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Understanding the general principles underlying strongly interacting quantum states out of equilibrium is one of the most important tasks of current theoretical physics. With experiments accessing the intricate dynamics of many-body quantum…

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We study sudden quantum quenches in which the initial states are selected to be either eigenstates of an integrable Hamiltonian that is nonmappable to a noninteracting one or a nonintegrable Hamiltonian, while the Hamiltonian after the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-15 Kai He , Marcos Rigol

Efficiency of quantum transport through aggregates with multiple end-points or traps proves to be an emergent and a highly non-equilibrium phenomenon. We present a numerically exact approach for computing the emergent time scale and amount…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Devansh Sharma , Amartya Bose

We study the relaxation dynamics of strongly interacting quantum systems that display a kind of many-body localization in spite of their translation-invariant Hamiltonian. We show that dynamics starting from a random initial configuration…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-08 Mauro Schiulaz , Alessandro Silva , Markus Müller

Current studies about the continuous-variable systems in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics heavily revolved around the singularities in the eigenspectrum by mimicking their discrete-variable counterparts. Discussions over the nonunitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhu-yao Jin , Jun Jing

We present a new variational method for investigating the ground state and out of equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body bosonic and fermionic systems. Our approach is based on constructing variational wavefunctions which extend Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Tao Shi , Eugene Demler , J. Ignacio Cirac

We couple Fermions to the isospinning (2+1) baby-skyrme model. We show that consistent rotationally invariant localised solutions can be found but the Fermionic solutions to the equations of motion are not in general eigenstates of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-14 Marco Barsanti , Gianni Tallarita

The non-Hermitian skin effect, by which the eigenstates of Hamiltonian are predominantly localized at the boundary, has revealed a strong sensitivity of non-Hermitian systems to the boundary condition. Here we experimentally observe a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Lei Xiao , Wen-Tan Xue , Fei Song , Yu-Min Hu , Wei Yi , Zhong Wang , Peng Xue

We develop a framework to solve a large class of linearly driven non-Hermitian quantum systems. Such a class of models in the Hermitian scenario is commonly known as multi-state Landau-Zener models. The non-hermiticity is due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Rajesh K. Malla , Julia Cen , Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Avadh Saxena

We model the dynamics of a closed quantum system brought out of mechanical equilibrium, undergoing a non-driven, spontaneous, thermodynamic transformation. In particular, we consider a quantum particle in a box with a moving and insulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sofia Sgroi , Mauro Paternostro

We develop a resonance theory to describe the evolution of open systems with time-dependent dynamics. Our approach is based on piecewise constant Hamiltonians: we represent the evolution on each constant bit using a recently developed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Marco Merkli , Shannon Starr

We reveal that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with nonreciprocal coupling can achieve amplification of initial states without external gain due to a kind of inherent source. We discuss the source and its effect on time evolution in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Jung-Wan Ryu

Confinement of excitations induces quasilocalized dynamics in disorder-free isolated quantum many-body systems in one spatial dimension. This occurrence is signalled by severe suppression of quantum correlation spreading and of entanglement…

The aim of the paper is to study the question whether or not equilibrium states exist in open quantum systems that are embedded in at least two environments and are described by a non-Hermitian Hamilton operator $\cal H$. The eigenfunctions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Ingrid Rotter

In one-dimensional quantum lattice models with open boundaries, we find and study localization at the lattice edge. We show that edge-localized eigenstates can be found in both bosonic and fermionic systems, specifically, in the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-10 Ricardo A. Pinto , Masudul Haque , Sergej Flach

Quasistationary states are long-lived nonequilibrium states, observed in some systems with long-range interactions under deterministic Hamiltonian evolution. These intriguing non-Boltzmann states relax to equilibrium over times which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Shamik Gupta , David Mukamel

Concepts like `typicality' and the `eigenstate thermalization hypothesis' aim at explaining the apparent equilibration of quantum systems, possibly after a very long time. However, these concepts are not concerned with the specific way in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Lars Knipschild , Jochen Gemmer

We present a systematic study of statistical mechanics for non-Hermitian quantum systems. Our work reveals that the stability of a non-Hermitian system necessitates the existence of a single path-dependent conserved quantity, which, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-04 Kui Cao , Su-Peng Kou

When an extended system is coupled at its opposite boundaries to two reservoirs at different temperatures or chemical potentials, it cannot achieve a global thermal equilibrium and is instead driven to a set of current-carrying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-30 Michael J. Gullans , David A. Huse

We introduce a generic method for computing groundstates that is applicable to a wide range of spatially anisotropic 2D many-body quantum systems. By representing the 2D system using a low-energy 1D basis set, we obtain an effective 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Sam Mardazad , Nicolas Laflorencie , Johannes Motruk , Adrian Kantian