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Non-Hermitian topological phases have gained immense attention due to their potential to unlock novel features beyond Hermitian bounds. PT-symmetric (Parity Time-reversal symmetric) non-Hermitian models have been studied extensively over…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Chakradhar Rangi , Ka-Ming Tam , Juana Moreno

Understanding the interplay between quantum coherence and non-Hermitian features would enable the devising of quantum technologies based on dissipative systems. In turn, quantum coherence can be characterized in terms of the language of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Diego Paiva Pires , Tommaso Macrì

Knot theory provides a powerful tool for the understanding of topological matters in biology, chemistry, and physics. Here knot theory is introduced to describe topological phases in the quantum spin system. Exactly solvable models with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-24 X. M. Yang , L. Jin , Z. Song

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with complex eigenenergies are useful tools for describing the dynamics of open quantum systems. In particular, parity and time (PT) symmetric Hamiltonians have generated interest due to the emergence of…

We report on the occurrence of knotted metallic band structures as stable topological phases in non-Hermitian (NH) systems. These knotted NH metals are characterized by open Fermi surfaces, known in mathematics as Seifert surfaces, that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Johan Carlström , Marcus Stålhammar , Jan Carl Budich , Emil J. Bergholtz

Developing superior quantum sensing strategies ranging from ultra-high precision measurement to complex structural analysis is at the heart of quantum technologies. While strategies using quantum resources, such as entanglement among…

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

Non-Hermitian systems generically have complex energies, which may host topological structures, such as links or knots. While there has been great progress in experimentally engineering non-Hermitian models in quantum simulators, it remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Mingming Cao , Kai Li , Wending Zhao , Weixuan Guo , Bingxiag Qi , Xiuying Chang , Zichao Zhou , Yong Xu , Luming Duan

Cross-correlation heterodyne detectors exhibit the potential for suppression of the detection quantum noise below shot noise without use of optical squeezing for capturing weak optical signals in low frequency bands. To understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Sheng Feng , Kaikai Wu

In distributed quantum sensing the correlations between multiple modes, typically of a photonic system, are utilized to enhance the measurement precision of an unknown parameter. In this work we investigate the metrological potential of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jose Carlos Pelayo , Karol Gietka , Thomas Busch

We consider quantum systems with a Hamiltonian containing a weak perturbation i.e. $\boldsymbol{H=H_0} + \boldsymbol{\lambda} \cdot \boldsymbol{\tilde{H}}$, $\boldsymbol{\lambda}= \{\lambda_1, \lambda_2,...\}$, $\boldsymbol{\tilde{H}}$ $=…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Sidali Mohammdi , Matteo Bina , Abdelhakim Gharbi , Matteo G. A. Paris

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the properties of topological models, leading to exotic features such as the non-Hermitian skin effects and non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence that have no counterparts in Hermitian settings. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Kunkun Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

We report a novel mechanism of boundary-sensitive PT symmetry breaking in one-dimensional Floquet systems. By designing a time-periodic driving protocol, we realize a Floquet Hamiltonian that is Hermitian under periodic boundary conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Bo Li , He-Ran Wang , Fei Song

Quantum metrology takes advantage of quantum correlations to enhance the sensitivity of sensors and measurement techniques beyond their fundamental classical limit given by the shot noise limit. The use of both temporal and spatial…

There has been much recent interest and progress on topological structures of the non-Hermitian Bloch bands. Here, we study the topological structures of non-Bloch bands of non-Hermitian multiband quantum systems under open boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Yongxu Fu , Yi Zhang

Non-Bloch topological invariants preserve the bulk-boundary correspondence in non-Hermitian topological systems, and are a key concept in the contemporary study of non-Hermitian topology. Here we report the dynamic detection of non-Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Kunkun Wang , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Yiwen Han , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Phase measurement constitutes a key task in many fields of science, both in the classical and quantum regime. The higher precision of such measurement offers significant advances, and can also be utilised to achieve finer estimates for…

The effect of non-Hermiticity in band topology has sparked many discussions on non-Hermitian topological physics. It has long been known that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit real energy spectra under the condition of parity-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Yang Long , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

We consider a non-Hermitian (NH) analog of a second-order topological insulator, protected by chiral symmetry, in the presence of next-nearest neighbor hopping elements to theoretically investigate the interplay beyond the first nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Arijit Saha , Tanay Nag

We analyze quantum metrological protocols, where the sensing system is linearly coupled to a bosonic environment, by performing a Markovian embedding of the problem based on pseudomode formalism. This allows us to effectively model the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Arpan Das , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański