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A nonzero non-Hermitian winding number indicates that a gapped system is in a nontrivial topological class due to the non-Hermiticity of its Hamiltonian. While for Hermitian systems nontrivial topological quantum numbers are reflected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein , Bernd Rosenow

Transfer and decay dynamics of an exciton coupled to a polarization vibration in a dimer is investigated in a mixed quantum-classical picture with the exciton decay incorporated by a sink site. Using a separation of time scales, it is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Holger Schanz , Ivan Barvik , Bernd Esser

Two-body dissipation due to chemical reactions occurs in both ultracold fermionic and bosonic molecular gases. Despite recent advances in achieving quantum degeneracy, the loss dynamics are typically described phenomenologically using rate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-10 Xin-Yuan Gao , Yangqian Yan

In this work, we present a numerical framework for modeling single photon emission from a two level system in open and dissipative systems beyond the Markovian approximation. The method can be readily integrated into standard computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Hyunwoo Choi , Jisang Seo , Weng C. Chew , Dong-Yeop Na

Quantum computing's potential for exponential speedup is fundamentally limited by decoherence, a phenomenon arising from environmental interactions. Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, particularly $PT$-symmetric systems, offers a novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Duttatreya , Ipsika Mohanty , Sanjib Dey

It is proven that in the lossless case the electrodynamics of a generic inhomogeneous possibly bianisotropic and nonreciprocal system may be described by an augmented state-vector whose time evolution is determined by a Hermitian operator.…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-10 Mario G. Silveirinha

Non-radiative optical energy transfer from a GaAs quantum well to a thin overlayer of an infrared organic semiconductor dye is unambiguously demonstrated. The dynamics of exciton transfer are studied in the time-domain using pump-probe…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Chanyawadee , P. G. Lagoudakis , R. T. Harley , D. G. Lidzey , M. Henini

A lossy quantum system harboring the non-Hermitian skin effect can in certain conditions exhibit anomalously high loss at the boundaries of the system compared to the bulk, a phenomenon termed the non-Hermitian edge burst. We uncover…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Jin Ming Koh , Wen-Tan Xue , Tommy Tai , Dax Enshan Koh , Ching Hua Lee

We explore the connections between dissipative quantum phase transitions and non-Hermitian random matrix theory. For this, we work in the framework of the dissipative Dicke model which is archetypal of symmetry-breaking phase transitions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Mahaveer Prasad , Hari Kumar Yadalam , Camille Aron , Manas Kulkarni

We investigate the many-particle and mean-field correspondence for a non-Hermitian N-particle Bose-Hubbard dimer where a complex onsite energy describes an effective decay from one of the modes. Recently a generalized mean-field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Eva-Maria Graefe , Hans Jürgen Korsch , Astrid Elisa Niederle

We investigate non-equilibrium behavior of driven dissipative systems, using the model presented in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 240601 (2004)]. We solve the non-Boltzmann steady state energy distribution and the temporal evolution to it, and find…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yair Shokef , Dov Levine

Photonic structures have an inherent advantage to realize PT-phase transition through modulating the refractive index or gain-loss. However, quantum PT properties of these photonic systems have not been comprehensively studied yet. Here, in…

Over the past decade classical optical systems with gain or loss, modelled by non-Hermitian parity-time symmetric Hamiltonians, have been deeply investigated. Yet, their applicability to the quantum domain with number-resolved photonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Ross Wakefield , Anthony Laing , Yogesh N. Joglekar

We study a family of excitonic quantum phase transitions describing the evolution of a bilayer metallic state to an inter-layer coherent state where excitons condense. We argue that such transitions can be continuous and exhibit a non-Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-28 Zhengyan Darius Shi , Hart Goldman , Zhihuan Dong , T. Senthil

We consider a discrete-time non-Hamiltonian dynamics of a quantum system consisting of a finite sample locally coupled to several bi-infinite reservoirs of fermions with a translation symmetry. In this setup, we compute the asymptotic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Simon Andréys , Alain Joye , Renaud Raquépas

Resonant energy transfer mechanisms have been observed in the sensitized luminescence of solids, in quantum dots and in molecular nanostructures, and they also play a central role in light harvesting processes in photosynthetic organisms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brendon Lovett , John H. Reina , Ahsan Nazir , Beeneet Kothari , Andrew Briggs

Local constraint in the lattice gauge theory provides an exotic mechanism that facilitates the disorder-free localization. However, the understanding of nonequilibrium dynamics in the non-Hermitian lattice gauge model remains limited. Here,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-22 Jun-Qing Cheng , Shuai Yin , Dao-Xin Yao

Cell proliferation and diffusion can be modeled through reaction-diffusion systems describing the space-time evolution of a density variable. In this work, we present non-linear transformations of heat equation solutions to model cellular…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-02 Preet Mishra , Shyam Kumar , Sapna Ratan Shah , R. K. Brojen Singh

A remarkable amount of theoretical research has been carried out to elucidate the physical origins of the recently observed long-lived quantum coherence in the electronic energy transfer process in biological photosynthetic systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Sangwoo Shim , Patrick Rebentrost , Stéphanie Valleau , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

In this letter, we introduce a novel method for investigating dissipation (gain) and thermalization in an open quantum system. In this method, the quantum system is coupled linearly with a copy of itself or with another system described by…