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The effect of PT-symmetry breaking in coupled systems with balanced gain and loss has recently attracted considerable attention and has been demonstrated in various photonic, electrical and mechanical systems in the classical regime. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Julian Huber , Peter Kirton , Stefan Rotter , Peter Rabl

Trapped ions are an ideal platform to implement quantum simulation. Previously the parity-time reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry-breaking transition in the paradigmatic non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $h_{PT}=J\sigma_x-i\Gamma\sigma_z$ has been…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-29 Zhenxin Hu , Zhenhua Yu

We study spin transport in a boundary driven XXZ spin chain. Driving at the chain boundaries is modeled by two additional spin chains prepared in oppositely polarized states. Emergent behavior, both in the transient dynamics and in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Eduardo Mascarenhas , Giacomo Giudice , Vincenzo Savona

We investigate the effect of non-Hermitian Gamma interaction on the phase transitions and magnetic correlations for the transverse field Ising chain. We demonstrate that apart from the gapped ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases, there is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yu-Hong Yan , Ran Wang , Kun-Liang Zhang

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is well understood under equilibrium conditions as a consequence of the singularity of the thermodynamic limit. How a single global orientation of the order parameter dynamically emerges from an initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Jasper van Wezel

We demonstrate mesoscopic transport through quantum states in quasi-1D lattices maintaining the combination of parity and time-reversal symmetries by controlling energy gain and loss. We investigate the phase diagram of the non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Jung-Wan Ryu , Nojoon Myoung , Hee Chul Park

Parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric systems are classical, gain-loss systems whose dynamics are governed by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with exceptional-point (EP) degeneracies. The eigenvalues of a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Kaustubh S. Agarwal , Yogesh N. Joglekar

We study parity-time (PT) phase transitions in the energy spectra of ladder lattices caused by the interplay between non-orientability and non-Hermitian PT symmetry. The energy spectra show level crossings in circular ladder lattices with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Jung-Wan Ryu , Nojoon Myoung , Martina Hentschel , Hee Chul Park

The nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition, in the two dimensional kinetic Ising model in presence of a randomly varying (in time but uniform in space) magnetic field, has been studied both by Monte Carlo simulation and by solving the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Muktish Acharyya

Parity-time (PT ) symmetric systems are gain-loss systems whose dynamics are governed by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with degeneracies at exceptional-points (EPs) and has been studied in various photonic, electrical, mechanical systems, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Yuetao Chen , Shoukang Chang , Shaoyan Gao

Nonlinear parity-time (PT) symmetry in non-Hermitian wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, while attracting significant attention from both physics and engineering communities, have posed formidable theoretical and practical challenges due…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Xianglin Hao , Xiaosheng Wang , ke Yin , Sheng Ren , Chaoqiang Jiang , Jianlong Zou , Tianyu Dong , Chi Kong Tse

We report the study of spontaneous magnetization (i.e., spin-polarization) for time-reversal symmetry (TRS)-breaking superconductors with unitary pairing potentials, in the absence of external magnetic fields or Zeeman fields. Spin-singlet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-01 Lun-Hui Hu , Xuepeng Wang , T. Shang

The standard spin-transfer torque (STT)---where spin-polarized current drives dynamics of magnetization viewed as a classical vector---requires noncollinearity between electron spins carried by the current and magnetization of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-22 Priyanka Mondal , Marko D. Petrovic , Petr Plechac , Branislav K. Nikolic

Here we first present an alternative formulation of the Lewis & Riesenfeld theorem for solving the Schr\"odinger equation with nonautonomous Hermitian and pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians. We then employ this framework to characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 L. F. Alves da Silva , M. H. Y. Moussa

Spontaneous symmetry breaking has revolutionized the understanding in numerous fields of modern physics. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in a cavity quantum electrodynamics system in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yu-Kun Lu , Pai Peng , Qi-Tao Cao , Da Xu , Jan Wiersig , Qihuang Gong , Yun-Feng Xiao

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) occurs when a many-body system governed by a symmetric Hamiltonian, and prepared in a symmetry-broken state by the application of a field coupling to its order parameter $O$, retains a finite $O$ value…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-23 Filippo Caleca , Saverio Bocini , Fabio Mezzacapo , Tommaso Roscilde

We present a theoretical study of quantum phases and quantum phase transitions occurring in non-Hermitian $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric superconducting qubits chains described by a transverse-field Ising spin model. A non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Grigory A. Starkov , Mikhail V. Fistoul , Ilya M. Eremin

It has been well established that spatially extended, bistable systems that are driven by an oscillating field exhibit a nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition (DPT). The DPT occurs when the field frequency is on the order of the inverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Korniss , P. A. Rikvold , M. A. Novotny

We investigate the physics of an open two-component Dicke model, where the light field mediates non-reciprocal interactions between two spin species. We show that the model, which we dub non-reciprocal Dicke model, exhibits a discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Ezequiel I. Rodríguez Chiacchio , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Matteo Brunelli

We explore nonadiabatic quantum phase transitions in an Ising spin chain with a linearly time-dependent transverse field and two different spins per unit cell. Such a spin system passes through critical points with gapless excitations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-23 Bin Yan , Vladimir Y. Chernyak , Wojciech H. Zurek , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn