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Recently, much research has been carried out on Hamiltonians that are not Hermitian but are symmetric under space-time reflection, that is, Hamiltonians that exhibit PT symmetry. Investigations of the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl M. Bender , Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston , Bernhard K. Meister

A non-Hermitian system can exhibit extensive sensitivity of its complex energy spectrum to the imposed boundary conditions, which is beyond any known phenomenon from Hermitian systems. In addition to topologically protected boundary modes,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-15 Ching Hua Lee , Ronny Thomale

Given a set of transmission eigenvalues, we describe the connection of such a set to the indicator functions in entire function theory. The indicator functions control the asymptotic growth rate of the solution of the Sturm-Liouville…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-26 Lung-Hui Chen

Non-Hermitian topological phases in static and periodically driven systems have attracted great attention in recent years. Finding dynamical probes for these exotic phases would be of great importance in the detection and application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Longwen Zhou

In parameter space of nonlinear dynamical systems, windows of periodic states are aligned following routes of period-adding configuring periodic window sequences. In state space of driven nonlinear oscillators, we determine the torsion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-11 E. S. Medeiros , R. O. Medrano-T , I. L. Caldas , S. L. T. De Souza

This paper is concerned with continuous dependence of the n-th eigenvalue on self-adjoint discrete Sturm-Liouville problems. The n-th eigenvalue is considered as a function in the space of the problems. A necessary and sufficient condition…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Hao Zhu , Yuming Shi

The search of topological states in non-Hermitian systems has gained a strong momentum over the last two years climbing to the level of an emergent research front. In this Perspective we give an overview with a focus in connecting this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Luis E. F. Foa Torres

In the band theory for non-Hermitian systems, the energy eigenvalues, which are complex, can exhibit non-trivial topology which is not present in Hermitian systems. In one dimension, it was recently noted theoretically and demonstrated…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-19 Charles C. Wojcik , Kai Wang , Avik Dutt , Janet Zhong , Shanhui Fan

PT-symmetric systems can have a real spectrum even when their Hamiltonian is non-hermitian, but develop a complex spectrum when the degree of non-hermiticity increases. Here we utilize random-matrix theory to show that this spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Henning Schomerus

We study the effect of PT-symmetric complex potentials on the transport properties of non-Hermitian systems, which consist of an infinite linear chain and two side-coupled defect points with PT-symmetric complex on-site potentials. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Baogang Zhu , Rong Lü , Shu Chen

In this work, we analytically derive a semi-classical equation of motion describing the zitterbewegung effects arising in the dynamics of wavepackets in non-Hermitian systems. In Hermitian non-relativistic quantum systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Yow-Ming Robin Hu , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Eliezer Estrecho

I show that a single embedded non-Hermitian defect in a one-dimensional topological system at certain degrees of non-Hermiticity can remove the topological mode from the edge and restore it inside the lattice at the same place where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Hamidreza Ramezani

A nonzero non-Hermitian winding number indicates that a gapped system is in a nontrivial topological class due to the non-Hermiticity of its Hamiltonian. While for Hermitian systems nontrivial topological quantum numbers are reflected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein , Bernd Rosenow

In this work, we discuss a non-Hermitian system described via a one-dimensional single-particle tight-binding model, where the non-Hermiticity is governed by random nearest-neighbour tunnellings, such that the left-to-right and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-19 Aitijhya Saha , Debraj Rakshit

Non-Hermitian skin-edge states emerge only at one edge in one-dimensional nonreciprocal chains, where all states are localized at the edge irrespective of eigenvalues. The bulk topological number is the winding number associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Motohiko Ezawa

We examine the spectrum of a family of Sturm--Liouville operators with regularly spaced delta function potentials parametrized by increasing strength. The limiting behavior of the eigenvalues under this spectral flow was described in a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Thomas Beck , Isabel Bors , Grace Conte , Graham Cox , Jeremy L. Marzuola

The Sturm oscillation property, i.e. that the $n$-th eigenfunction of a Sturm-Liouville operator on an interval has $n -1$ zeros (nodes), has been well studied. This result is known to hold when the interval is replaced by a metric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ram Band , August J. Krueger

We show that the rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection, where a rotating fluid is heated from below, exhibits non-Hermitian topological states. Recently, Favier and Knobloch (JFM 2020) hypothesized that the robust wall modes in rapidly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Furu Zhang , Jin-Han Xie

We explore an alternative way of finding the link between a PT non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and a Hermitian one. Based on the analysis of the scattering problem for an imaginary potential and its time reversal process, it is shown that any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 L. Jin , Z. Song

We analyze chiral topological edge modes in a non-Hermitian variant of the 2D Dirac equation. Such modes appear at interfaces between media with different "masses" and/or signs of the "non-Hermitian charge". The existence of these edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Daniel Leykam , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Chunli Huang , Y. D. Chong , Franco Nori