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Non-Hermitian physics is reshaping our understanding of quantum systems by revealing states and phenomena without Hermitian counterparts. While non-Hermiticity is typically associated with gain-loss processes in open systems, we uncover a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci

While non-reciprocal couplings are ubiquitous in classical systems, their impact on quantum many-body criticality and entanglement remains largely unexplored. Using exact numerical simulations, we study an interacting fermionic chain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Rafael D. Soares , Matteo Brunelli , Marco Schirò

We investigate the two-port scattering process in non-Hermitian dimer models via quantum measurements using external leads. We focus on two exemplary dimer models that preserve parity-time symmetry via spatial gain-loss balance and exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jung-Wan Ryu , Henning Schomerus , Hee Chul Park

We discuss the emulation of non-Hermitian dynamics during a given time window by a low-dimensional quantum system coupled to a finite set of equidistant discrete states acting as an effective continuum. We first emulate the decay of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Eloi Flament , François Impens , David Guéry-Odelin

We study the dynamics of the statistics of the energy transferred across a point along a quantum chain which is prepared in the inhomogeneous initial state obtained by joining two identical semi-infinite parts thermalized at two different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Gabriele Perfetto , Andrea Gambassi

We investigated the behavior of non-Hermitian bosonic gases with Hubbard interactions in the one-dimensional zigzag optical lattices through the calculation of dynamic response functions. Our findings showed the existence of a non-Hermitian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-22 Chengxi Li , Yubiao Wu , Wu-Ming Liu

Describing open quantum systems in terms of effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians gives rise to non-unitary time evolution. In this paper, we study the impact of non-unitary dynamics on the emergent hydrodynamics in quantum systems with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-10 Dylan E. Mahoney , Jonas Richter

Simulating the irreversible quantum dynamics of exciton and electron transfer problems poses a nontrivial challenge. Because the irreversibility of the system dynamics is a result of quantum thermal activation and dissipation caused by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Seiji Ueno , Yoshitaka Tanimura

In closed quantum systems, a dynamical phase transition is identified by nonanalytic behaviors of the return probability as a function of time. In this work, we study the nonunitary dynamics following quenches across exceptional points in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Longwen Zhou , Qing-hai Wang , Hailong Wang , Jiangbin Gong

This study investigates the intricate relationship between dissipative processes of open quantum systems and the non-Hermitian quantum field theory of relativistic fermionic systems. By examining the influence of dissipative effects on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Y. M. P. Gomes

Energy transfer within photosynthetic systems can display quantum effects such as delocalized excitonic transport. Recently, direct evidence of long-lived coherence has been experimentally demonstrated for the dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-06 Masoud Mohseni , Patrick Rebentrost , Seth Lloyd , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

A model is proposed to study the hybrid exciton in a quantum dot-dendrimer systems. The semiconductor organic hybrid exciton is studied using a "real space" Green's function method and a diagrammatic technique. The energy of the hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Nguyen Que Huong , Joseph L. Birman

Recent ultrafast optical experiments show that excitons in large biological light-harvesting complexes are coupled to molecular vibration modes. These high-frequency vibrations will not only affect the optical response, but also drive the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Arend G. Dijkstra , Chen Wang , Jianshu Cao , Graham R. Fleming

Achieving and controlling non-reciprocity in engineered photonic structures is of fundamental interest in science and engineering. Here, we introduce a tunable, non-Hermitian, nonlinear microwave dimer designed to precisely implement…

In this work, we consider a two level $P\sigma_{z}$ pseudo-Hermitian system in contact with a thermal bath to study various thermodynamic properties. The system is realized in terms of infinitely many invariant subspaces. We find explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Gargi Das , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

Exceptional points facilitate peculiar dynamics in non-Hermitian systems. Yet, in photonics, they have mainly been studied in the classical realm. In this work, we reveal the behavior of two-photon quantum states in non-Hermitian systems…

The present review is devoted to our recent studies on the excitonic motion in photosynthetic systems. In photosynthesis, the light photon is absorbed to create an exciton in the antenna complex of the photosynthetic pigments. This exciton…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-02 Navinder Singh

We study time-dependent heat transport in systems composed of a resonant level periodically forced with an external power source and coupled to a fermionic continuum. This simple model contains the basic ingredients to understand time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Maria Florencia Ludovico , Jong Soo Lim , Michael Moskalets , Liliana Arrachea , David Sanchez

We study the quantum dynamics of conversion of composite bosons into fermionic fragment species with increasing densities of bound fermion pairs using the open quantum system approach. The Hilbert space of $N$-state-function is decomposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 A. Thilagam

We establish a unified framework for dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in non-Hermitian systems that encompasses both biorthogonal and self-norm non-biorthogonal formulations for pure and mixed states under quantum quench…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yongxu Fu , Gao Xianlong