Abstract

We analyze impacts of crystalline symmetry on the non-Hermitian skin effects. Focusing on mirror symmetry, we propose a novel type of skin effects, a mirror skin effect, which results in significant dependence of energy spectrum on the boundary condition only for the mirror invariant line in the two-dimensional Brillouin zone. This effect arises from the topological properties characterized by a mirror winding number. We further reveal that the mirror skin effect can be observed for an electric circuit composed of negative impedance converters with current inversion where switching the boundary condition significantly changes the admittance eigenvalues only along the mirror invariant lines. Furthermore, we demonstrate that extensive localization of the eigenstates for each mirror sector result in an anomalous voltage response.

Highlights

  • The topological properties [1,2,3] of systems have become a central issue in condensed matter systems because of their remarkable ubiquity

  • We propose another type of skin effect, a mirror skin effect, which results in a significant dependence of the energy spectrum on the boundary condition only for the mirror invariant line in the two-dimensional Brillouin zone

  • Our analysis discovers another type of skin effect, a mirror skin effect, which results in a significant dependence of the energy spectrum on the boundary condition only along mirror invariant lines in the twodimensional Brillouin zone

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Summary

Mirror skin effect and its electric circuit simulation

We analyze the impacts of crystalline symmetry on non-Hermitian skin effects. We propose another type of skin effect, a mirror skin effect, which results in a significant dependence of the energy spectrum on the boundary condition only for the mirror invariant line in the two-dimensional Brillouin zone. This effect arises from the topological properties characterized by a mirror winding number. We further reveal that the mirror skin effect can be observed for an electric circuit composed of negative impedance converters with a current inversion where switching the boundary condition significantly changes the admittance eigenvalues only along the mirror invariant lines. We demonstrate that extensive localization of the eigenstates for each mirror sector results in an anomalous voltage response

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Published by the American Physical Society

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