{"paper_id":"2ba9bc02-c5fc-4210-8529-cf7eb6cb5d2f","body_text":"Many-body critical non-Hermitian skin effect | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Many-body critical non-Hermitian skin effect Linhu Li, Yi Qin, Yee Sin Ang, Ching Hua Lee This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6991289/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Published Journal Publication published 11 Dec, 2025 Read the published version in Communications Physics → Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Criticality in non-Hermitian systems unveils unique phase transitions and scaling behaviors beyond Hermitian paradigms, offering new insights into the interplay between gain/loss, non-reciprocity, and complex energy spectra. In this paper, we uncover a new class of many-body critical non-Hermitian skin effect (CSE) originating from the interplay between multiple non-Hermitian pumping channels and Hubbard interactions. In particular, criticality in the real-to-complex transitions can selectively emerge within the subspace of bound states or scattering states, as well as their interacting admixtures. These mechanisms possess no single-particle analog and can be diagnosed through a specially defined correlation function. As more particles are involved, higher-order CSEs naturally arise, with greatly enhanced effective coupling strengths and hence greater experimental accessibility. Our results reveal an enriched landscape of non-Hermitian critical phenomena in interacting many-body systems, and pave the way for investigating unconventional non-Hermitian criticality in the context of various interaction-induced particle clustering configurations. Physical sciences/Physics/Condensed-matter physics/Phase transitions and critical phenomena Physical sciences/Physics/Quantum physics/Quantum simulation Full Text Additional Declarations Yes there is potential Competing Interest. C.H. Lee is an Editorial Board Member for Communications Physics. All other authors declare no competing interests. Supplementary Files CNSENCSI.pdf Supplementary information Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 11 Dec, 2025 Read the published version in Communications Physics → Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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