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arxiv 2508.20027 v1 pith:PWBZNHOH submitted 2025-08-27 cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.str-elphysics.atom-phquant-ph

Excitonic skin effect

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keywords effectskinexcitonicimaginaryinteractionsnon-hermitianpairsparticle-hole
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We show that strong interactions combined with band-dependent imaginary vector potentials give rise to boundary localization of particle-hole pairs, which we term the excitonic skin effect. In a bilayer system with layer-specific gain/loss and an in-plane magnetic field, excitons experience a net imaginary vector potential, resulting in directional amplification of particle-hole pairs. Including nearest-neighbor interactions leads to a non-Hermitian bosonic Kitaev model, where the pairing effects grow exponentially with the size of the system, revealing a unique form of critical skin effect in interacting systems. Our framework applies to both atomic and electronic platforms and is directly testable in current experiments. These results also provide a route to explore non-Hermitian analogs of tensor gauge fields.

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