Second-order Skin Effect in a Brick-Wall Lattice
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24843v1
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:18:36 GMT
- Title: Second-order Skin Effect in a Brick-Wall Lattice
- Abstract summary: We show a hybrid skin-topological effect arising from the interplay between first-order band topology and non-reciprocal hopping.<n>The eigenvalues associated with corner skin modes do not exhibit non-trivial windings in the complex energy plane.<n>The remaining modes accumulate at the pair of opposite corners.
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- Abstract: Non-Hermitian skin effect, which is a unique feature of non-Hermitian systems, exhibits the formation of an extensive number of boundary modes under open boundary conditions. However, its manifestation in higher dimensions remains elusive. In our work, we demonstrate a hybrid skin-topological effect arising from the interplay between first-order band topology and non-reciprocal hopping in an engineered two-dimensional brick-wall geometry. The non-Hermitian brick-wall lattice under open boundary conditions in both directions exhibits several unconventional spectral features. Notably, the eigenvalues associated with the corner skin modes do not exhibit non-trivial windings in the complex energy plane; instead, they exhibit dynamically stable exceptional point-like features that do not originate from eigenvector coalescence. In contrast, the remaining modes accumulate at the opposite pair. Of all the corner skin modes, only the two that originate from the topological corner states of the Hermitian brick-wall lattice remain localized at individual corners, while the rest accumulate at the pair of opposite corners. This spatial distribution contrasts sharply with the second-order skin effect, where corner skin modes are more uniformly distributed. Finally, for the non-Hermitian Brick-wall lattice, we design and implement the corresponding topolectrical circuit (circuit for a square lattice is included for comparison) to directly visualize the hybrid skin-topological modes.
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