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We investigate a two-parametric family of one-dimensional non-Hermitian complex potentials with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. We find that there exist two distinct types of phase transitions, from an unbroken phase (characterized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Jinlin Fan , Feilong Wang , Ruolin Chai Zhibin Zhao , Qiongtao Xie

Exceptional points, also known as non-Hermitian degeneracies, have been observed in parity-time symmetric metasurfaces as the parity-time symmetry breaking point. However, the parity-time symmetry condition puts constraints on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Sang Hyun Park , Sung-Gyu Lee , Taewoo Ha , Sanghyup Lee , Soo-Jeong Baek , Bumki Min , Shuang Zhang , Mark Lawrence , Teun-Teun Kim

We study symmetries of open bosonic systems in the presence of laser pumping. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing these systems can be parity-time (${\cal{PT}}$) symmetric in special cases only. Systems exhibiting this symmetry are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Ewelina Lange , Grzegorz Chimczak , Anna Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk , Karol Bartkiewicz

Time is, figuratively and literally, becoming the new dimension for crystalline matter. As such, rapid recent progress on time-varying media gave rise to the notion of temporal and spatiotemporal crystals. Fundamentally rethinking the role…

We show that and how point interactions offer one of the most suitable guides towards a quantitative analysis of properties of certain specific non-Hermitian (usually called PT-symmetric) quantum-mechanical systems. A double-well model is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Miloslav Znojil , Vit Jakubsky

Time continues to be an intriguing physical property in the modern era. On the one hand, we have the Classical and Relativistic notion of time, where space and time have the same hierarchy, which is essential in describing events in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Arlans JS de Lara , Marcus W Beims

A parity-time (PT) transition is a spectral transition characteristic of non-Hermitian generators; it typically occurs at an exceptional point, where multiple eigenvectors coalesce. The concept of a PT transition has been extended to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yuma Nakanishi , Tomohiro Sasamoto

Loss compensation via inserting gain is of fundamental importance in different branches of photonics, nanoplasmonics, and metamaterial science. This effect has found an impressive implementation in the parity-time symmetric (PT-symmetric)…

Non-linear effects and non-Hermitian phenomena unveil additional intricate facets in topological matter physics. They can naturally intertwine to enable advanced functionalities in topoelectrical circuits and photonic structures. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-27 Vlad Simonian , Daria A. Smirnova , Maxim A. Gorlach

$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry, that is, a combined parity and time-reversal symmetry is a key milestone for non-Hermite systems exhibiting entirely real eigenenergy. In the present work, motivated by a recent experiment, we study $\mathcal{PT}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Ken Mochizuki , Dakyeong Kim , Hideaki Obuse

For decades, Hermiticity was considered an immutable axiom of quantum mechanics, essential for ensuring real energies and unitary evolution. This perspective has shifted radically, driven by the realization that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Federico Roccati , Federico Balducci

The interplay between band topology and material nonlinearity gives rise to a variety of novel phenomena, such as topological solitons and nonlinearity-induced topological phase transitions. However, most previous studies fall within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Junyao Wu , Rui-Chang Shen , Li Zhang , Fujia Chen , Bingbing Wang , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang , Haoran Xue

Line waves are recently discovered wave entities that are localized along two directions, and therefore can be viewed as the one-dimensional counterpart of surface waves. These waves can be supported at discontinuities of the surface…

We study optomechanical interactions in non-Hermitian photonic molecules that support two photonic states and one acoustic mode. The nonlinear steady-state solutions and their linear stability landscapes are investigated as a function of…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-19 David W. Schönleber , Alexander Eisfeld , Ramy El-Ganainy

We extend the transformation-optics paradigm to a complex spatial coordinate domain, in order to deal with electromagnetic metamaterials characterized by balanced loss and gain, giving special emphasis to parity-time (PT) symmetric…

The spatial and temporal dynamics of wave propagation are intertwined. A common manifestation of this duality emerges in the spatial and temporal decay of waves as they propagate through a lossy medium. A complete description of the…

Quantum chaos in hermitian systems concerns the sensitivity of long-time dynamical evolution to initial conditions. The skin effect discovered recently in non-hermitian systems reveals the sensitivity to the spatial boundary condition even…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-26 Tian-Gang Zhou , Yi-Neng Zhou , Pengfei Zhang , Hui Zhai

Inspired by a recently observed asymmetry in the transmission of circularly polarized light through a metamaterial, we present a non-hermitian PT-symmetric quantum model to describe the interaction of the light fields in two resonant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 Roberto Baginski B. Santos

Density-matrix topology, defined through the geometric property of the relevant modular Hamiltonian, can undergo transitions in the corresponding open-system dynamics. While symmetry considerations are crucial to ensure such a dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Wenzhi Wang , Wei Yi

Recently developed parity (P) and time-reversal (T) symmetric non-Hermitian systems govern a rich variety of new and characteristically distinct physical properties, which may or may not have a direct analog in their Hermitian counterparts.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-24 Ananya Ghatak , Tanmoy Das