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A method of Parity-Time (PT)-symmetry analysis is introduced to study the high dimensional, complicated parameter space of drift wave instabilities. We show that spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking leads to the Ion Temperature Gradient (ITG)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Hong Qin , Yichen Fu , Alexander S. Glasser , Asher Yahalom

We show that the dynamics, in particular the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability, of an inviscid fluid with velocity shear admits Parity-Time (PT) symmetry, which provides a physical explanation to the well-known observation that the spectrum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Yichen Fu , Hong Qin

We consider a periodic waveguide array whose unit cell consists of a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quadrimer with two competing loss/gain parameter pairs which lead to qualitatively different symmetry-broken phases. It is shown that the…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 P. A. Kalozoumis , C. V. Morfonios , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

The role of spontaneous emission in the interaction between a two-level atom and a pumped micro-cavity in the strong coupling regime is discussed in this paper. Especially, using a quantum Monte-Carlo simulation, we investigate atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhen Fang , Rui Guo , Xiaoji Zhou , Xuzong Chen

In non-Hermitian scattering problems the behavior of the transmission probability is very different from its Hermitian counterpart; it can exceed unity or even be divergent, since the non-Hermiticity can add or remove the probability to and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Ken Shobe , Keiichi Kuramoto , Ken-Ichiro Imura , Naomichi Hatano

PT-symmetric quantum mechanics began with a study of the Hamiltonian $H=p^2+x^2(ix)^\varepsilon$. When $\varepsilon\geq0$, the eigenvalues of this non-Hermitian Hamiltonian are discrete, real, and positive. This portion of parameter space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 Carl M. Bender , Nima Hassanpour , Daniel W. Hook , S. P. Klevansky , Christoph Sünderhauf , Zichao Wen

Non-Hermitian optical systems with parity-time (PT) symmetry have recently revealed many intriguing prospects that outperform conservative structures. The prevous works are mostly rooted in complex arrangements with controlled gain-loss…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-13 Yue Jiang , Yefeng Mei , Ying Zuo , Yanhua Zhai , Jensen Li , Jianming Wen , Shengwang Du

Depending on the coupling to the environment, symmetries of open quantum systems manifest in two distinct forms, the strong and the weak. We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking among phases with strong symmetry, weak symmetry, and no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ding Gu , Zijian Wang , Zhong Wang

We investigate the onset of parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian tight-binding lattices with spatially-extended loss/gain regions in presence of an advective term. Similarly to the instability properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stefano Longhi

Topological edge states appear at the interface of topologically distinct two Hermitian insulators. We study the extension of this idea to non-Hermitian systems. We consider PT symmetric and topologically distinct non-Hermitian insulators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 C. Yuce

Closed expressions are derived for the pseudo-norm, norm and orthogonality relations for arbitrary bound states of the PT symmetric and the Hermitian Scarf II potential for the first time. The pseudo-norm is found to have indefinite sign in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Levai , F. Cannata , A. Ventura

In multiparticle quantum interference, bosons show rather generally the tendency to bunch together, while fermions can not. This behavior, which is rooted in the different statistics of the particles, results in a higher coincidence rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Stefano Longhi

Parity-time (PT) symmetry and anti-PT symmetry have attracted extensive interest for their non-Hermitian spectral properties, particularly the emergence of purely real and imaginary eigenvalues in their symmetry-unbroken regime,…

We study the coupled even number of microcavities with the balanced gain and loss between any pair of their neighboring components. The effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for such structure has the cyclic permutation-time symmetry with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Bing He , Liu Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Min Xiao

The interplay between topology and quantum criticality has given rise to the notion of symmetry-enriched criticality, which has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this Letter, we demonstrate that parity time (PT) symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Kuang-Hung Chou , Xue-Jia Yu , Po-Yao Chang

We consider the role of degeneracy in Parity-Time (PT) symmetry breaking for non-hermitian wave equations beyond one dimension. We show that if the spectrum is degenerate in the absence of T-breaking, and T is broken in a generic manner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Li Ge , A. Douglas Stone

Two-dimensional topological insulators protected by nonlocal symmetries or with fragile topology usually do not admit robust in-gap edge modes due to the incompatibility between the symmetry and the boundary. Here, we show that in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Kang Yang , Fei Song , Piet W. Brouwer

Advances in topological photonics and non-Hermitian optics have drastically changed our perception on how interdisciplinary concepts may empower unprecedented applications. Bridging the two areas could uncover the reciprocity between…

We design and explore PT-symmetric behavior of a hybrid non-Hermitian cavity magnomechanics consisting of a ferromagnetic YIG sphere driven by external magnetic field. Non-Hermicity is engineered by using a traveling field directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Yu Chengyong , Kashif Ammar Yasir

The broken and unbroken phases of PT and supersymmetry in optical systems are explored for a complex refractive index profile in the form of a Scarf potential, under the framework of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The transition from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Adipta Pal , Subhrajit Modak , Aradhya Shukla , Prasanta K. Panigrahi