-Hermitian skin effect. Our focus is on the exploration of nonlinear skin modes through a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-15 C. Yuce

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and nonlinearity can both delocalize topological modes (TMs) from the interface. However, the NHSE requires precise parameter tuning, while nonlinearity in Hermitian systems results in partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Zhao-Fan Cai , Yu-Chun Wang , Yu-Ran Zhang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

We study Anderson localization and propagation of partially-spatially incoherent wavepackets in linear disordered potentials, motivated by the insight that interference phenomena resulting from multiple scattering are affected by the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Čapeta , J. Radić , A. Szameit , M. Segev , H. Buljan

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

Non-Hermitian lattices with non-reciprocal couplings under open boundary conditions are known to possess linear modes exponentially localized on one edge of the chain. This phenomenon, dubbed non-Hermitian skin effect, induces all input…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-25 Bertin Many Manda , Ricardo Carretero-González , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Vassos Achilleos

The non-Hermitian edge burst is a phenomenon observed in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics, characterized by a significant accumulation of loss at the boundaries of a system. We present an example of the edge burst effect in a lossy lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 G. Sen , C. Yuce

It has recently been shown that the non-Hermitian skin effect can be suppressed by magnetic fields. In this work, using a two-dimensional tight-binding lattice, we demonstrate that a pseudomagnetic field can also lead to the suppression of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Hau Tian Teo , Subhaskar Mandal , Yang Long , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang