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We develop the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian formalism to describe Weyl fermions of type III and IV. The spectrum of Hamiltonian has an unusual type of anisotropy. Namely, the hermiticity of Hamiltonian strongly depends on the direction in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-24 Zaur Z. Alisultanov , Edvin G. Idrisov

The effect of non-Hermiticity in band topology has sparked many discussions on non-Hermitian topological physics. It has long been known that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit real energy spectra under the condition of parity-time…

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In real life application all signals are not obtained from uniform shifts; so there is a natural question regarding analysis and decompositions of these types of signals by a stable mathematical tool. Gabardo and Nashed and Gabardo and Yu…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Owais Ahmad

A theoretical model based on two-point scatterers is suggested to investigate scattering of partially coherent radiation by a non-Hermitian localized structure, invariant under the simultaneous symmetry operations of parity inversion and…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Paulo. A. Brandão , Solange B. Cavalcanti

We show that degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) in nonlinear optics can be described by an effective Hamiltonian that is pseudo-Hermitian, which enables a transition between a pseudo-Hermitian phase with real eigenvalues and a broken…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-18 Li Ge , Wenjie Wan

Here we introduce interferometric devices by combining optical feedback (cavities) with unbiased multiports, which unlike traditional beam dividers, allow light to reflect back out of the port from which it originated. By replacing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Christopher R. Schwarze , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

We study the propagation of waves in a set of absorbing subwavelength scatterers positioned on a stealth hyperuniform point pattern. We show that spatial correlations in the disorder substantially enhance absorption compared to a fully…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Florian Bigourdan , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) cage has a spectrum fully constituted by the flat bands and has the capacity to confine arbitrary excitation. The confined excitation in coupled waveguides propagates without diffraction. Exploited the unidirectionality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 S. M. Zhang , L. Jin

A non-commuting measurement transfers, via the apparatus, information encoded in a system's state to the external "observer". Classical measurements determine properties of physical objects. In the quantum realm, the very same notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Bartłomiej Gardas , Sebastian Deffner , Avadh Saxena

We present an evaluation of some recent attempts at understanding the role of pseudo-Hermitian and PT-symmetric Hamiltonians in modeling unitary quantum systems and elaborate on a particular physical phenomenon whose discovery originated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ali Mostafazadeh

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit a distinctive type of wave propagation, due to the intricate interplay of non-Hermiticity and disorder. Here, we investigate the spreading dynamics in the archetypal non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'e model with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-03 Ze-Yu Xing , Shu Chen , Haiping Hu

The transmission properties through a saturable cubic-quintic nonlinear defect attached to lateral linear chains is investigated. Particular attention is directed to the possible non-reciprocal diode-like transmission when the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-02-14 Muhammad Abdul Wasay , M. L. Lyra , B. S. Ham

Despite their apparent simplicity, coupled oscillators exhibit surprisingly complex phenomena. Two notable examples are Berry phase (a geometric or topological aspect of the oscillators' memory) and non-Hermiticity (the often…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 J. R. Lane , C. Guria , J. Höller , T. D. Montalvo , Y. S. S. Patil , J. G. E. Harris

A localized non-Hermitian potential can operate as a coherent perfect absorber or as a laser for nonlinear waves. The effect is illustrated for an array of optical waveguides, with the central waveguide being either active or absorbing. The…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Herwig Ott , Vladimir V. Konotop

Multimode nonlinear optical systems are highly valued for their ability to withstand large amounts of optical power, transmit data with high bandwidth, perform physical computations, generate quantum correlations, and much more. For many of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jamison Sloan , Sachin Vaidya , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljačić

Space-time modulated metamaterials support extraordinary rich applications, such as parametric amplification, frequency conversion and non-reciprocal transmission. However, experimental realization of space-time modulation is highly…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Xinhua Wen , Xinghong Zhu , Alvin Fan , Wing Yim Tam , Jie Zhu , Fabrice Lemoult , Mathias Fink , Jensen Li

We show that similarity (or equivalent) transformations enable one to construct non-Hermitian operators with real spectrum. In this way we can also prove and generalize the results obtained by other authors by means of a gauge-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Francisco M. Fernández

Inspired by non-Hermitian systems, we study reflection and transmission in a stack of thin films composed by the repetition of a bipartite unit cell. We aim for controlled reflection and transmission using lossless and lossy materials in…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-25 A. Padrón-Godínez , C. G. Treviño-Palacios

We study the transport and spectral properties of a non-Hermitian one-dimensional disordered lattice, the diagonal matrix elements of which are random complex variables taking both positive (loss) and negative (gain) imaginary values: Their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-16 A. F. Tzortzakakis , K. G. Makris , A. Szameit , E. N. Economou