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Non-Hermitian systems have been widely explored in platforms ranging from photonics to electric circuits. A defining feature of non-Hermitian systems is exceptional points (EPs), where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. Tropical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ayan Banerjee , Rimika Jaiswal , Madhusudan Manjunath , Awadhesh Narayan

We investigate the relation between non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and Lindblad dynamics in nonequilibrium open quantum systems. Non-Hermitian models can extend phase diagrams and enable sensing advantages, but such effects often rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Grazia Di Bello , Fabrizio Pavan , Vittorio Cataudella , Donato Farina

The physics of topological singularities, namely exceptional points (EPs), has been a key to wide range of intriguing and unique physical effects in non-Hermitian systems. In this context, the mutual interactions among four coupled states…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-01 Sayan Bhattacherjee , Harsh K. Gandhi , Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh

Unconventional properties of non-Hermitian systems, such as the existence of exceptional points, have recently been suggested as a resource for sensing. The impact of noise and utility in quantum regimes however remains unclear. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Hoi-Kwan Lau , Aashish A. Clerk

We examine the physical manifestations of exceptional points and passage times in a two-level system which is subjected to quantum measurements and which admits a non-Hermitian description. Using an effective Hamiltonian acting in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Thilagam

Non-Hermitian physics has emerged as a rich field of study, with applications ranging from $PT$-symmetry breaking and skin effects to non-Hermitian topological phase transitions. Yet most studies remain restricted to small-scale or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Yukun Zhang , Wenhao He , Xiao Yuan

Non-Hermitian topological systems have attracted a lot of research activities in recent times, both theoretically and experimentally, due to their unique physical properties and association with open quantum systems. We show that modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Saubhik Sarkar , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Abolfazl Bayat

We demonstrate how to discriminate two non-orthogonal, entangled quantum state which are slightly different from each other by using pseudo-Hermitian system. The positive definite metric operator which makes the pseudo-Hermitian systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ananya Ghatak , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We design several examples of constrained, symmetric quantum circuit dynamics that generate non-equilibrium steady states. The qubit networks maintain local memory of the initial conditions and display inhomogeneous subsystem dynamics over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Unnati Akhouri , Sarah Shandera , Jackson Henry

System-environment interaction may introduce dynamic destruction of quantum coherence, resulting in a special representation named as pointer states. Here, pointer states of an open electronic system are studied. The decoherence effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Haoxiang Jiang , Yu Zhang

Non-Hermitian (NH) systems provide a fertile platform for quantum technologies, owing in part to their distinct dynamical phases. These systems can be characterized by the preservation or spontaneous breaking of parity-time reversal…

We demonstrate a non-Hermitian topological effect that is characterized by having complex eigenvalues only in the edge states of a topological material, despite the fact that the material is completely uniform. Such an effect can be…

Phase transitions are fundamental in nature. A small parameter change near a critical point leads to a qualitative change in system properties. Across a regular phase transition, the system remains in thermal equilibrium and, therefore,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Jingwen Li , Michael Turaev , Masakazu Matsubara , Kristin Kliemt , Cornelius Krellner , Shovon Pal , Manfred Fiebig , Johann Kroha

We consider physical Hamiltonians that can be represented by the multiparametric Gaussian ensembles, theoretically derive the state ensembles for its eigenstates and analyze the effect of varying system conditions on its bipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Devanshu Shekhar , Pragya Shukla

The basic features of the dynamics of open quantum systems, such as the dissipation of energy, the decay of coherences, the relaxation to an equilibrium or non-equilibrium stationary state, and the transport of excitations in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Heinz-Peter Breuer

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit fascinating characteristics such as non-Hermitian topological phenomena and skin effect, yet their studies are limited by the intrinsic difficulties associated with their eigenvalue problems, especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Guang Yang , Yongkang Li , Yongxu Fu , Zhenduo Wang , Yi Zhang

The dynamics of an open quantum system with balanced gain and loss is not described by a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian but rather by Lindblad operators. Nevertheless the phenomenon of PT-symmetry breaking and the impact of exceptional points can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Dorje C. Brody

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit many peculiar dynamic behaviors which never showed up in Hermitian systems. The existence of spectral singularity (SS) for a non-Hermitian scattering center provides a lasing mechanism in the context of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 K. L. Zhang , P. Wang , Z. Song

Owing to the presence of exceptional points (EPs), non-Hermitian (NH) systems can display intriguing topological phenomena without Hermitian analogs. However, experimental characterizations of exceptional topological invariants have been…

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians possessing a discrete real spectrum motivated a remarkable research activity in quantum physics and new insights have emerged. In this paper we formulate concepts of statistical thermodynamics for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Natália Bebiano , João da Providência , João P. da Providência