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Eternal life of entropy in non-Hermitian quantum systems

Quantum Physics 2019-08-01 v1

Abstract

We find a new effect for the behaviour of Von Neumann entropy. For this we derive the framework for describing Von Neumann entropy in non-Hermitian quantum systems and then apply it to a simple interacting PT symmetric bosonic system. We show that our model is well defined even in the PT broken regime with the introduction of a time-dependent metric and that it displays three distinct behaviours relating to the PT symmetry of the original time-independent Hamiltonian. When the symmetry is unbroken, the entropy undergoes rapid decay to zero (so-called "sudden death") with a subsequent revival. At the exceptional point it decays asymptotically to zero and when the symmetry is spontaneously broken it decays asymptotically to a finite constant value ("eternal life").

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@article{arxiv.1905.07348,
  title  = {Eternal life of entropy in non-Hermitian quantum systems},
  author = {Andreas Fring and Thomas Frith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07348},
  year   = {2019}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures