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Spectral stability of multi-hump vector solitons in the Hamiltonian system of coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equations is investigated both analytically and numerically. Using the closure theorem for the negative index of the…

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Manifestly non-Hermitian quantum graphs with real spectra are introduced and shown tractable as a new class of phenomenological models with several appealing descriptive properties. For illustrative purposes, just equilateral star-graphs…

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In quantum mechanics (formulated, say, in Schr\"{o}dinger picture) only the knowledge of a complete set of observables $\Lambda_j$ enables us to declare the related physical inner product (i.e., the Hilbert-space metric $\Theta$ such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Miloslav Znojil

PT-symmetric systems can have a real spectrum even when their Hamiltonian is non-hermitian, but develop a complex spectrum when the degree of non-hermiticity increases. Here we utilize random-matrix theory to show that this spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Henning Schomerus

Exceptional points of a class of non-hermitian Hamilton operators $\hat H$ of the form $\hat H=\hat H_0+i\hat H_1$ are studied, where $\hat H_0$ and $\hat H_1$ are hermitian operators. Finite dimensional Hilbert spaces are considered. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Willi-Hans Steeb , Yorick Hardy

Understanding the linear response of any system is the first step towards analyzing its linear and nonlinear dynamics, stability properties, as well as its behavior in the presence of noise. In non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems, calculating…

Recent experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of exploiting spectral singularities in open quantum and wave systems, so-called exceptional points, for sensors with strongly enhanced sensitivity. Here, we study theoretically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Jan Wiersig

In conventional Schr\"{o}dinger representation the unitarity of the evolution of bound states is guaranteed by the Hermiticity of the Hamiltonian. A non-unitary isospectral simplification of the Hamiltonian, $\mathfrak{h} \to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Miloslav Znojil

Non-Hermitian topological systems simultaneously posses two antagonistic features: ultra sensitivity due to exceptional points and robustness of topological zero energy modes, and it is unclear which one prevails under different…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-08 I. Komis , D. Kaltsas , S. Xia , H. Buljan , Z. Chen , K. G. Makris

We study the problem of robust performance of quantum systems under structured uncertainties. A specific feature of closed (Hamiltonian) quantum systems is that their poles lie on the imaginary axis and that neither a coherent controller…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 S G Schirmer , F C Langbein , C A Weidner , E A Jonckheere

Exceptional points are special degeneracy points in parameter space that can arise in (effective) non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing open quantum and wave systems. At an n-th order exceptional point, n eigenvalues and the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Daniel Grom , Julius Kullig , Malte Röntgen , Jan Wiersig

We develop a systematic framework for determining the nature of exceptional points of $n^{\rm th}$ order (EP$_n$s) in non-Hermitian (NH) systems, represented by complex square matrices. By expressing symmetry-preserving perturbations in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Ipsita Mandal

In the past few decades, many works have been devoted to the study of exceptional points (EPs), i.e., exotic degeneracies of non-Hermitian systems. The usual approach in those studies involves the introduction of a phenomenological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Adam Miranowicz , Fabrizio Minganti , Franco Nori

Symmetry underpins our understanding of physical law. Open systems, those in contact with their environment, can provide a platform to explore parity-time symmetry. While classical parity-time symmetric systems have received a lot of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 C. A. Downing , V. A. Saroka

Photonic systems with exceptional points, where eigenvalues and corresponding eigenstates coalesce, have attracted interest due to their topological features and enhanced sensitivity to external perturbations. Non-Hermitian mode-coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 B. M. Rodriguez-Lara , H. Ghaemi-Dizicheh , S. Dehdashti , A. Hanke , A. Touhami , J. Nötzel

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with complex eigenenergies are useful tools for describing the dynamics of open quantum systems. In particular, parity and time (PT) symmetric Hamiltonians have generated interest due to the emergence of…

The Exceptional Points (EPs) of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians (NHHs) are spectral degeneracies associated with coalescing eigenvalues and eigenvectors which are associated with remarkable dynamical properties. These EPs can be generated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Fabrizio Minganti , Dolf Huybrechts , Cyril Elouard , Franco Nori , Ievgen I. Arkhipov

At the exceptional point where two eigenstates coalesce in open quantum systems, the usual diagonalization scheme breaks down and the Hamiltonian can only be reduced to Jordan block form. Most of the studies on the exceptional point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Kazuki Kanki , Savannah Garmon , Satoshi Tanaka , Tomio Petrosky

We consider a classically chaotic system that is described by an Hamiltonian $H(Q,P;x)$ where x is a constant parameter. Our main interest is in the case of a gas-particle inside a cavity, where $x$ controls a deformation of the boundary or…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Doron Cohen , Eric J. Heller

The physics of systems that cannot be described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian, has been attracting a great deal of attention in recent years, motivated by their nontrivial responses and by a plethora of applications for sensing, lasing, energy…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-16 Alex Krasnok , Nikita Nefedkin , Andrea Alu