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This paper deals with the asymptotic behaviour of a widely used correlation characteristic in large quantum systems. The correlations are known as quantum entanglement, the characteristic is called entanglement entropy, and the system is an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Leonid Pastur , Mira Shamis

We demonstrate mesoscopic transport through quantum states in quasi-1D lattices maintaining the combination of parity and time-reversal symmetries by controlling energy gain and loss. We investigate the phase diagram of the non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Jung-Wan Ryu , Nojoon Myoung , Hee Chul Park

Through the study of the Rep($D_8$) non-invertible symmetry, we show how non-invertible symmetries manifest in dynamics. By considering the effect of symmetry preserving disorder, the non-invertible symmetry is shown to give rise to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-21 Yabo Li , Aditi Mitra

The hallmark of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases is the existence of anomalous boundary states, which can only be realized with the corresponding bulk system. In this work, we show that for every Hermitian anomalous boundary mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Jong Yeon Lee , Junyeong Ahn , Hengyun Zhou , Ashvin Vishwanath

In this four-part prospectus, we first give a brief introduction to the motivation for studying entanglement entropy and some recent development. Then follows a summary of our recent work about entanglement entropy in states with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 Wenxin Ding

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time (PT) symmetric complex potentials can exhibit a phase transition when the degree of non-Hermiticity is increased. Two eigenstates coalesce at a transition point, which is known as the exceptional point…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-07 Kun Ding , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

In this paper the entanglement of multi-qubit fermionic pseudo Hermitian coherent states (FPHCS) described by anticommutative Grassmann numbers is studied. The pseudo-Hermitian versions of the well known maximally entangled pure states such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 G. Najarbashi , M. A. Fasihi , M. Nakahara , F. Mirmasoudi , S. Mirzaei

The entanglement entropy encodes fundamental characteristics of quantum many-body systems, and is particularly subtle in non-Hermitian settings where eigenstates generically become non-orthogonal. In this work, we find that negative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Wen-Tan Xue , Ching Hua Lee

Spinless fermions on highly frustrated lattices are characterized by a lowest single-particle band which is completely flat. Concrete realizations are provided by the sawtooth chain and the kagome lattice. For these models a real-space…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-03 A. Honecker , J. Richter

We show that a class of $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians realizing the Yang-Lee edge singularity exhibits an entanglement transition in the long-time steady state evolved under the Hamiltonian. Such a transition is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-12 Shao-Kai Jian , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Zhen Bi , Xiao Chen

The non-Hermiticity of the system gives rise to a distinct knot topology in the complex eigenvalue spectrum, which has no counterpart in Hermitian systems. In contrast, the singular values of a non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonian are always real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Gaurav Hajong , Ranjan Modak , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

Conformal field theories in curved backgrounds have been used to describe inhomogeneous one-dimensional systems, such as quantum gases in trapping potentials and non-equilibrium spin chains. This approach provided, in a elegant and simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-26 Sara Murciano , Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

A maximal steady-state fermionic entanglement of a nanoelectronic system is generated in finite temperature non-Markovian environments. The fermionic entanglement dynamics is presented by connecting the exact solution of the system with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Jiong Cheng , Wen-Zhao Zhang , Yan Han , Ling Zhou

We present a coherent and consistent framework for explicit time-dependence in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. The area of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics has been growing rapidly over the past twenty years. This has been driven by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Thomas Frith

We calculate the ground state entanglement entropy between two heterogeneous parts of a free fermion chain. The two parts could be XX chains with different parameters or an XX half chain connected with a quantum Ising half chain. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-27 Yuchi He

Non-unitary evolution can give rise to novel steady states classified by their entanglement properties. In this work, we aim to understand its interplay with long-range hopping that decays with $r^{-\alpha}$ in free-fermion systems. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Pengfei Zhang , Chunxiao Liu , Shao-Kai Jian , Xiao Chen

The dynamics of Hermitian many-body quantum systems has long been a challenging subject due to the complexity induced by the particle-particle interactions. In contrast, this difficulty may be avoided in a well-designed non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 X. M. Yang , Z. Song

Topological phase transitions in free fermion systems can be characterized by closing of single-particle gap and change in topological invariants. However, in the presence of electronic interactions, topological phase transitions are more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-08 Yuan-Yao He , Han-Qing Wu , Zi Yang Meng , Zhong-Yi Lu

The interplay between topology and quantum criticality has given rise to the notion of symmetry-enriched criticality, which has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this Letter, we demonstrate that parity time (PT) symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Kuang-Hung Chou , Xue-Jia Yu , Po-Yao Chang

Entanglement between the constituents of a quantum system is an essential resource in the implementation of many quantum processes and algorithms. Indeed, universal quantum computation is possible by measuring individual qubits comprising…

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