Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Critical non-Hermitian skin effect

  • Linhu Li,
  • Ching Hua Lee,
  • Sen Mu,
  • Jiangbin Gong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18917-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In non-Hermitian systems, fundamental concepts like bandgaps and locality cannot be applied as in Hermitian systems. Here, the authors introduce a class of non-Hermitian critical scenarios where the eigenstates and energies jump discontinuously across a critical point, with anomalous scaling properties