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Synchronization is a ubiquitous scientific phenomenon in various physical systems. Here, we examine the feasibility of generating multistable and dynamically tunable synchronization by using the technique of Floquet engineering. Applying a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Motoki Asano , Hajime Okamoto , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

We propose a mechanism for realization of exact control of parity-time (PT) symmetry by using a periodically modulated nonlinear optical coupler with balanced gain and loss. It is shown that for certain appropriately chosen values of the…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-26 Baiyuan Yang , Xiaobing Luo , QiangLin Hu , XiaoGuang Yu

We show the emergence of Floquet time crystal (FTC) phases in the Floquet dynamics of periodically driven $p$-spin models, which describe a collection of spin-1/2 particles with all-to-all $p$-body interactions. Given the mean-field nature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias , Karthik Chinni , Pablo M. Poggi

Unitary matrices arise in many ways in physics, in particular as a time evolution operator. For a periodically driven system one frequently wishes to compute a Floquet Hamilonian that should be a Hermitian operator $H$ such that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Terry Loring , Fredy Vides

Exceptional points (EPs) in anti-parity-time (APT)-symmetric systems have attracted significant interest. While linear APT-symmetric systems exhibit structural similarities with nonlinear dissipative systems, such as mutually…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Takahiro Uemura , Kenta Takata , Masaya Notomi

Recently developed parity ($\mathcal{P}$) and time-reversal ($\mathcal{T}$) symmetric non-Hermitian quantum theory is envisioned to have far-reaching implications in basic science and applications. It is known that the $PT$-inner product is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Ananya Ghatak , Tanmoy Das

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

Quantum (Poincar\'e) recurrence theorem are known for closed quantum (classical) systems. Can recurrence happen in open systems? We provide the recurrence theorem for open quantum systems via non-Hermitian (NH) description. We find that PT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Zhihang Liu , Chao Zheng

This work studies a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian spin--boson model, consisting of a non-Hermitian two-level system coupled to a continuous bosonic bath. The static properties of the system are analyzed through a projection method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Yong-Xin Zhang , Qing-Hu Chen

The combination of gain and loss in optical systems that respect parity-time (PT)-symmetry has pointed recently to a variety of novel optical phenomena and possibilities. Many of them can be realized by combining the PT-symmetry concepts…

Parity-time ($\cal PT$) symmetric lasers have attracted considerable attention lately due to their promising applications and intriguing properties, such as free spectral range doubling and single-mode lasing. In this work we discuss…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-18 Li Ge , Ramy El-Ganainy

We study the coupled even number of microcavities with the balanced gain and loss between any pair of their neighboring components. The effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for such structure has the cyclic permutation-time symmetry with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Bing He , Liu Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Min Xiao

By the general theory of $PT$-symmetric quantum systems, their energy levels are either real or occur in complex-conjugate pairs, which implies that the secular equation must be real. However, for periodic potentials it is by no means clear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 H. F. Jones

Over the past two decades, open systems that are described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian have become a subject of intense research. These systems encompass classical wave systems with balanced gain and loss, semiclassical models with mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Frantisek Ruzicka , Kaustubh S. Agarwal , Yogesh N. Joglekar

We study a two-species mixture of exciton-polaritons with self- and cross-interaction nonlinearities in a double well structure, in the presence of relaxation and continuous pumping. We identify the conditions that render the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 P. A. Kalozoumis , G. M. Nikolopoulos , D. Petrosyan

The explorations of the quantum-inspired symmetries in optical and photonic systems have witnessed immense research interests both fundamentally and technologically in a wide range of subjects of physics and engineering. One of the…

We propose a dynamical approach to quantum memories using a synchronous oscillator-cavity model, in which the coupling is shaped in time to provide the optimum interface to a symmetric input pulse. This overcomes the known difficulties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Q. Y. He , M. D. Reid , P. D. Drummond

A coupled two-mode system with balanced gain and loss is a paradigmatic example of an open quantum system that can exhibit real spectra despite being described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We utilize a degenerate parametric amplifier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Chandrashekhar Gaikwad , Daria Kowsari , Weijian Chen , Kater W. Murch

We discuss several classes of integrable Floquet systems, i.e. systems which do not exhibit chaotic behavior even under a time dependent perturbation. The first class is associated with finite-dimensional Lie groups and infinite-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-20 Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

As a paradigmatic model of open quantum system, the spin-boson model is widely used in theoretical and experimental investigations. Beyond the weak coupling limit, the spin dynamics can be described by a time-nonlocal generalized master…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-10 L. Magazzù , S. Denisov , P. Hänggi