Observation of non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulator in quantum dynamics

Quan Lin; Tianyu Li; Lei Xiao; Kunkun Wang; Wei Yi; Peng Xue

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30938-9

Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Observation of non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulator in quantum dynamics

Quan Lin,
Tianyu Li,
Lei Xiao,
Kunkun Wang,
Wei Yi,
Peng Xue

Affiliations

Quan Lin: Beijing Computational Science Research Center
Tianyu Li: CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China
Lei Xiao: Beijing Computational Science Research Center
Kunkun Wang: Beijing Computational Science Research Center
Wei Yi: CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China
Peng Xue: Beijing Computational Science Research Center

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30938-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The authors report an experimental observation of a non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulator using photonic quantum walks, revealing the competition between Anderson localization induced by random disorder and the non-Hermitian skin effect.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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