Tunable non-Hermitian skin effect and topological phases in ladders with staggered nonreciprocal inter-leg hopping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11454v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:06:02 GMT
• Title: Tunable non-Hermitian skin effect and topological phases in ladders with staggered nonreciprocal inter-leg hopping
• Abstract summary: We investigate the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and topological phases in a ladder model with staggered nonreciprocal inter-leg hopping.<n>Our results establish staggered nonreciprocal inter-leg hopping as an effective mechanism for engineering both the non-Hermitian skin effect and topological phases in ladder systems.
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• Abstract: We investigate the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and topological phases in a ladder model with staggered nonreciprocal inter-leg hopping, consisting of an Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain coupled to a normal tight-binding chain. By tuning the system parameters, we show that the direction of the NHSE under open boundary conditions can be reversed and can even become energy dependent. The NHSE is further characterized by the spectral winding number under periodic boundary conditions. We further demonstrate that the inter-leg coupling significantly enlarges the topologically nontrivial parameter regime. Remarkably, the zero-energy topological edge modes reside on different legs of the ladder and are characterized by real-space winding numbers $W=\pm1$. Furthermore, increasing the nonreciprocity of the inter-leg hopping modifies the topological phase boundaries and eventually drives the system into a topologically trivial phase. Our results establish staggered nonreciprocal inter-leg hopping as an effective mechanism for engineering both the non-Hermitian skin effect and topological phases in ladder systems.

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