Multifractal Analysis of the Non-Hermitian Skin Effect: From Many-Body to Tree Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26185v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:56:05 GMT
• Title: Multifractal Analysis of the Non-Hermitian Skin Effect: From Many-Body to Tree Models
• Abstract summary: The non-Hermitian skin effect is an anomalous localization phenomenon induced by nonreciprocal dissipation.<n>This review provides a unified perspective on multifractal structures in the non-Hermitian skin effect across single-particle, many-body, and tree models.
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• Abstract: The non-Hermitian skin effect is an anomalous localization phenomenon induced by nonreciprocal dissipation and has attracted considerable attention in recent years both theoretically and experimentally. In this article, we review the multifractal aspects of the non-Hermitian skin effect. In particular, we discuss how the many-body skin effect exhibits multifractality in many-body Hilbert space, unlike the trivial Hilbert-space occupation of the single-particle skin effect on crystalline lattices. We further highlight that the many-body skin effect can coexist with random-matrix spectral statistics, in contrast to the multifractality associated with many-body localization, which typically accompanies the absence of ergodicity. We also introduce a solvable model on a Cayley tree as an effective description of the many-body Hilbert space, in which the multifractal dimensions can be obtained analytically. This review provides a unified perspective on multifractal structures in the non-Hermitian skin effect across single-particle, many-body, and tree models, and clarifies their distinctive relation to ergodicity in open quantum systems.

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