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We simulate the dissipative dynamics of a mesoscopic system of long-range interacting particles which can be mapped into non-Hermitian spin models with a $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry. We find rich $\mathcal{PT}$-phase diagrams with…

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Non-Hermitian systems exhibit a distinctive type of wave propagation, due to the intricate interplay of non-Hermiticity and disorder. Here, we investigate the spreading dynamics in the archetypal non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'e model with…

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In the traditional quantum theory, one-dimensional quantum spin models possess a factorization surface where the ground states are fully separable having vanishing bipartite as well as multipartite entanglement. We report that in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Leela Ganesh Chandra Lakkaraju , Aditi Sen De

The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian describes the effective dynamics of a system coupled to a continuously measured bath, and can exhibit anti-unitary symmetries that give rise to exceptional points and broken phases with complex eigenvalues,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sejal Ahuja , Keshav Das Agarwal , Aditi Sen De

Contrary to the conventional wisdom in Hermitian systems, a continuous quantum phase transition between gapped phases is shown to occur without closing the energy gap $\Delta$ in non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems. Here, the relevant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-29 Norifumi Matsumoto , Kohei Kawabata , Yuto Ashida , Shunsuke Furukawa , Masahito Ueda

Non-equilibrium time evolution in isolated many-body quantum systems generally results in thermalization. However, the relaxation process can be very slow, and quasi-stationary non-thermal plateaux are often observed at intermediate times.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-06 Vincenzo Alba , Maurizio Fagotti

The Maryland model was introduced more than 30 years ago as an integrable model of localization by aperiodic order. Even though quite popular and rich of fascinating mathematical properties, this model has so far remained quite artificial,…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-20 Stefano Longhi

Topological insulators have been studied intensively over the last decades. Earlier research focused on Hermitian Hamiltonians, but recently, peculiar and interesting properties were found by introducing non-Hermiticity. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-29 Chao Chen Ye , W. L. Vleeshouwers , S. Heatley , V. Gritsev , C. Morais Smith

The description of states and dynamics in non-Hermitian systems is fundamentally linked to the choice of an appropriate theoretical framework -- a point of ongoing debate in the field. This work addresses this issue by proposing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Fei Wang , Guoying Liang , Zecheng Zhao , Bao-Ming Xu

Non-Hermitian systems exhibiting topological properties are attracting growing interest. In this work, we propose an algorithm for solving the ground state of a non-Hermitian system in the matrix product state (MPS) formalism based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Zhen Guo , Zheng-Tao Xu , Meng Li , Li You , Shuo Yang

Discrete time crystals (DTC) exhibit a special non-equilibrium phase of matter in periodically driven many-body systems with spontaneous breaking of time translational symmetry. The presence of decoherence generally enhances thermalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Rozhin Yousefjani , Angelo Carollo , Krzysztof Sacha , Saif Al-Kuwari , Abolfazl Bayat

Non-Hermitian quantum theories have been applied in many other areas of physics. In this note, I will briefly review recent developments in the formulation of non-Hermitian quantum field theories, highlighting features that are unique…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Peter Millington

According to the topological band theory of a Hermitian system, the different electronic phases are classified in terms of topological invariants, wherein the transition between the two phases characterized by a different topological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-24 Aruna Prasad Acharya , Aditi Chakrabarty , Deepak Kumar Sahu , Sanjoy Datta

In the present study, the interplay among interaction, topology, quasiperiodicity, and non-Hermiticity is studied. The hard-core bosons model on a one-dimensional lattice with asymmetry hoppings and quasiperiodic onsite potentials is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-17 Liang-Jun Zhai , Shuai Yin , Guang-Yao Huang

Critical transition points between symmetry-broken phases are characterized as fixed points in the renormalization group (RG) theory. We show that, following the standard Wilsonian procedure that traces out the large momentum modes, this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-18 Boran Zhou , Rui Wang , Baigeng Wang

The geometric properties of quantum states is fully encoded by the quantum geometric tensor. The real and imaginary parts of the quantum geometric tensor are the quantum metric and Berry curvature, which characterize the distance and phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jun-Feng Ren , Jing Li , Hai-Tao Ding , Dan-Wei Zhang

By revisiting the path-integral formulation of the Hubbard model, we propose a theoretical approach based on a semiclassical approximation employing an unconventional coherent-state representation. Within this framework, a subset of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-06 Yuki Yamasaki , Hidemaro Suwa , Cristian D. Batista , Shintaro Hoshino

Quantum Hall phases have recently emerged as a platform to investigate non-Hermitian topology in condensed-matter systems. This platform is particularly interesting due to its tunability, which allows to modify the properties and topology…

We develop the topological band theory for systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose energy spectra are generally complex. After generalizing the notion of gapped band structures to the non-Hermitian case, we classify "gapped"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Huitao Shen , Bo Zhen , Liang Fu

It is well known that the unitary evolution of a closed $M-$level quantum system can be generated by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $H$ with real spectrum. Its Hermiticity can be restored via an amended inner-product metric $\Theta$. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Miloslav Znojil