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

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.