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The recently theoretical and experimental researches related to $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric system have attracted unprecedented attention because of various novel features and potentials in extending canonical quantum mechanics. However, as…

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An optical realization of the damped quantum oscillator, based on transverse light dynamics in an optical resonator with slowly-moving mirrors, is theoretically suggested. The optical resonator setting provides a simple implementation of…

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The harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian, when augmented by a non-Hermitian $\cal{PT}$-symmetric part, can be transformed into a Hermitian Hamiltonian. This is achieved by introducing a metric which, in general, renders other observables such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. P. Musumbu , H. B. Geyer , W. D. Heiss

A harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian augmented by a non-Hermitian \pt-symmetric part and its su(1,1) generalizations, for which a family of positive-definite metric operators was recently constructed, are re-examined in a supersymmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Quesne

The driven quantum harmonic oscillator is fundamental to a number of important physical systems. Here, we consider the quantum harmonic oscillator under non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric driving, showing that the resulting set of Wigner-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Samuel Alperin

We provide an analytic propagator for non-Hermitian dimers showing linear gain or losses in the quantum regime. In particular, we focus on experimentally feasible realizations of the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer and provide their mean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 José Delfino Huerta Morales , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

Parity-time (PT) symmetry in non-Hermitian optical systems promises distinct optical effects and applications not found in conservative optics. Its counterpart, anti-PT symmetry, subscribes another class of intriguing optical phenomena and…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-26 Heng Fan , Jiayang Chen , Zitong Zhao , Jianming Wen , Yuping Huang

We systematically study the non-Hermitian version of the one-dimensional anisotropic XY model, which in its original form, is a unique exactly solvable quantum spin model for understanding the quantum phase transition. The distinguishing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

In the present work, we explore the case of a general PT-symmetric dimer in the context of two both linearly and nonlinearly coupled cubic oscillators. To obtain an analytical handle on the system, we first explore the rotating wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-26 J. Cuevas-Maraver , A. Khare , P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Xu , A. Saxena

Parity-Time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry has become an important concept in the design of synthetic optical materials, with exotic functionalities such as unidirectional transport and non-reciprocal reflection. At exceptional points, this…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-22 K. E. Ballantine , J. Ruostekoski

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

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…

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The two dimensional set of canonical relations giving rise to minimal uncertainties previously constructed from a q-deformed oscillator algebra is further investigated. We provide a representation for this algebra in terms of a flat…

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The response of a test particle, both for the free case and under the harmonic oscillator potential, to circularly polarized gravitational waves is investigated in a noncommutative quantum mechanical setting. The system is quantized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Anirban Saha , Swarup Saha

I will provide a pedagogical introduction to non-Hermitian quantum systems that are PT-symmetric, that is they are left invariant under a simultaneous parity transformation (P) and time-reversal (T). I will explain how generalised versions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Andreas Fring

Non-Hermitian optical systems with parity-time (PT) symmetry have recently revealed many intriguing prospects that outperform conservative structures. The prevous works are mostly rooted in complex arrangements with controlled gain-loss…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-13 Yue Jiang , Yefeng Mei , Ying Zuo , Yanhua Zhai , Jensen Li , Jianming Wen , Shengwang Du

Supersymmetry between bosons and fermions is modeled within PT- symmetric quantum mechanics. A non-Hermitian alternative to the Witten's supersymmetric quantum mechanics is obtained.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-07 Miloslav Znojil

We investigate bicomplex Hamiltonian systems in the framework of an analogous version of the Schrodinger equation. Since in such a setting three different types of conjugates of bicomplex numbers appear, each is found to define in a natural…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Bijan Bagchi , Abhijit Banerjee

Over the last two decades, advances in fabrication have led to significant progress in creating patterned heterostructures that support either carriers, such as electrons or holes, with specific band structure or electromagnetic waves with…

We offer a new Hamiltonian formulation of the classical Pais-Uhlenbeck Oscillator and consider its canonical quantization. We show that for the non-degenerate case where the frequencies differ, the quantum Hamiltonian operator is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Ali Mostafazadeh