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We study the one-dimensional nonreciprocal lattices with real nearest neighboring hopping and find that the energy spectra under open boundary conditions can be entirely real or imaginary. We further investigate the spectral properties and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Qi-Bo Zeng , Rong Lü

The control of wave propagation, particularly the quest for unidirectional transport, plays an important role in photonics and metamaterial science. While nonreciprocity is known to enable unidirectional amplification and stabilize complex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-10 Wen-Rong Sun , Jesús Cuevas Maraver

Nonreciprocity means that the transmission of a signal depends on its direction of propagation. Despite vastly different platforms and underlying working principles, the realisations of nonreciprocal transport in linear, time-independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Clara C. Wanjura , Jesse J. Slim , Javier del Pino , Matteo Brunelli , Ewold Verhagen , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Magnetic interactions have long served as the most robust and widely used approach for realizing nonreciprocity, with an externally applied magnetic field breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and chiral photon-magnon interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jiguang Yao , Ying Yang , Chenyang Lu , Lihua Zhong , Xiaolong Fan , Desheng Xue , C. -M. Hu

Nonequilibrium phase transition plays a pivotal role in a broad physical context from condensed matter to cosmology. Tracking the formation of non-equilibrium phases in condensed matter is challenging and requires a resolution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Faran Zhou , Joseph Williams , Christos D. Malliakas , Mercouri G. Kanatzidis , Alexander F. Kemper , Chong-Yu Ruan

Non-reciprocal interactions are prevalent in various complex systems leading to phenomena that cannot be described by traditional equilibrium statistical physics. Although non-reciprocally interacting systems composed of two populations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Cheyne Weis , Ryo Hanai

The mean compositions of individual components can be tuned to control phase behavior in number-conserving passive mixtures. In this work, we investigate the role of variable average density in a system of infinitely many non-reciprocally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-09 Laya Parkavousi , Suropriya Saha

Nonreciprocity originating from classical interactions among nonlinear scatterers has been attracting increasing attention in the quantum community, offering a promising tool to control excitation transfer for quantum information processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Nikita Nefedkin , Michele Cotrufo , Andrea Alù

We study a non-reciprocal version of Model B, as the continuum theory for non-reciprocal particle mixtures. In contrast to non-reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard models, it is important in this context to consider the dependence of mobility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-06 Bibhut Sahoo , Rituparno Mandal , Peter Sollich

We present a theoretical study of the interaction between an atom characterized by a degenerate ground state and a reciprocal environment, such as a semiconductor nanoparticle, without the presence of external bias. Our analysis reveals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Mário G. Silveirinha , Hugo Terças , Mauro Antezza

Many active matter systems consist of different particle types that interact via nonreciprocal couplings. Such nonreciprocal couplings can lead to the spontaneous emergence of time-dependent states that break parity-time symmetry. On the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-29 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Reciprocity is a fundamental symmetry present in many natural phenomena and engineered systems. Distinct situations where this symmetry is broken are typically grouped under the umbrella term "nonreciprocity", colloquially defined by: the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-12 Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

Non-reciprocal systems have been shown to sustain time-dependent patterns, most prominently travelling waves. The transition into these time-dependent states generally breaks time-translational invariance, representing a clear deviation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 Emir Sezik , Gunnar Pruessner

Non-reciprocal systems can be thought of as disobeying Newtons third law - an action does not cause an equal and opposite reaction. In recent years there has been a dramatic rise in interest towards such systems. On a fundamental level,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-06 Sergei Shmakov , Glasha Osipycheva , Peter B. Littlewood

Nonhermitian systems provide new avenues to create topological defect states. An unresolved general question is how much the formation of these states depends on asymmetric backscattering, be it nonreciprocal as in the nonhermitian skin…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-04 Martí Bosch , Simon Malzard , Martina Hentschel , Henning Schomerus

The fundamental concept underlying topological phenomena posits the geometric phase associated with eigenstates. In contrast to this prevailing notion, theoretical studies on time-varying Hamiltonians allow for a new type of topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Pengfei Lu , Yang Liu , Qifeng Lao , Teng Liu , Xinxin Rao , Ji Bian , Hao Wu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

Materials and devices subject to spatiotemporal modulation of their effective properties have a demonstrated ability to support nonreciprocal transmission of waves. Most notably, spatiotemporally modulated systems can restrict wave…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

Topological theory predicts the necessary conditions for robust dimensional reduction in a host of quantum and classical systems. Models have recently been proposed for stochastic systems which describe many biological and chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-14 Aleksandra Nelson , Evelyn Tang

The reversible Frank model is capable of amplifying the initial small statistical deviations from the idealized racemic composition. This temporary amplification can be interpreted as a chiral excursion in a dynamic phase space. It is well…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Celia Blanco , Michael Stich , David Hochberg

Nonreciprocity is an important scientific concept related to the broken symmetry of light propagation through a system in forward and reverse directions. This effect lies in the origin of various applications including signal processing,…