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We report a novel mechanism of boundary-sensitive PT symmetry breaking in one-dimensional Floquet systems. By designing a time-periodic driving protocol, we realize a Floquet Hamiltonian that is Hermitian under periodic boundary conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Bo Li , He-Ran Wang , Fei Song

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 practical use of non-Hermitian (i.e., typically, PT-symmetric) phenomenological quantum Hamiltonians is discussed as requiring an explicit reconstruction of the {\em ad hoc} Hilbert-space metrics which would render the time-evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 Miloslav Znojil

One-dimensional non-Hermitian quasicrystals with parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetry can simultaneously exhibit localization-delocalization transition, topological phase transition, and PT-symmetry-breaking transition. This motivates…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-26 Guangjie Zhang , Bing Shao , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong , Weiwei Zhu

Non-stationary version of unitary quantum mechanics formulated in non-Hermitian (or, more precisely, in hiddenly Hermitian) interaction-picture representation is illustrated via an elementary $N$ by $N$ matrix Hamiltonian $H(t)$ mimicking a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Miloslav Znojil

Non-Hermitian systems satisfying parity-time (PT) symmetry have aroused considerable interest owing to their exotic features. Anti-PT symmetry is an important counterpart of the PT symmetry, and has been studied in various classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ji Bian , Pengfei Lu , Teng Liu , Hao Wu , Xinxin Rao , Kunxu Wang , Qifeng Lao , Yang Liu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

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

We introduce a very simple, exactly solvable PT-symmetric non-Hermitian model with real spectrum, and derive a closed formula for the metric operator which relates the problem to a Hermitian one.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Krejcirik , H. Bila , M. Znojil

Starting with the modified Dirac equations for free massive particles with the $\gamma_5$-extension of the physical mass $m\rightarrow m_1 + \gamma_5 m_2$, we consider equations of relativistic quantum mechanics in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-03 V. N. Rodionov

In the recently quickly developing context of quantum mechanics of unitary systems using a time-independent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $H$ (having real spectrum and defined as acting in an unphysical but user-friendly Hilbert space ${\cal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Miloslav Znojil

It is shown that if a Hamiltonian $H$ is Hermitian, then there always exists an operator P having the following properties: (i) P is linear and Hermitian; (ii) P commutes with H; (iii) P^2=1; (iv) the nth eigenstate of H is also an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Carl M. Bender , Peter N. Meisinger , Qinghai Wang

In 1998, Carl Bender challenged the perceived wisdom of quantum mechanics that the Hamiltonian operator describing any quantum mechanical system has to be Hermitian. He showed that Hamiltonians that are invariant under combined parity-time…

We investigate in this paper time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, which consist respectively of SU(1,1) and SU(2) generators. The former Hamiltonian is PT symmetric but the latter one is not. A time-dependent non-unitary operator is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Nadjat Amaouche , Maroua Sekhri , Rahma Zerimeche , Maamache Mustapha , J. -Q. Liang

Parity-time ($PT$) symmetric Hamiltonians are generally non-Hermitian and give rise to exotic behaviour in quantum systems at exceptional points, where eigenvectors coalesce. The recent realisation of $PT$-symmetric Hamiltonians in quantum…

We prove that in finite dimensions, a Parity-Time (PT)-symmetric Hamiltonian is necessarily pseudo-Hermitian regardless of whether it is diagonalizable or not. This result is different from Mostafazadeh's, which requires the Hamiltonian to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ruili Zhang , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao

Recently developed parity (P) and time-reversal (T) symmetric non-Hermitian systems govern a rich variety of new and characteristically distinct physical properties, which may or may not have a direct analog in their Hermitian counterparts.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-24 Ananya Ghatak , Tanmoy Das

We briefly explain some simple arguments based on pseudo Hermiticity, supersymmetry and PT-symmetry which explain the reality of the spectrum of some non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. Subsequently we employ PT-symmetry as a guiding principle to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-17 Andreas Fring

In the context of traditional quantum-control considerations it is conjectured that one of the promising new strategies of the constructive model building could be sought in a non-stationary upgrade of the formalism of PT-symmetric quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Miloslav Znojil

Quantum information platforms enable analog quantum simulations, such as quantum annealing, offering a promising route to solving complex combinatorial optimization problems. Here, we propose a quantum information architecture based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Yana Komissarova , Mikhail V. Fistul , Ilya M. Eremin

Quasi-Hermitian quantum systems, including $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric ones, can be mapped to equivalent Hermitian systems via a similarity transformation that redefines the inner product with a positive-definite metric operator. Although an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Ming-Zhang Wang , Xu-Yang Hou , Hao Guo