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Engineering quantum bath networks through non-Hermitian subsystem Hamiltonians has recently emerged as a promising strategy for qubit cooling, state stabilization, and fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, scaling these systems while…

Non-hermitian quantum graphs possessing real (i.e., in principle, observable) spectra are studied via their discretization. The discretized Hamiltonians are assigned, constructively, an elementary pseudometric and/or a more complicated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Miloslav Znojil

The discovery of topological phases in non-Hermitian open classical and quantum systems challenges our current understanding of topological order. Non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique features with no counterparts in topological Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Stefano Longhi

Certain non-Hermitian systems exhibit the skin effect, whereby the wavefunctions become exponentially localized at one edge of the system. Such exponential amplification of wavefunction has received significant attention due to its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Haowei Xu , Uroš Delić , Guoqing Wang , Changhao Li , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

The current applications of non-Hermitian but ${\cal PT}-$symmetric Hamiltonians $H$ cover several, mutually not too closely connected subdomains of quantum physics. Mathematically, the split between the open and closed systems can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Miloslav Znojil

Band structures of metamaterials described by a nonlinear eigenvalue problem are beyond the existing topological band theory. In this paper, we analyze non-Hermitian topology under the nonlinearity of eigenvalues. Specifically, we elucidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tsuneya Yoshida , Takuma Isobe , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The skin effect and topological edge states in non-Hermitian system have been well-studied, and the second-order skin effect and corner modes have also been proposed in non-Hermitian system recently. In this paper, we construct the nested…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yongxu Fu , Jihan Hu , Shaolong Wan

Robust boundary states epitomize how deep physics can give rise to concrete experimental signatures with technological promise. Of late, much attention has focused on two distinct mechanisms for boundary robustness - topological protection,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Deyuan Zou , Tian Chen , Wenjing He , Jiacheng Bao , Ching Hua Lee , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

We introduce the notion of pseudo-Hermiticity and show that every Hamiltonian with a real spectrum is pseudo-Hermitian. We point out that all the PT-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians studied in the literature belong to the class of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Ali Mostafazadeh

Quantum phase transitions are usually studied in terms of Hermitian Hamiltonians. However, cold-atom experiments are intrinsically non-Hermitian due to spontaneous decay. Here, we show that non-Hermitian systems exhibit quantum phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-08 Tony E. Lee , Ching-Kit Chan

Non-Hermitian optics, mostly known as 'Parity-time symmetric optics', is considered as one of the frontiers areas of research in optical sciences at present. This area is largely inspired by the so-called non-Hermitian quantum physics.…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Amarendra K. Sarma

Parallels between the notions of nonlinear pseudobosons and of an apparent non-Hermiticity of observables as shown in paper I (arXiv: 1109.0605) are demonstrated to survive the transition to the quantum models based on the use of unbounded…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Fabio Bagarello , Miloslav Znojil

The non-Hermitian skin effect, nonreciprocity-induced anomalous localization of an extensive number of eigenstates, represents a hallmark of non-Hermitian topological systems with no analogs in Hermitian systems. Despite its significance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Kohei Kawabata , Daichi Nakamura

Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians have been shown to exhibit unique signatures, including the NH skin effect and an exponential spectral sensitivity with respect to boundary conditions. Here, we investigate as to what extent these remarkable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Tommaso Micallo , Carl Lehmann , Jan Carl Budich

Non-Hermitian singularities are ubiquitous in non-conservative open systems. These singularities are often points of measure zero in the eigenspectrum of the system which make them difficult to access without careful engineering. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Qi Zhong , Mercedeh Khajavikhan , Demetrios Christodoulides , Ramy El-Ganainy

Utilizing scattering theory, we quantify the consequences of physical constraints that limit the visibility of non-Hermitian effects in passive devices. The constraints arise from the fundamental requirement that the system obeys causality,…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-15 Henning Schomerus

Non-Hermiticity gives rise to unique topological phases that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Such intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases appear even in one dimension while no topological phases appear in one-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Kohei Kawabata , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu

We show how generic non-Hermitian tight-binding lattice models can be realized in an unconditional, quantum-mechanically consistent manner by constructing an appropriate open quantum system. We focus on the quantum steady states of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Alexander McDonald , Ryo Hanai , Aashish A. Clerk

In this work, we explore interesting consequences arising from the coupling between a clean non-Hermitian chain with skin localization and a delocalized chain of the same length under various boundary conditions (BCs). We reveal that in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sen Mu , Longwen Zhou , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

Describing systems with non-Hermitian (NH) operators remains a challenge in quantum theory due to instabilities (e.g., exceptional points and decoherence) arising from interactions with the environment. We propose a framework to express the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Priyanshi Bhasin , Tanmoy Das