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We study exceptional points (EPs) of a nonhermitian Hamiltonian $\hat{H}(\lambda,\delta)$ whose parameters $\lambda \in {\mathbb C}$ and $\delta \in {\mathbb R}$. As the real control parameter $\delta$ is varied, the $k$-th EP (or $k$-th…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Milan Šindelka , Pavel Stránský , Pavel Cejnar

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) system is a popular model for exploring topological insulators and topological phases in one dimension. Recent interest in exceptional points has led to re-examination of non-Hermitian generalizations of many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 David S. Simon , Christopher R. Schwarze , Abdoulaye Ndao , Alexander V. Sergienko

General dynamic properties like controllability and simulability of spin systems, fermionic and bosonic systems are investigated in terms of symmetry. Symmetries may be due to the interaction topology or due to the structure and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Robert Zeier , T. Schulte-Herbrueggen

We derive sufficient conditions for a dynamical systems to have a set of irregular points with full topological entropy. Such conditions are verified for some nonuniformly hyperbolic systems such as positive entropy surface diffeomorphisms…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Katrin Gelfert , Maria Jose Pacifico , Diego Sanhueza

Within the abstract framework of dynamical system theory we describe a general approach to the Transient (or Evans-Searles) and Steady State (or Gallavotti-Cohen) Fluctuation Theorems of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Our main…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Vojkan Jakšić , Claude-Alain Pillet , Luc Rey-Bellet

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit interesting band structures, where novel topological phenomena arise from the existence of exceptional points at which eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. One important open question is how this would…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Marcus Stålhammar , Cristiane Morais Smith

Non-Hermitian systems and their topological singularities, such as exceptional points (EPs), lines, and surfaces, have recently attracted intense interest. The investigation of these exceptional constituents has led to fruitful…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-08 Liang Fang , Kai Bai , Cheng Guo , Tian-Rui Liu , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao

Kinetically constrained spin systems play an important role in understanding key properties of the dynamics of slowly relaxing materials, such as glasses. So far kinetic constraints have been introduced in idealised models aiming to capture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-09 B. Everest , M. Marcuzzi , J. P. Garrahan , I. Lesanovsky

Non-Hermitian systems hosting exceptional points (EPs) exhibit signal enhancement and unconventional mode dynamics. Going beyond isolated EPs, here we report on the existence of exceptional rings (ERs) in planar optical resonators with…

The exceptional point, known as the non-Hermitian degeneracy, has special topological structure, leading to various counterintuitive phenomena and novel applications, which are refreshing our cognition of quantum physics. One particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Wenquan Liu , Yang Wu , Chang-Kui Duan , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

It was recently argued that one-dimensional systems of several strongly interacting fermions of different mass undergo critical transitions between different spatial orderings when the external confinement adiabatically changes its shape.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-22 Damian Włodzyński , Tomasz Sowiński

In a strongly interacting Rydberg atom array, the dynamics are often constrained to the decoupled Hilbert subspaces, representing an intriguing paradigm for nonergodicity. By considering a variable detuning of the global Rydberg coupling,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-05 Wen-Jie Geng , Zhenming Zhang , Wei Yi

Recently, it has been found that there exist symmetry-protected topological phases of fermions, which have no realizations in non-interacting fermionic systems or bosonic models. We study the edge states of such an intrinsically interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Joseph Sullivan , Meng Cheng

Answering the question of existence of efficient quantum algorithms for NP-hard problems require deep theoretical understanding of the properties of the low-energy eigenstates and long-time coherent dynamics in quantum spin glasses. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-04 Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Sergio Boixo , Hartmut Neven , Boris Altshuler

Here I present a new discrete model of quantum mechanics for relativistic 1-electron systems, in which particle movement is described by a directed space-time graph with attached 4-spinors, but without any continuous wave functions. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Koehler

Higher-order exceptional points (EPs) govern non-Hermitian system dynamics through their enriched and sharpened spectral topology, yet the intrinsic topological fragility hinders robust experimental realization. Here, we present a scalable…

We show that transport in the presence of entropic barriers exhibits peculiar characteristics which makes it distinctly different from that occurring through energy barriers. The constrained dynamics yields a scaling regime for the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Reguera , G. Schmid , P. S. Burada , J. M. Rubí , P. Hänggi

The multipartite non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model is explored as a prototypical example of one-dimensional systems with several sublattice sites for unveiling intriguing insulating and metallic phases with no Hermitian counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Ritu Nehra , Dibyendu Roy

Non-Hermitian (NH) systems provide a fertile platform for quantum technologies, owing in part to their distinct dynamical phases. These systems can be characterized by the preservation or spontaneous breaking of parity-time reversal…

We revisit the effective theory for fluctuating spin stripes coupled to a Fermi surface, and consider the parameter regime where a spin nematic phase intervenes between the spin density wave state and the symmetric state. It is shown that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Xu Zhang , Nick Bultinck