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In this work we present a general formalism to treat non-Hermitian and noncommutative Hamiltonians. This is done employing the phase-space formalism of quantum mechanics, which allows to write a set of robust maps connecting the Hamitonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Jonas F. G. Santos , Fabricio. S. Luiz , Oscar. S. Duarte , Miled. H. Y. Moussa

Despite acute interest in the dynamics of non-Hermitian systems, there is a lack of consensus in the mathematical formulation of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics in the community. Different methodologies are used in the literature to study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Karin Sim , Nicolò Defenu , Paolo Molignini , R. Chitra

In recent decades, an important shift has taken place with the growing role of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. What makes this framework remarkable is that the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonians involved can still be real, just as in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Maamache Mustapha

We consider conditions for the existence of boundary modes in non-Hermitian systems with edges of arbitrary co-dimension. Through a universal formulation of formation criteria for boundary modes in terms of local Green functions, we outline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Dan S. Borgnia , Alex Jura Kruchkov , Robert-Jan Slager

Many features of Bloch oscillations in one-dimensional quantum lattices with a static force can be described by quasiclassical considerations for example by means of the acceleration theorem, at least for Hermitian systems. Here the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 E M Graefe , H J Korsch , A Rush

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 point out that two of the most important theorems of Quantum Mechanics, the Ehrenfest theorem and the Hellmann-Feynman theorem, lack in their standard form important information: there are cases where non-Hermitian boundary contributions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Georgios Konstantinou , Kyriakos Kyriakou , Konstantinos Moulopoulos

Thermodynamics is the phenomenological theory of heat and work. Here we analyze to what extent quantum thermodynamic relations are immune to the underlying mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics. As a main result, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Bartłomiej Gardas , Sebastian Deffner , Avadh Saxena

Non-Hermitian boundaries commonly take place in many open quantum systems locally coupled to a surrounding environment. Here, we reveal a type of non-Hermitian effect induced by non-Hermitian boundaries, the non-Hermitian proximity effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-04 Deguang Wu , Jiasong Chen , Wei Su , Rui Wang , Baigeng Wang , D. Y. Xing

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

We consider non-Hermitian dynamics of a quantum particle hopping on a one-dimensional tight-binding lattice made of $N$ sites with asymmetric hopping rates induced by a time-periodic oscillating imaginary gauge field. A deeply different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Stefano Longhi

The role of nonlinearity on topology has been investigated extensively in Hermitian systems, while nonlinearity has only been used as a tuning knob in a PT symmetric non-Hermitian system. Here, in our work, we show that nonlinearity plays a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-26 Kai Bai , Meng Xiao

We unveil an unexpected non-Hermitian phenomenon, dubbed edge burst, in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics. Specifically, in a class of non-Hermitian quantum walk in periodic lattices with open boundary condition, an exceptionally large portion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Wen-Tan Xue , Yu-Min Hu , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

We develop relativistic wave equations in the framework of the new non-hermitian ${\cal PT}$ quantum mechanics. The familiar Hermitian Dirac equation emerges as an exact result of imposing the Dirac algebra, the criteria of ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Harsh Mathur

Non-Hermitian singularities are ubiquitous in non-conservative open systems. These singularities are often points of measure zero in the eigenspectrum of the system which make them difficult to access without careful engineering. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Qi Zhong , Mercedeh Khajavikhan , Demetrios Christodoulides , Ramy El-Ganainy

The description of states and dynamics in non-Hermitian systems is fundamentally linked to the choice of an appropriate theoretical framework -- a point of ongoing debate in the field. This work addresses this issue by proposing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Fei Wang , Guoying Liang , Zecheng Zhao , Bao-Ming Xu

We consider the interaction between the Hermitian world, represented by a real delta-function potential $-\alpha\delta(x)$, and the non-Hermitian world, represented by a PT-symmetric pair of delta functions with imaginary coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-23 H. F. Jones

The non-Hermitian Schr\"odinger equation is re-expressed generally in the form of Hamilton's canonical equation without any approximation. Its quantization called non-Hermitian quantum field theory is discussed. By virtue of the canonical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Qi Zhang

This article reviews recent developments in the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), particularly on its rich interplay with topology. The review starts off with a pedagogical introduction on the modified bulk-boundary correspondence, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Rijia Lin , Tommy Tai , Mengjie Yang , Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee

Present Hermitian Quantum Theory, i.e. Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, is revised and replaced by a consistent non-Hermitian formalism called non-Hermitian Quantum Theory (NHQT) or (Anti)Causal Quantum Theory ((A)CQT) after…

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