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Universal non-Hermitian skin effect in two and higher dimensions

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30161-6

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  1. Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2016YFA0302400]
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB33000000]
  3. National Science Foundation of China [NSFC-12104450]
  4. China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents [BX2021300]

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The authors introduce the skin effect discovered in a one-dimensional experiment and establish its universality in two and higher dimensional non-Hermitian systems. They also propose two new types of skin effect and show that systems with exceptional points exhibit the skin effect.
Skin effect, experimentally discovered in one dimension, describes the physical phenomenon that on an open chain, an extensive number of eigenstates of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian are localized at the end(s) of the chain. Here in two and higher dimensions, we establish a theorem that the skin effect exists, if and only if periodic-boundary spectrum of the Hamiltonian covers a finite area on the complex plane. This theorem establishes the universality of the effect, because the above condition is satisfied in almost every generic non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, and, unlike in one dimension, is compatible with all point-group symmetries. We propose two new types of skin effect in two and higher dimensions: the corner-skin effect where all eigenstates are localized at corners of the system, and the geometry-dependent-skin effect where skin modes disappear for systems of a particular shape, but appear on generic polygons. An immediate corollary of our theorem is that any non-Hermitian system having exceptional points (lines) in two (three) dimensions exhibits skin effect, making this phenomenon accessible to experiments in photonic crystals, Weyl semimetals, and Kondo insulators. The non-Hermitian skin effect has been discovered in a one dimensional open chain. Here, the authors establish the universality of this effect in two and higher dimensional non-Hermitian systems and propose two new types of skin effect.

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