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A prominent feature of some one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems is that all right-eigenstates of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian are localized in one end of the chain. The topological and trivial phases are distinguished by the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Motohiko Ezawa

We investigate the entanglement dynamics of the non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) chain. The results reveal that by increasing quasiperiodic strength, a phase transition occurs from the area law induced by non-Hermitian skin effect…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-18 Shan-Zhong Li , Xue-Jia Yu , Zhi Li

It is well known that non-Hermitian, non-reciprocal systems may harbor exponentially localized skin modes. However, in this work, we find that, generically, non-Hermiticity gives rise to abrupt and prominent kinks in the semi-classical wave…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-30 Fang Qin , Ruizhe Shen , Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee

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

Although the homotopy-knot theory has been utilized to implement effective topological classification for non-Hermitian systems, the physical implications underlying distinct knot topologies remain ambiguous and are rarely addressed. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Guoying Zhang , Li Wang , Shu Chen

Nascent platforms for programmable quantum simulation offer unprecedented access to new regimes of far-from-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics in (approximately) isolated systems. Here, achieving precise control over quantum many-body…

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

The non-Hermitian skin effect is fundamentally characterized by its sensitivity to boundary conditions, reflected in changes to the energy spectrum and boundary-localized eigenstates. Here, we demonstrate that a spatially inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zheng Wei , Ji-Yao Fan , Kui Cao , Xin-Ran Ma , Cui-Xian Guo , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-Peng Kou

The non-Hermitian skin effect describes the concentration of an extensive number of eigenstates near the boundaries of certain dissipative systems. This phenomenon has raised a huge interest in different areas of physics, including…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

Non-Hermitian skin effect, the localization of an extensive number of eigenstates at the ends of the system, has greatly expanded the frontier of physical laws. It has long been believed that the present of skin modes is equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Gang-Feng Guo , Xi-Xi Bao , Han-Jie Zhu , Xiao-Ming Zhao , Lin Zhuang , Lei Tan , Wu-Ming Liu

Non-Hermitian lattices under semi-infinite boundary conditions sustain an extensive number of exponentially-localized states, dubbed non-Hermitian skin modes. Such states can be predicted from the nontrivial topology of the energy spectrum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

We study an entanglement phase transition in a class of chaotic non-Hermitian spin chains whose spin-spin coupling terms commute with the non-Hermitian contributions. Two representative models are investigated: the transverse-field Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Zhen-Tao Zhang , Feng Mei

The intricate interplay between unitary evolution and projective measurements could induce entanglement phase transitions in the nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-particle systems. In this work, we uncover loss-induced entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Longwen Zhou

We study the dynamical consequences of combining the non-Hermitian skin effect with topological edge states. Focusing on the paradigmatic dissipative Hofstadter model, we find that the time-dependent particle density exhibits both chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Ronika Sarkar , Suraj S. Hegde , Awadhesh Narayan , Tobias Meng

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

We propose a realistic cold-atom quantum setting where nontrivial energy-band topology induces non-reciprocal pumping. This is an intriguing non-Hermitian phenomenon that illustrates how topology, when assisted with atom loss, can act as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee , Jiangbin Gong

Local constraint in the lattice gauge theory provides an exotic mechanism that facilitates the disorder-free localization. However, the understanding of nonequilibrium dynamics in the non-Hermitian lattice gauge model remains limited. Here,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-22 Jun-Qing Cheng , Shuai Yin , Dao-Xin Yao

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) fundamentally invalidates the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC), leading topological diagnostics into a crisis. While the non-Bloch polarization $P_{\beta}$ defined on the generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Xudong Zhang , Zhaoyu Sun , Bin Guo

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

We demonstrate that holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) serves as a powerful diagnostic tool for both static and dynamical critical phenomena in the Einstein-Born-Infeld-Scalar (EBIS) model. While HEE is well-known for capturing static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Yi Li , Ke-tai Wu , Chong-Ye Chen , Chao Niu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Peng Liu