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In this work, we investigate many-body phase transitions in a one-dimensional anisotropic XY model subject to a complex-valued transverse field. Within the biorthogonal framework, we calculate the ground-state correlation functions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Fei Wang , Guoying Liang , Zecheng Zhao , Lin-Yue Luo , Da-Jian Zhang , Bao-Ming Xu

In this manuscript, we study the non-Hermitian spin-1/2 XY model in the presence of the alternating, imaginary and transverse magnetic fields. For the two-site spin system, we solve exactly the energy spectrum and phase diagram, also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-21 Yue Li , Pan-Pan Zhang , Li-Zhen Hu , Yu-Liang Xu , Xiang-Mu Kong

We investigate the dynamics of parity- and time-reversal (PT ) symmetric two-energy-level atoms in the presence of two optical and a radio-frequency (rf) fields. The strength and relative phase of fields can drive the system from unbroken…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-13 Lei Du , Zhihao Xu , Chuanhao Yin , Liping Guo

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a phenomenon of an alteration of a state symmetry without a change in the system symmetry. A transition from a state with unbroken symmetry to a state with broken symmetry leads to a qualitative change in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 A. R. Mukhamedyanov , E. S. Andrianov , A. A. Zyablovsky

We find that a broken PT-symmetry operator when interacts with suitable Hermitian operator, new system becomes completely un-broken PT symmetry. Further on varying the contribution of Hermiticity one can delay or control the broken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Biswanath Rath

The nature of phase transitions involving the questions why and how phase transitions take place has not been sufficiently touched in the literature. In contrast, the current attention to certain extent still focus on the description of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-28 Yun-Tong Yang , Hong-Gang Luo

The broken and unbroken phases of PT and supersymmetry in optical systems are explored for a complex refractive index profile in the form of a Scarf potential, under the framework of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The transition from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Adipta Pal , Subhrajit Modak , Aradhya Shukla , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We perform Monte Carlo simulations of a three-dimensional spin system with a Hamiltonian which contains only four-spin interaction term. This system describes random surfaces with extrinsic curvature - gonihedric action. We study the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Koutsoumbas , G. K. Savvidy

We study phase transition behavior of the Heisenberg model on a distorted triangular lattice with competing interactions. The ground-state phase diagram indicates that underlying symmetry can be changed by tuning parameters. We focus on two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-16 Ryo Tamura , Shu Tanaka , Naoki Kawashima

Unitary evolution in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics with a time-dependent metric is found to yield a new class of adiabatic processes. As an explicit example, a Berry-like phase associated with a PT-symmetric two-level system is derived and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jiangbin Gong , Qing-hai Wang

Over the past decade, parity-time (PT) symmetry and anti-PT (APT) symmetry in various physical systems have been extensively studied, leading to significant experimental and theoretical advancements. However, physical systems that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Ruicong Huang , Wencong Wang , Yuyang Liang , Dongmei Liu , Min Gu

We describe the critical behavior of electric field-driven (dynamic) Mott insulator-to-metal transitions in dissipative Fermi and Bose systems in terms of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians invariant under simultaneous parity (P) and time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-13 Vikram Tripathi , Alexey Galda , Himadri Barman , Valerii M. Vinokur

The quantum phase transition between paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases of the Kondo lattice model with Ising anisotropy in the intersite exchange is studied within the framework of extended dynamical mean-field theory.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-12-03 Matthew T. Glossop , Kevin Ingersent

We investigate PT -symmetry breaking transitions in a dimer comprising two LC oscillators, one with loss and the second with gain. The electric energy of this four-mode model oscillates between the two LC circuits, and between capacitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Tishuo Wang , Jianxiong Fang , Zhongyi Xie , Nenghao Dong , Yogesh N Joglekar , Zixin Wang , Jiaming Li , Le Luo

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

Dynamical phase transitions (DPT) occur after quenching some global parameters in quantum systems and are signalled by the non-analytical time evolution of the dynamical free energy, which is calculated from the Loschmidt overlap between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-23 Szabolcs Vajna , Balázs Dóra

In the present work, we investigate the effects of long-range interactions on the phase transitions of two-dimensional ferromagnetic models with single-ion anisotropy at zero and finite temperatures. The Hamiltonian is given by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 A. R. Moura

We study time-reversal symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian fluctuating field theories with conserved dynamics, comprising the mesoscopic descriptions of a wide range of nonequilibrium phenomena. They exhibit continuous parity-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-08 Thomas Suchanek , Klaus Kroy , Sarah A. M. Loos

Transitions from classical to quantum behaviour in a spin system with two degenerate ground states separated by twin energy barriers which are asymmetric due to an applied magnetic field are investigated. It is shown that these transitions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. -Y. Lee , H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten , D. K. Park , F. Zimmerschied

We propose a system of four quantum dots designed to study the competition between three types of interactions: Heisenberg, Kondo and Ising. We find a rich phase diagram containing two sharp features: a quantum phase transition (QPT)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-02 Dong E. Liu , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Harold U. Baranger