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Acoustic non-Hermitian skin effect from twisted winding topology
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The recently discovered non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) manifests the breakdown of current classification of topological phases in energy-nonconservative systems, and necessitates the introduction of non-Hermitian band topology. So far, all NHSE observations are based on one type of non-Hermitian band topology, in which the complex energy spectrum winds along a closed loop. As recently characterized along a synthetic dimension on a photonic platform, non-Hermitian band topology can exhibit almost arbitrary windings in momentum space, but their actual phenomena in real physical systems remain unclear. Here, we report the experimental realization of NHSE in a one-dimensional (1D) non-reciprocal acoustic crystal. With direct acoustic measurement, we demonstrate that a twisted winding, whose topology consists of two oppositely oriented loops in contact rather than a single loop, will dramatically change the NHSE, following previous predictions of unique features such as the bipolar localization and the Bloch point for a Bloch-wave-like extended state. This work reveals previously unnoticed features of NHSE, and provides the observation of physical phenomena originating from complex non-Hermitian winding topology.
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- Authors
- Zhang, L., Yang, Y., Ge, Y., Guan, Y.-J., Chen, Q., Yan, Q., Chen, F., Xi, R., Li, Y., Jia, D., Yuan, S.-Q., Sun, H.-X., Chen, H., & Zhang, B.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2021-11-02
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 6297-6297
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3210867558
- Cited by
- 363
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 22.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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