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A comparative study of entropy dynamics as an indicator of physical behavior in an open two-state system with balanced gain and loss is presented. We distinguish the perspective taken in utilizing the conventional framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Alexander Felski , Alireza Beygi , Christos Karapoulitidis , S. P. Klevansky

In recent years, extensive research has been dedicated to the study of parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, which involves the engineered balance of gain and loss in non-Hermitian optics. Complementary to $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-05 Bo-Wang Zhang , Cheng Shang , J. Y. Sun , Zhuo-Cheng Gu , X. X. Yi

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model serves as a canonical example of a one-dimensional topological insulator, yet its behavior under more complex, realistic conditions remains a fertile ground for research. This paper presents a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Souvik Ghosh , Sayak Roy

Exceptional points (EPs) play a vital role in non-Hermitian (NH) systems, driving unique dynamical phenomena and promising innovative applications. However, the NH dynamics at EPs remains obscure due to the incomplete biorthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Yan Xing , Xuedong Zhao , Hui Jing , Shi-Lei Su

Non-Hermitian topological systems simultaneously posses two antagonistic features: ultra sensitivity due to exceptional points and robustness of topological zero energy modes, and it is unclear which one prevails under different…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-08 I. Komis , D. Kaltsas , S. Xia , H. Buljan , Z. Chen , K. G. Makris

In an anti-Hermitian linear system, all energy eigenvalues are purely imaginary and the corresponding eigenvectors are orthogonal. This implies that no stationary state is available in such systems. We consider an anti-Hermitian lattice…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Tombuloglu , C. Yuce

The interaction of a discrete state coupled to a continuum is a longstanding problem of major interest in different areas of quantum and classical physics. In Hermitian models, several dynamical decoupling schemes have been suggested, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Stefano Longhi

We study the formation of band gap bound states induced by a non-Hermitian impurity embedded in a Hermitian system. We show that a pair of bound states emerges inside the band gap when a parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) imaginary potential is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 K. L. Zhang , X. M. Yang , Z. Song

Although non-Hermitian dynamics near exceptional points (EPs) provide a route to accelerated entanglement generation, entanglement can also be generated far from EPs at comparable or even higher rates. However, the behavior of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Hamid Sakhouf , Peng Xue

Pseudo-Hermitian operators can be used in modeling electromagnetic wave propagation in stationary lossless media. We extend this method to a class of non-dispersive anisotropic media that may display loss or gain. We explore three concrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Mostafazadeh , G. Scolarici

The discrete Hamiltonian of Su, Schrieffer and Heeger (SSH) is a well-known one-dimensional translation-invariant model in condensed matter physics. The model consists of two atoms per unit cell and describes in-cell and out-of-cell…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

The hallmark of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases is the existence of anomalous boundary states, which can only be realized with the corresponding bulk system. In this work, we show that for every Hermitian anomalous boundary mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Jong Yeon Lee , Junyeong Ahn , Hengyun Zhou , Ashvin Vishwanath

Non-Hermitian quantum systems, characterized by their ability to model open systems with gain and loss, have unveiled striking phenomena such as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), where eigenstates localize at boundaries under open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chakradhar Rangi , Juana Moreno , Ka-Ming Tam

We show in the present paper that pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems with even PT-symmetry admit a degeneracy structure. This kind of degeneracy is expected traditionally in the odd PT-symmetric systems which is appropriate to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 B. Choutri , O. Cherbal , F. Z. Ighezou , M. Drir

Nonhermitian systems provide new avenues to create topological defect states. An unresolved general question is how much the formation of these states depends on asymmetric backscattering, be it nonreciprocal as in the nonhermitian skin…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-04 Martí Bosch , Simon Malzard , Martina Hentschel , Henning Schomerus

We revisit the fate of the skin modes in many-body non-Hermitian fermionic systems. Contrary to the single-particle case, the many-body ground state cannot exhibit an exponential localization of all eigenstates due to the Pauli exclusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Faisal Alsallom , Loïc Herviou , Oleg V. Yazyev , Marta Brzezińska

Recently, a one-to-one correspondence between non-trivial non-Hermitian topology and directional amplification has been demonstrated, theoretically and experimentally, for the case of one complex band. Here, we extend our framework to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Clara C. Wanjura , Andreas Nunnenkamp

We study the $\mathcal{PT} $-symmetry breaking for the scattering problem in a one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian tight-binding lattice model with balanced gain and loss distributed on two adjacent sites. In the scattering process the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Baogang Zhu , Rong Lü , Shu Chen

Through the study of the Rep($D_8$) non-invertible symmetry, we show how non-invertible symmetries manifest in dynamics. By considering the effect of symmetry preserving disorder, the non-invertible symmetry is shown to give rise to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-21 Yabo Li , Aditi Mitra

Non-hermitian, $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonians, experimentally realized in optical systems, accurately model the properties of open, bosonic systems with balanced, spatially separated gain and loss. We present a family of exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 Kaustubh S. Agarwal , Rajeev K. Pathak , Yogesh N. Joglekar