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Odd elasticity encompasses active elastic systems whose stress-strain relationship is not compatible with a potential energy. As the requirement of energy conservation is lifted from linear elasticity, new anti-symmetric (odd) components…

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Chiral active materials are abundant in nature, including the cytoskeleton with attached motor proteins, rotary clusters of bacteria flagella, and self-spinning starfish embryos. These materials break both time reversal and mirror-image…

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Recently, much attention has been paid to uncovering the influence of dissipation on a quantum system, particularly on how the non-Hermitian (NH) terms modify the band topology of topological materials and reshape the profile of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-14 Fei Yang , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-peng Kou

Wave turbulence describes the long-time statistical behavior of out-of-equilibrium systems composed of weakly interacting waves. Non-Hermitian media ranging from open quantum systems to active materials can sustain wave propagation in…

Solids built out of active components can exhibit non-reciprocal elastic coefficients that give rise to non-Hermitian wave phenomena. Here, we investigate non-Hermitian effects present at the boundary of two-dimensional active elastic media…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-16 Colin Scheibner , William T. M. Irvine , Vincenzo Vitelli

We consider free surface dynamics of a two-dimensional incompressible fluid with odd viscosity. The odd viscosity is a peculiar part of the viscosity tensor which does not result in dissipation and is allowed when parity symmetry is broken.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alexander G. Abanov , Tankut Can , Sriram Ganeshan

Capillary waves are a classical free-surface phenomenon in fluid mechanics, yet their behavior in chiral fluids remains largely unexplored. We show that odd viscosity breaks the reciprocity of capillary waves. Using linear theory together…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Holly du Plessis , Pedro Cosme , Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

Chiral active matter is predicted to exhibit odd elasticity, with nontraditional elastic response arising from a combination of chirality, being out of equilibrium, and the presence of nonreciprocal interactions. One of the resulting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Sang Hyun Choi , Zhi-Feng Huang , Nigel Goldenfeld

The ability to control the directionality of surface waves by manipulating its polarization has been of great significance for applications in spintronics and polarization-based optics. Surface waves with evanescent tails are found to…

The breaking of detailed balance in fluids through Coriolis forces or odd-viscous stresses has profound effects on the dynamics of surface waves. Here we explore both weakly and strongly non-linear waves in a three-dimensional fluid with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-04 Alex Doak , Guido Baardink , Paul A Milewski , Anton Souslov

We investigate the properties of small-amplitude inertial waves propagating in a differentially rotating incompressible fluid contained in a spherical shell. For cylindrical and shellular rotation profiles and in the inviscid limit,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Baruteau , M. Rieutord

The interplay between non-Hermitian effects and topological insulators has become a frontier of research in non-Hermitian physics. However, the existence of a non-Hermitian skin effect for topological-protected edge states remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Xinran Ma , Kui Cao , Xiaoran Wang , Zheng Wei , Supeng Kou

We present a phenomenological approach to dispersion in nonlinear elasticity. A simple, thermomechanically sound, constitutive model is proposed to describe the (non-dissipative) properties of a hyperelastic dispersive solid, without…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-12 Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

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

Non-Hermitian physics has unveiled a realm of exotic phenomena absent in Hermitian systems, with the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) showcasing boundary-localized eigenstates driven by non-reciprocal interactions. Here, we introduce a new…

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Electromagnetic metasurfaces enable the advanced control of surface-wave propagation by spatially tailoring the local surface reactance. Interestingly, tailoring the surface resistance distribution in space provides new, largely unexplored…

In this note, we study the existence of traveling waves of a surface model in a non-newtonian fluid with odd viscosity. The proof relies on nonlinear bifurcation techniques.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Diego Alonso-Orán , Claudia García , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

Parity-odd transport is a central signature of chiral fluids, yet analytical predictions are sparse. Here, we introduce a minimal two-dimensional hard-disk gas in which chirality arises solely from a collision-induced transverse impulse.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Raphael Maire , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has emerged as a distinctive phenomenon enabling non-Bloch wave manipulation. However, it has been limited to discrete lattices requiring fine-tuned onsite gain/loss or asymmetric couplings. Here, moving…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yuan Tian , Nankun Gao , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

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
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