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We report on a time scaling technique to enhance the performances of quantum protocols in non-Hermitian systems. The considered time scaling involves no extra-couplings and yields a significant enhancement of the quantum fidelity for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 F. Impens , F. M. D'Angelis , F. A. Pinheiro , D. Guéry-Odelin

It is shown how to construct a time-independent Hamiltonian having only one degree of freedom from which an arbitrary linear constant-coefficient evolution equation of any order can be derived.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-18 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda , Nima Hassanpour , Hugh F. Jones

Given an initial quantum state |psi_I> and a final quantum state |psi_F> in a Hilbert space, there exist Hamiltonians H under which |psi_I> evolves into |psi_F>. Consider the following quantum brachistochrone problem: Subject to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carl M. Bender , Dorje C. Brody , Hugh F. Jones , Bernhard K. Meister

We study a class of time-dependent (TD) non-Hermitian Hamiltonians $H(t)$ that can be transformed into a time-independent pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian $\mathcal{H}_{0}^{PH}$ using a suitable TD unitary transformation $F(t)$. The latter can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 F. Kecita , B. Khantoul , A. Bounames

We show that the consequences of an introduction of a manifest time-dependence in a pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian H=H(t) are by far less drastic than suggested by A. Mostafazadeh in Phys. Lett. B 650 (2007) 208 (arXiv:0706.1872v2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 Miloslav Znojil

While Hermiticity of a time-independent Hamiltonian leads to unitary time evolution, in and of itself, the requirement of Hermiticity is only sufficient for unitary time evolution. In this paper we provide conditions that are both necessary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 Philip D. Mannheim

In the context of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, many systems are known to possess a pseudo PT symmetry , i.e. the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian H is related to its adjoint H^{{\dag}} via the relation, H^{{\dag}}=PTHPT . We propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Mustapha Maamache

We examine the pertinent geometric characteristics of entanglement that arise from stationary Hamiltonian evolutions transitioning from separable to maximally entangled two-qubit quantum states. From a geometric perspective, each evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Carlo Cafaro , James Schneeloch

We investigated the quantum speed limit time of a qubit system with non-Hermitian detuning. Our results show that, with respect to two distinguishable states of the non-Hermitian system, the evolutionary time does not have a nonzero lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Yan-Yi Wang , Mao-Fa Fang

We provide time-evolution operators, gauge transformations and a perturbative treatment for non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems, which are explicitly time-dependent. We determine various new equivalence pairs for Hermitian and non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria , Andreas Fring

We present a coherent and consistent framework for explicit time-dependence in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. The area of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics has been growing rapidly over the past twenty years. This has been driven by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Thomas Frith

We consider a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian in order to effectively describe a two-level system coupled to a generic dissipative environment. The total Hamiltonian of the model is obtained by adding a general anti-Hermitian part, depending on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Alessandro Sergi , Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

Recently, the notion of a quantum acceleration limit has been proposed for any unitary time evolution of quantum systems governed by arbitrary nonstationary Hamiltonians. This limit articulates that the rate of change over time of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Carlo Cafaro , Walid Redjem , Paul M. Alsing , Newshaw Bahreyni , Christian Corda

The Hamiltonian H specifies the energy levels and time evolution of a quantum theory. A standard axiom of quantum mechanics requires that H be Hermitian because Hermiticity guarantees that the energy spectrum is real and that time evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Carl M. Bender

Recently Bender, Brody, Jones and Meister found that in the quantum brachistochrone problem the passage time needed for the evolution of certain initial states into specified final states can be made arbitrarily small, when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paulo E. G. Assis , Andreas Fring

A non-Hermitian operator may serve as the Hamiltonian for a unitary quantum system, if we can modify the Hilbert space of state vectors of the system so that it turns into a Hermitian operator. If this operator is time-dependent, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Ali Mostafazadeh

We provide a new perspective on non-Hermitian evolution in quantum mechanics by emphasizing the same method as in the Hermitian quantum evolution. We first give a precise description of the non unitary evolution, and collecting the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Mustapha Maamache

An action having an acceleration term in addition to the usual velocity term is analyzed. The quantum mechanical system is directly defined for Euclidean time using the path integral. The Euclidean Hamiltonian is shown to yield the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Belal E. Baaquie

The quantum measurement axiom dictates that physical observables and in particular the Hamiltonian must be diagonalizable and have a real spectrum. For a time-independent Hamiltonian (with a discrete spectrum) these conditions ensure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

Learning about a Hamiltonian $H$ from its time evolution $e^{-iHt}$ is a fundamental task in quantum science. A flurry of recent work has developed powerful new algorithms with provable guarantees for this task, for a variety of natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Ziyun Chen , Jerry Li , Joseph Slote