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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

A fundamental axiom of quantum mechanics requires the Hamiltonians to be Hermitian which guarantees real eigen-energies and probability conservation. However, a class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with Parity-Time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry…

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Quantum information platforms enable analog quantum simulations, such as quantum annealing, offering a promising route to solving complex combinatorial optimization problems. Here, we propose a quantum information architecture based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Yana Komissarova , Mikhail V. Fistul , Ilya M. Eremin

The dynamical evolution of an open quantum system can be governed by the Lindblad equation of the density matrix. In this paper, we propose to characterize the density matrix topology by the topological invariant of its modular Hamiltonian.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Liang Mao , Fan Yang , Hui Zhai

We propose random non-Hermitian Hamiltonians to model the generic stochastic nonlinear dynamics of a quantum state in Hilbert space. Our approach features an underlying linearity in the dynamical equations, ensuring the applicability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Pei Wang

We reveal the continuous phase transition in anyonic-PT symmetric systems, contrasting with the discontinuous phase transition corresponding to the discrete (anti-) PT symmetry. The continuous phase transition originates from the continuity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Zhihang Liu , Chao Zheng

We show that optomechanical quantum systems can undergo dissipative phase transitions within the limit of small nonlinear interaction and strong external drive. In such a defined thermodynamical limit, the nonlinear interaction stabilizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Fatemeh Bibak , Uroš Delić , Markus Aspelmeyer , Borivoje Dakić

The Lindblad equation for open quantum systems is central to our understanding of coherence and entanglement in the presence of Markovian dissipation. In closed quantum systems Hilbert-space fragmentation is an effective mechanism for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Dawid Paszko , Christopher J. Turner , Dominic C. Rose , Arijeet Pal

We simulate the dissipative dynamics of a mesoscopic system of long-range interacting particles which can be mapped into non-Hermitian spin models with a $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry. We find rich $\mathcal{PT}$-phase diagrams with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-31 José A. S. Lourenço , Gerard Higgins , Chi Zhang , Markus Hennrich , Tommaso Macrì

A two-mode optical parity-time (PT) symmetric system, with gain and damping, described by a quantum quadratic Hamiltonian with additional small Kerr-like nonlinear terms, is analyzed from the point of view of nonclassical-light generation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Jan Perina , Antonin Luks , Joanna K. Kalaga , Wieslaw Leonski , Adam Miranowicz

Non-Hermitian systems based on parity-time (PT) symmetry reveal rich physics beyond the Hermitian regime. So far, realizations of PT-symmetric systems have been limited to the spatial domain. Here we theoretically and experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-12 Fangxing Zhang , Yaming Feng , Li Ge , Wenjie Wan

While gain-loss-coupled photonic platforms have achieved significant success in studying classical parity-time (PT) symmetry, they encounter challenges in demonstrating pure quantum effects due to incompatible operator transformations and…

Continuous time-translation symmetry is often spontaneously broken in open quantum systems, and the condition for their emergence has been actively investigated. However, there are only a few cases in which its condition for appearance has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Yuma Nakanishi , Ryo Hanai , Tomohiro Sasamoto

This study delves into the concept of quantum phases in open quantum systems, examining the shortcomings of existing approaches that focus on steady states of Lindbladians and highlighting their limitations in capturing key phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yuchen Guo , Ke Ding , Shuo Yang

We study a dissipative, mechanically coupled optomechanical system that accommodates gain and loss. The gain (loss) is engineered by driven a purely dispersive optomechanical cavity with a blue-detuned (red-detuned) electromagnetic field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 S. R. Mbokop Tchounda , P. Djorwé , M. V. Tchakui , S. G. Nana Engo

A topological frequency converter represents a dynamical counterpart of the integer quantum Hall effect, where a two-level system enacts a quantized time-averaged power transfer between two driving modes of incommensurate frequency. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Florian Koch , Jan Carl Budich

Topological order offers possibilities for processing quantum information which can be immune to imperfections. However, the question of its stability out of equilibrium is relevant for experiments, where coupling to an environment is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Dawid Paszko , Dominic C. Rose , Marzena H. Szymańska , Arijeet Pal

A physical requirement on the Hamiltonian operator in quantum mechanics is that it must generate real energy spectrum and unitary time evolution. While the Hamiltonians are Dirac Hermitian in conventional quantum mechanics, they observe…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Minyi Huang , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu

We study the damping dynamics of the single-particle correlation for an open system under periodic and aperiodic order, which is dominated by the Lindblad master equation. In the absence of the aperiodic order, the Liouvillian superoperator…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-21 Peng He , Yu-Guo Liu , Jian-Te Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We study the long-time dynamics of a dissipative Ising chain with varying quantum correlation. Invoking an ensemble-average formalism, and assuming spatial translation symmetry, we show that the dynamics can be described by a Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Zhenming Zhang , Haowei Li , Wei Yi