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A real potential Hamiltonian has real energy bound states below the scattering threshold and complex energy resonances above it. Scattering states are not square integrable, being instead delta function normalized. This lack of square…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Philip D. Mannheim

We propose an interacting nonhermitian model described by a two-mode quadratic Hamiltonian along with an interaction term to locate and analyze the presence of an exceptional point in the system. Each mode is guided by a Swanson-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Bijan Bagchi , Rahul Ghosh , Sauvik Sen

In three dimensional scattering, the energy continuum wavefunction is obtained by utilizing two independent solutions of the reference wave equation. One of them is typically singular (usually, near the origin of configuration space). Both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Alhaidari , H. Bahlouli , M. S. Abdelmonem , F. S. Al-Ameen , T. H. Al-Abdulaal

Exceptional points (EPs) are complex singularities of parametric linear operators where two or more eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. EPs are attracting increasing interest in mechanical metamaterials due to their strong potentials for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Weidi Wang , Alireza V. Amirkhizi

The emergence of exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems represents an intriguing phenomenon characterized by the coalescence of eigenenergies and eigenstates. When a system approaches an exceptional point, it exhibits a heightened…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Shu-Xuan Wang , Zhongbo Yan

We show that a two-level non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with constant off-diagonal exchange elements can be analyzed exactly when the underlying exceptional point is perfectly encircled in the complex plane. The state evolution of this system is…

In a recent paper Bender and Mannheim showed that the unequal-frequency fourth-order derivative Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator model has a realization in which the energy eigenvalues are real and bounded below, the Hilbert-space inner product is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Carl M. Bender , Philip D. Mannheim

We analyze the behavior of a non-Hermitian opened one-dimensional quantum system with $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry. This system is built by a dimer, with balanced gains and losses described by a parameter $\gamma$. By varying $\gamma$ the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 J. Colín-Gálvez , E. Castaño , G. Báez , V. Domínguez-Rocha

We characterize the soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation on the half line with linearizable boundary conditions. Using an extension of the solution to the whole line and the corresponding symmetries of the scattering…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 Gino Biondini , Guenbo Hwang

One of the unique features of non-Hermitian~(NH) systems is the appearance of non-Hermitian degeneracies known as exceptional points~(EPs). The extensively studied defective EPs occur when the Hamiltonian becomes non-diagonalizable. Aside…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Sharareh Sayyad , Marcus Stalhammar , Lukas Rodland , Flore K. Kunst

Among the list of one dimensional solvable Hamiltonians, we find the Hamiltonian with the Rosen--Morse II potential. The first objective is to analyze the scattering matrix corresponding to this potential. We show that it includes a series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Carlos San Millán , Manuel Gadella , Şengül Kuru , Javier Negro

The most elementary non-Hermitian quantum square-well problem with real spectrum is considered. The Schroedinger equation is required discrete and endowed with PT-symmetric Robin (i.e., two-parametric) boundary conditions. Some of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Miloslav Znojil

Applying the inverse scattering transform to study a focusing two-component Hirota equation with nonzero boundary conditions at infinity. Through the spectral problem and the adjoint spectral problem, the analyticity properties and symmetry…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-02-25 Feng Zhang , Pengfei Han , Yi Zhang

Exceptional points~(EPs) appear as degeneracies in the spectrum of non-Hermitian matrices at which the eigenvectors coalesce. In general, an EP of order $n$ may find room to emerge if $2(n-1)$ real constraints are imposed. Our results show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Sharareh Sayyad , Flore K. Kunst

Exceptional points at which eigenvalues and eigenvectors of non-Hermitian matrices coalesce are ubiquitous in the description of a wide range of platforms from photonic or mechanical metamaterials to open quantum systems. Here, we introduce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Tsuneya Yoshida , Emil J. Bergholtz , Tomáš Bzdušek

An outstanding property of any Hamiltonian system is the symplecticity of its flow, namely, the continuous trajectory preserves volume in phase space. Given a symplectic but discrete trajectory generated by a transition matrix applied at a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Liyan Ni , Yihao Zhao , Zhonghan Hu

The statement in the title discussed earlier in association with the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator with equal frequencies is illustrated for an elementary matrix model. In the limit when the order of the exceptional point N tends to infinity,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. V. Smilga

This paper is concerned with non-Hermitian degeneracy and exceptional points associated with resonances in an acoustic scattering problem with sound-hard obstacles. The aim is to find non-Hermitian degenerate (defective) resonances using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Kei Matsushima , Takayuki Yamada

The spectral and transport properties of a non-Hermitian tight-binding lattice with unidirectional hopping are theoretically investigated in three different geometrical settings. It is shown that, while for the infinitely-extended (open)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Stefano Longhi

Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracy of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, at which the eigenvalues, along with their eigenvectors, coalesce. Their orders are given by the Jordan decomposition. Here, we focus on higher-order EPs arising in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Kang Yang , Ipsita Mandal