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$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems have garnered significant attention due to their unconventional properties. Despite the growing interest, there remains an ongoing debate about whether these systems outperform their Hermitian counterparts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Yaroslav Balytskyi , Yevgen Kotukh , Gennady Khalimov , Sang-Yoon Chang

This study aims to provide evidence regarding the emergence of a class of dissipative time crystals when $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry of the systems is restored in collective spin systems with Lindblad dynamics. First, we show that a standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuma Nakanishi , Tomohiro Sasamoto

The dynamics of a typical open quantum system, namely a quantum Brownian particle in a harmonic potential, is studied focussing on its non-Markovian regime. Both an analytic approach and a stochastic wave function approach are used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Maniscalco , J. Piilo , F. Intravaia , F. Petruccione , A. Messina

The information of quantum pathways can be extracted in the framework of the Hamiltonian-encoding and Observable-decoding method. For closed quantum systems, only off-diagonal elements of the Hamiltonian in the Hilbert space is required to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-19 Yaoxiong Wang , Ling Yang , Ying Wang , Shouzhi Li , Dewen Cao , Qing Gao , Feng Shuang , Fang Gao

A physical requirement on the Hamiltonian operator in quantum mechanics is that it must generate real energy spectrum and unitary time evolution. While the Hamiltonians are Dirac Hermitian in conventional quantum mechanics, they observe…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Minyi Huang , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu

In a recent paper Bender and Mannheim showed that the unequal-frequency fourth-order derivative Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator model has a realization in which the energy eigenvalues are real and bounded below, the Hilbert-space inner product is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Carl M. Bender , Philip D. Mannheim

We propose and analyze a new approach based on parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric microcavities with balanced gain and loss to enhance the performance of cavity-assisted metrology. We identify the conditions under which…

In the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems we determine the degree of quantum decoherence and classical correlations of a harmonic oscillator interacting with a thermal bath. The transition from quantum to classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Isar , W. Scheid

We reveal the continuous phase transition in anyonic-PT symmetric systems, contrasting with the discontinuous phase transition corresponding to the discrete (anti-) PT symmetry. The continuous phase transition originates from the continuity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Zhihang Liu , Chao Zheng

Despite its non-Hermitian nature, the transverse optical beam shift exhibits both real eigenvalues and non-orthogonal eigenstates. To explore this unexpected similarity to typical PT (parity-time)-symmetric systems, we first categorize the…

We demonstrate that non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems with spontaneously broken PT-symmetry and partially complex eigenvalue spectrum can be made meaningful in a quantum mechanical sense when introducing some explicit time-dependence into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Andreas Fring , Thomas Frith

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 paper is devoted to the analysis of Lindblad operators of Quantum Reset Models, describing the effective dynamics of tri-partite quantum systems subject to stochastic resets. We consider a chain of three independent subsystems, coupled…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 Géraldine Haack , Alain Joye

Non-Hermiticity in quantum Hamiltonians leads to nonunitary time evolution and possibly complex energy eigenvalues, which can lead to a rich phenomenology with no Hermitian counterpart. In this work, we study the dynamics of an exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Karin Sim , Nicolò Defenu , Paolo Molignini , R. Chitra

Determining the steady state of an open quantum system is crucial for characterizing quantum devices and studying various physical phenomena. Often, computing a single steady state is insufficient, and it is necessary to explore its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 André Melo , Gaspard Beugnot , Fabrizio Minganti

We consider an open quantum system composed of a $(1+1)$-dimensional Kitaev ring coupled with the environment via $n$ particle-loss dissipators in a \textit{sunburst} geometry. We describe the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the whole…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-03 Alessio Franchi , Francesco Tarantelli

We extend the application of the techniques developed within the framework of the pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics to study a unitary quantum system described by an imaginary PT-symmetric potential v(x) having a continuous real spectrum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ali Mostafazadeh

A general approach for transitionless quantum driving in open quantum systems is introduced. Under the assumption of adiabatic evolution for time-local master equations, we derive the generalized transitionless Lindbladian required to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Alan C. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

We discuss the systematic engineering of quasicrystals in open quantum systems where quasiperiodicity is introduced through purely dissipative processes. While the resulting short-time dynamics is governed by non-Hermitian variants of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-11 Tianyu Li , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Wei Yi

A non-${\cal{PT}}$-symmetric Hamiltonian system of a Duffing oscillator coupled to an anti-damped oscillator with a variable angular frequency is shown to admit periodic solutions. The result implies that ${\cal{PT}}$-symmetry of a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-11 Pijush K. Ghosh , Puspendu Roy