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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…

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Amid the growing interest in non-Hermitian quantum systems, non-interacting models have received the most attention. Here, through the stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo method, we investigate non-Hermitian physics in…

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The Hatano-Nelson and the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model are paradigmatic examples of non-Hermitian systems that host non-trivial boundary phenomena. In this work, we use recently developed graph-theoretical tools to design…

Quantum systems are often classified into Hermitian and non-Hermitian ones. Extraordinary non-Hermitian phenomena, ranging from the non-Hermitian skin effect to the supersensitivity to boundary conditions, have been widely explored. Whereas…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-25 Chenwei Lv , Ren Zhang , Zhengzheng Zhai , Qi Zhou

While non-Hermitian Hamiltonians have been experimentally realized in cold atom systems, it remains an outstanding open question of how to experimentally measure their complex energy spectra in momentum space for a realistic system with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-30 Kai Li , Yong Xu

We present a large class of non-Hermitian non-PT-symmetric two-component Dirac Hamiltoninas with real energy spectra. These Hamiltonians are invariant under the combined action of "charge" conjugation (two-component transpose) and…

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While the Hamiltonians used in standard quantum mechanics are Hermitian, it is also possible to extend the theory to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. Particularly interesting are non-Hermitian Hamiltonians satisfying parity-time (PT) symmetry,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Feliks Kivelä , Shruti Dogra , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit fascinating characteristics such as non-Hermitian topological phenomena and skin effect, yet their studies are limited by the intrinsic difficulties associated with their eigenvalue problems, especially…

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We examine a non-Hermitian (NH) tight-binding system comprising of two orbitals per unit cell and their electrical circuit analogues. We distinguish the PT-symmetric and non-PT symmetric cases characterised by non-reciprocal nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Dipendu Halder , Ronny Thomale , Saurabh Basu

Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians have been shown to exhibit unique signatures, including the NH skin effect and an exponential spectral sensitivity with respect to boundary conditions. Here, we investigate as to what extent these remarkable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Tommaso Micallo , Carl Lehmann , Jan Carl Budich

Non-hermiticity presents a vast newly opened territory that harbors new physics and applications such as lasing and sensing. However, only non-Hermitian systems with real eigenenergies are stable, and great efforts have been devoted in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-25 Russell Yang , Jun Wei Tan , Tommy Tai , Jin Ming Koh , Linhu Li , Stefano Longhi , Ching Hua Lee

We investigate disorder effects on Landau levels in Dirac electron systems with the use of a non-Hermitian quasiparticle Hamiltonian formalism. This formalism reveals that spin-dependent scattering rates induce the spectrum collapse of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Taiki Matsushita , Yuki Nagai , Satoshi Fujimoto

The effect of non-Hermiticity in band topology has sparked many discussions on non-Hermitian topological physics. It has long been known that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit real energy spectra under the condition of parity-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Yang Long , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

Non-Hermitian physics, studying systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, reveals unique phenomena not present in Hermitian systems. Unlike Hermitian systems, non-Hermitian systems have complex eigenvalues, making their effects less…

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…

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We present an evaluation of some recent attempts at understanding the role of pseudo-Hermitian and PT-symmetric Hamiltonians in modeling unitary quantum systems and elaborate on a particular physical phenomenon whose discovery originated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ali Mostafazadeh

Exceptional points (EPs) are distinct characteristics of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. In this study, we focus on EPs in continuous systems rather than discrete non-Hermitian systems, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Y. T. Wang , R. Wang , X. Z. Zhang

Non-Hermitian models with real eigenenergies are highly desirable for their stability. Yet, most of the currently known ones are constrained by symmetries such as PT-symmetry, which is incompatible with realizing some of the most exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Boxue Zhang , Qingya Li , Xiao Zhang , Ching Hua Lee

The congregation of topological quantum and classical systems with the ideas of non-Hermitian physics has generated enormous research interest in the last few years. While the concepts associated to non-trivial topological aspects have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Nitish Kumar Gupta , Arun M. Jayannavar

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has emerged as a hallmark of non-Hermitian physics, with far-reaching implications for transport, topology, and sensing. While recent works have uncovered the NHSE in magnetic systems, these analyses…

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