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Observation of impurity-induced scale-free localization in a disordered non-Hermitian electrical circuit |
Hao Wang, Jin Liu, Tao Liu( ), Wenbo Ju( ) |
| School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China |
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Abstract One of unique features of non-Hermitian systems is the extreme sensitive to their boundary conditions, e.g., the emergence of non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under the open boundary conditions, where most of bulk states become localized at the boundaries. In the presence of impurities, the scale-free localization can appear, which is qualitatively distinct from the NHSE. Here, we experimentally design a disordered non-Hermitian electrical circuits in the presence of a single non-Hermitian impurity and the nonreciprocal hopping. We observe the anomalous scale-free accumulation of eigenstates, opposite to the bulk hopping direction. The experimental results open the door to further explore the anomalous skin effects in non-Hermitian electrical circuits.
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non-Hermitian
scale-free localization
electrical circuit
non-Hermitian skin effect
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Corresponding Author(s):
Tao Liu,Wenbo Ju
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Just Accepted Date: 02 August 2024
Issue Date: 20 September 2024
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