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I consider the longstanding issue of the hermiticity of the Dirac equation in curved spacetime. Instead of imposing hermiticity by adding ad hoc terms, I renormalize the field by a scaling function, which is related to the determinant of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Pasquale Marra

We consider a two-level system such as a two-level atom, interacting with a cavity field mode in the rotating wave approximation, when the atomic transition frequency or the field mode frequency is periodically driven in time. We show that…

Many-body localization is shown to suppress imaginary parts of complex eigenenergies for general non-Hermitian Hamiltonians having time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that a real-complex transition, which we conjecture occurs upon…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-09-04 Ryusuke Hamazaki , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda

Non-linear effects and non-Hermitian phenomena unveil additional intricate facets in topological matter physics. They can naturally intertwine to enable advanced functionalities in topoelectrical circuits and photonic structures. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-27 Vlad Simonian , Daria A. Smirnova , Maxim A. Gorlach

Quasiperiodic systems are neither randomly disordered nor translationally invariant in the absence of periodic length scales. Based on their incommensurate order, novel physical properties such as critical states and self-similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Junmo Jeon , SungBin Lee

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…

Pseudo-Hermitian operators generalize the concept of Hermiticity. This class of operators includes the quasi-Hermitian operators, which reformulate quantum theory while retaining real-valued measurement outcomes and unitary time evolution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Jacob L. Barnett

We study the many-body localization aspects of single-particle mobility edges in fermionic systems. We investigate incommensurate lattices and random disorder Anderson models. Many-body localization and quantum nonergodic properties are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-07 Xiaopeng Li , J. H. Pixley , Dong-Ling Deng , Sriram Ganeshan , S. Das Sarma

Originating from the Hamiltonian of a single qubit system, the phenomenon of the avoided level crossing is ubiquitous in multiple branches of physics, including the Landau-Zener transition in atomic, molecular and optical physics, the band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Xingrui Song , Kater Murch

We investigate the wave packet dynamics for a one-dimensional incommensurate optical lattice with a special on-site potential which exhibits the mobility edge in a compactly analytic form. We calculate the density propagation, long-time…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-10 Zhihao Xu , Hongli Huangfu , Yunbo Zhang , Shu Chen

Non-Hermiticity appears ubiquitously in various open classical and quantum systems and enriches classification of topological phases. However, the role of nonsymmorphic symmetry, crystalline symmetry accompanying fractional lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Daichi Nakamura , Yutaro Tanaka , Ken Shiozaki , Kohei Kawabata

We investigate many-body localization of interacting spinless fermions in a one-dimensional disordered and tilted lattice. The fermions undergo energy-dependent transitions from ergodic to Stark many-body localization driven by the tilted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Li Zhang , Yongguan Ke , Wenjie Liu , Chaohong Lee

We review the physics of many-body localization in models with incommensurate potentials. In particular, we consider one-dimensional quasiperiodic models with single-particle mobility edges. Although a conventional perspective suggests that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Dong-Ling Deng , Sriram Ganeshan , Xiaopeng Li , Ranjan Modak , Subroto Mukerjee , J. H. Pixley

We study quantum dynamics of a wave packet on a class of one dimensional decorated aperiodic lattices, described within a tight binding formalism. We look for the possibility of finding extended single particle states even in the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Sougata Biswas , Arunava Chakrabarti

In this paper, we investigate the driven dynamics of the localization transition in the non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'{e} model with the periodic boundary condition. Depending on the strength of the quasi-periodic potential $\lambda$, this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-02 Liang-Jun Zhai , Guang-Yao Huang , Shuai Yin

A quantum system governed by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian may exhibit zero temperature phase transitions that are driven by interactions, just as its Hermitian counterpart, raising the fundamental question how non-Hermiticity affects quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Eduard Naichuk , Jeroen van den Brink , Flavio S. Nogueira

Quantum transport in a one-dimensional (1D) quasiperiodic lattice with mobility edges is explored. We first investigate the adiabatic pumping between left and right edge modes by resorting to two edge-bulk-edge channels and demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yan Xing , Lu Qi , Xuedong Zhao , Zhe Lü , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a significant phenomenon observed in non-Hermitian systems under open boundary conditions, where the extensive bulk eigenstates tend to accumulate at the lattice edges. In this article, we investigate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-07 Rui Qi , Junpeng Cao , Xiang-Ping Jiang

We introduce a general framework for realizing $\mathcal{PT}$-like phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems without imposing explicit parity--time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. The approach is based on constructing a Hamiltonian as the…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jacob L. Barnett , Ramy El-Ganainy

Eigenstates exhibit localization at an open edge in a non-Hermitian lattice due to non-Hermitian skin effect. We here explore another interesting feature of non-Hermitian skin effect and predict quasi-stationary solutions, which are…

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