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We investigate the interplay between the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), parity-time (PT) symmetry, and topological defect states in a finite non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain. In the conventional NHSE regime, non-reciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 S. M. Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Md Saddam Hossain Razo , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We consider a four-fermion theory as a simple model of dynamical symmetry breaking in flat space with non-trivial topology, motivated from recent studies in similar considerations in curved space. The phase structure is investigated, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 Ken-ichi Ishikawa , Tomohiro Inagaki , Kenji Fukazawa , Kezuhiro Yamamoto

Understanding how local potentials affect system eigenmodes is crucial for experimental studies of nontrivial bulk topology. Recent studies have discovered many exotic and highly non-trivial topological states in non-Hermitian systems. As…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-13 Ya-Jie Wu , Junpeng Hou

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

In a quantum many-body system coupled to the environment, its steady state can exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking when a control parameter exceeds a critical value. In this study, we consider spontaneous symmetry breaking in non-steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Taiki Haga

We show that the spontaneous symmetry breaking can be defined also for finite systems based on the properly defined jump probability between the ground states in the 2d and 3d Ising models on a square and a cubic lattice respectively. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-25 Fotis K. Diakonos , Yiannis F. Contoyiannis , Stelios M. Potirakis

We consider the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum field theory on the noncommutative spacetime with angular twist and construct its pseudo-Hermitian interpretation. We explore the differences between internal and spatial parities in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-25 Oleg O. Novikov

We study a new class of chaotic systems with dynamical localization, where gain or loss mechanisms break the Hermiticity, while allowing for parity-time (PT) symmetry. For a value \gamma_PT of the gain or loss parameter the spectrum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-02-22 Carl T. West , Tsampikos Kottos , Tomaz Prosen

Since the spatially extended periodic parity-time (PT) symmetric potential can possess certain unique properties compared to a single PT cell (with only a pair of coupled gain-loss components), various schemes have been proposed to realize…

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

We study time-reversal symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian fluctuating field theories with conserved dynamics, comprising the mesoscopic descriptions of a wide range of nonequilibrium phenomena. They exhibit continuous parity-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-08 Thomas Suchanek , Klaus Kroy , Sarah A. M. Loos

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, and particularly parity-time (PT) and anti-PT symmetric Hamiltonians, play an important role in many branches of physics, from quantum mechanics to optical systems and acoustics. Both the PT and anti-PT…

We present a systematic analysis of the stationary regimes of nonlinear parity-time(PT) symmetric laser composed of two coupled fiber cavities. We find that power-dependent nonlinear phase shifters broaden regions of existence of both…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-04 Sergey V. Suchkov , Dmitry V. Churkin , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

We study optomechanical interactions in non-Hermitian photonic molecules that support two photonic states and one acoustic mode. The nonlinear steady-state solutions and their linear stability landscapes are investigated as a function of…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-19 David W. Schönleber , Alexander Eisfeld , Ramy El-Ganainy

Non-Hermitian dynamics in open systems can give rise to a variety of fascinating non-equilibrium phenomena, ranging from symmetry-breaking transitions to directional energy flow. Parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking determines the occurrence…

We discuss the phase diagram and properties of global vortices in the non-Hermitian parity-time-symmetric relativistic model possessing two interacting scalar complex fields. The phase diagram contains stable PT-symmetric regions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-01 A. M. Begun , M. N. Chernodub , A. V. Molochkov

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) occurs when modes of asymmetric profile appear in a symmetric, double-well potential, due to the nonlinearity of the potential exceeding a critical value. In this study, we examine SSB in a periodic…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-21 Ruihan Peng , Qidong Fu , Yejia Chen , Weidong Luo , Changming Huang , Fangwei Ye

Kinematical and dynamical mechanisms leading to the spontaneous breaking of space-time symmetries are described. The symmetries affected are space and time translations, space rotations, scale and conformal transformations. Applications are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Eliezer Rabinovici

We present an example where Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking may effect not only the behavior of the entanglement at Quantum Phase Transitions, but also the origin of the non-analyticity. In particular, in the XXZ model, we study the non…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 L. Justino , Thiago R. de Oliveira

Parity-time-reversal symmetry ($\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry), a symmetry for the combined operations of space inversion ($\mathcal{P}$) and time reversal ($\mathcal{T}$), is a fundamental concept of physics and characterizes the functionality of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-21 Hikaru Watanabe , Youichi Yanase