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The celebrated Hartman effect, according to which, the tunneling time through a opaque barrier is independent of the width of the barrier for a sufficiently thick barrier, is not well understood theoretically and experimentally till today.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Mohammad Hasan , Vibhav Narayan Singh , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

Tunneling hetero-junctions (THJs) usually induce confined states at the regions close to the tunnel junction which significantly affect their transport properties. Accurate numerical modeling of such effects requires combining the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Tarek A. Ameen , Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Jun Z. Huang , Michael Povolotskyi , Rajib Rahman , Gerhard Klimeck

Non-Hermitian dynamics in open systems can give rise to a variety of fascinating non-equilibrium phenomena, ranging from symmetry-breaking transitions to directional energy flow. Parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking determines the occurrence…

Chaotic tunneling in a driven double-well system is investigated in absence as well as in the presence of dissipation. As the constitutive mechanism of chaos-assisted tunneling, we focus on the dynamics in the vicinity of three-level…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-21 Peter Hanggi , Sigmund Kohler , Thomas Dittrich

The non-Hermitian model exhibits counterintuitive phenomena that are not observed in the Hermitian counterparts. To probe the competition between non-Hermitian and Hermitian interacting components of the Hamiltonian, we focus on a system…

We investigate the tunneling time of a wave packet propagating through a non-Hermitian potential $V_{r} - iV_{i}$ in space-fractional quantum mechanics. By applying the stationary phase method, we derive a closed-form expression for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Mohammad Umar , Vibhav Narayan Singh , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We consider tunneling of two interacting atoms with an even spatial symmetry. The atoms are prepared in two lowest excited states with respect to relative and center-of-mass motions. We observe monotonic and non-monotonic dependence of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 I. S. Ishmukhamedov , A. S. Ishmukhamedov

We analyze several non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with antiunitary symmetry from the point of view of their point-group symmetry. It enables us to predict the degeneracy of the energy levels and to reduce the dimension of the matrices necessary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Francisco M. Fernández , Javier Garcia

In this paper, based on a one-dimensional non-Hermitian spin model with $\mathcal{RT}$-invariant term, we study the non-Hermitian physics for the two (nearly) degenerate ground states. By using the high-order perturbation method, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-25 Can Wang , Meng-Lei Yang , Cui-Xian Guo , Xiao-Ming Zhao , Su-Peng Kou

The tunneling Hamiltonian has proven to be a useful method in many body physics to treat particle tunneling between different states represented as wavefunctions. Here we apply a generalization of the way we formed appropriate wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Beckwith

A non-hermitian deformation of the one-dimensional transverse Ising model is shown to have the property of quasi-hermiticity. The transverse Ising chain is obtained from the starting non-hermitian Hamiltonian through a similarity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-09 Tetsuo Deguchi , Pijush K. Ghosh

For the stationary one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (or Gross-Pitaevskii equation) nonlinear resonant transmission through a finite number of equidistant identical barriers is studied using a (semi-) analytical approach. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 K Rapedius , H J Korsch

A tunnelling conductivity between a heavy fermion metal and a simple metallic point is considered. We show that at low temperatures this conductivity can be noticeably dissymmetrical with respect to the change of voltage bias. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 V. R. Shaginyan

The supersymmetric structure of a generalized non-Hermitian driven two-level system is demonstrated. A unitary rotation turns the Hamiltonian into a more convenient form. After decoupling a set of differential equations, the supersymmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Ivan A. Bocanegra-Garay , Luis M. Nieto

This work concerns the theoretical description of the quantum dynamics of molecular junctions with thermal fluctuations and probability losses To this end, we propose a theory for describing non-Hermitian quantum systems embedded in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Andrea Grimaldi , Alessandro Sergi , Antonino Messina

The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian describes the effective dynamics of a system coupled to a continuously measured bath, and can exhibit anti-unitary symmetries that give rise to exceptional points and broken phases with complex eigenvalues,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sejal Ahuja , Keshav Das Agarwal , Aditi Sen De

While non-Hermitian systems are normally constructed through incoherent coupling to a larger environment, recent works have shown that under certain conditions coherent couplings can be used to similar effect. We show that this new paradigm…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Noah Flemens , Jeffrey Moses

The effect of non-Hermiticity in band topology has sparked many discussions on non-Hermitian topological physics. It has long been known that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit real energy spectra under the condition of parity-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Yang Long , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit striking exceptions from the paradigmatic bulk-boundary correspondence, including the failure of bulk Bloch band invariants in predicting boundary states and the (dis)appearance of boundary states at parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Flore K. Kunst , Elisabet Edvardsson , Jan Carl Budich , Emil J. Bergholtz

The fundamental concept underlying topological phenomena posits the geometric phase associated with eigenstates. In contrast to this prevailing notion, theoretical studies on time-varying Hamiltonians allow for a new type of topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Pengfei Lu , Yang Liu , Qifeng Lao , Teng Liu , Xinxin Rao , Ji Bian , Hao Wu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo