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Open quantum systems exhibit a range of novel out-of-equilibrium behavior due to the interplay between coherent quantum dynamics and dissipation. Of particular interest in these systems are driven, dissipative transitions, the emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 H. F. H. Cheung , Y. S. Patil , M. Vengalattore

A rapid restoration of the bath state is usually required to induce Markovian dynamics for an open quantum system, which typically can be realized only in limits such as weak system-bath coupling and infinitely large bath. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-01 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun , Andrew N. Jordan

Non-Hermitian systems based on parity-time (PT) symmetry reveal rich physics beyond the Hermitian regime. So far, realizations of PT-symmetric systems have been limited to the spatial domain. Here we theoretically and experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-12 Fangxing Zhang , Yaming Feng , Li Ge , Wenjie Wan

In this article we study the symmetry breaking phenomenon of solutions of noncooperative elliptic systems. We apply the degree for G-invariant strongly indefinite functionals to obtain simultaneously a symmetry breaking and a global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Piotr Stefaniak

Symmetry breaking plays a pivotal role in modern physics. Although self-similarity is also a symmetry and appears ubiquitously in nature, a fundamental question is whether self-similarity breaking makes sense or not. Here, by identifying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-05 Weilun Yuan , Shuai Yin , Fan Zhong

Characterizing nonequilibrium dynamics in quantum many-body systems is a challenging frontier of physics. In this Letter, we systematically construct solvable nonintegrable quantum circuits that exhibit exact hidden Markovian subsystem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 He-Ran Wang , Xiao-Yang Yang , Zhong Wang

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is responsible for the rich phenomena in equilibrium physics. Driving a system out-of-equilibrium can significantly enrich the possibility of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which occurs not only in space, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Mingxi Yue , Zi Cai

The understanding of out-of-equilibrium physics, especially dynamic instabilities and dynamic phase transitions, is one of the major challenges of contemporary science, spanning the broadest wealth of research areas that range from quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-09 Alexey Galda , Valerii M. Vinokur

For boundary-driven non-equilibrium Markov models of non-interacting particles in one dimension, either in continuous space with the Fokker-Planck dynamics involving an arbitrary force $F(x)$ and an arbitrary diffusion coefficient $D(x)$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Cecile Monthus

Optical instabilities in moving media are linked to a spontaneous parity-time symmetry breaking of the system. It is shown that in general the time evolution of the electromagnetic waves in moving media is determined by a non-Hermitian…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. G. Silveirinha

In order to model realistic quantum devices it is necessary to simulate quantum systems strongly coupled to their environment. To date, most understanding of open quantum systems is restricted either to weak system-bath couplings, or to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Aidan Strathearn , Peter Kirton , Dainius Kilda , Jonathan Keeling , Brendon W. Lovett

Uncovering and understanding universal dynamics in matter far from equilibrium remains a key challenge. In this work, we identify a so far unrecognized form of universal behavior that emerges after a sudden symmetry-breaking quench at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Tobias Wiener , Laurin Brunner , Markus Heyl

We present a detailed study of the dynamics of correlations in non-Markovian environments, applying the hierarchy equations approach. This theoretical treatment is able to take the system-bath interaction into consideration carefully. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chuan-Feng Li , Hao-Tian Wang , Hong-Yuan Yuan , Rong-Chun Ge , Guang-Can Guo

Spontaneous symmetry breaking has revolutionized the understanding in numerous fields of modern physics. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in a cavity quantum electrodynamics system in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yu-Kun Lu , Pai Peng , Qi-Tao Cao , Da Xu , Jan Wiersig , Qihuang Gong , Yun-Feng Xiao

We consider the role of degeneracy in Parity-Time (PT) symmetry breaking for non-hermitian wave equations beyond one dimension. We show that if the spectrum is degenerate in the absence of T-breaking, and T is broken in a generic manner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Li Ge , A. Douglas Stone

We introduce a method of characterization of non-Markovianity using coherence of a system interacting with the environment. We show that under the allowed incoherent operations, monotonicity of a valid coherence measure is affected due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Titas Chanda , Samyadeb Bhattacharya

We propose random non-Hermitian Hamiltonians to model the generic stochastic nonlinear dynamics of a quantum state in Hilbert space. Our approach features an underlying linearity in the dynamical equations, ensuring the applicability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Pei Wang

In this work we investigate symmetry breaking in the presence of a turbulent environment. The transition from a symmetric state to a symmetry-breaking state is demonstrated using two examples: (i) the transition of a two-dimensional flow to…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. One of the defining features of symmetry broken phases is that the large system size limit and the vanishing external field limit do not commute. In this work, we study a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-24 Yaozong Hu , Haruki Watanabe

A dynamical mechanism for symmetry breaking is investigated under the circumstances with the finite curvature, finite size and non-trivial topology. A four- and eight-fermion interaction model is considered as a prototype model which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Masako Hayashi , Tomohiro Inagaki