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Quantum multicritical points (QMCPs) emerge at the junction of two or more quantum phase transitions due to the interplay of disparate fluctuations, leading to novel universality classes. While quantum critical points have been well…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-15 István A. Kovács

The characterization of quantum coherence in the context of quantum information theory and its interplay with quantum correlations is currently subject of intense study. Coherence in an Hamiltonian eigenbasis yields asymmetry, the ability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Davide Girolami , Benjamin Yadin

The main power of quantum sensors is achieved when the probe is composed of several particles. In this situation, quantum features such as entanglement contribute to enhancing the precision of quantum sensors beyond the capacity of…

Non-Hermiticity greatly expands existing physical laws beyond the Hermitian framework, revealing various novel phenomena with unique properties. Up to now, most exotic nonHermitian effects, such as exceptional points and non-Hermitian skin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-20 Weixuan Zhang , Fengxiao Di , Hao Yuan , Haiteng Wang , Xingen Zheng , Lu He1 , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in coherent Ising machines (CIMs) are studied via a spectral mapping between the one-dimensional XY spin model and a network of degenerate optical parametric oscillators (DOPOs). This exact correspondence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Jing-Yi-Ran Jin , Shuang-Quan Ma , Qing Ai

Predicting the phase diagram of interacting quantum many-body systems is a central problem in condensed matter physics and related fields. A variety of quantum many-body systems, ranging from unconventional superconductors to spin liquids,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-04 Pascal M. Vecsei , Christian Flindt , Jose L. Lado

Quantum phase transitions are sudden changes in the ground-state wavefunction of a many-body system that can occur as a control parameter such as a concentration or a field strength is varied. They are driven purely by the competition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-21 Jun Jing , Mike Guidry , Lian-Ao Wu

The efficient probing of spectral features is important for characterising and understanding the structure and dynamics of quantum materials. In this work, we establish a framework for probing the excitation spectrum of quantum many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Jinzhao Sun , Lucia Vilchez-Estevez , Vlatko Vedral , Andrew T. Boothroyd , M. S. Kim

Non-Hermitian physics has emerged as a rich field of study, with applications ranging from $PT$-symmetry breaking and skin effects to non-Hermitian topological phase transitions. Yet most studies remain restricted to small-scale or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Yukun Zhang , Wenhao He , Xiao Yuan

Phase transitions are driven by collective fluctuations of a system's constituents that emerge at a critical point. This mechanism has been extensively explored for classical and quantum systems in equilibrium, whose critical behavior is…

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

Non-Hermitian systems with aperiodic order display phase transitions that are beyond the paradigm of Hermitian physics. Unfortunately, owing to the incommensurability of the potential most of known non-Hermitian models are not integrable.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Stefano Longhi

One-dimensional non-Hermitian quasicrystals with parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetry can simultaneously exhibit localization-delocalization transition, topological phase transition, and PT-symmetry-breaking transition. This motivates…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-26 Guangjie Zhang , Bing Shao , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong , Weiwei Zhu

The phenomenon of quantum phase transition is considered in the special case in which the evolution laws remain unitary and in which the bound-state energies remain observable. The conventional Hermiticity of observables is lost at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Miloslav Znojil

The explorations of non-Hermiticity have been devoted to investigate the disorder-induced many-body localization (MBL). However, the sensitivity of the spatial boundary conditions and the interplay of the non-Hermitian skin effect with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-09 Kuldeep Suthar , Yi-Cheng Wang , Yi-Ping Huang , H. H. Jen , Jhih-Shih You

We detect the quantum phase transition of a quantum many-body system by mapping the observed results of the quantum state onto a neural network. In the present study, we utilized the simplest case of a quantum many-body system, namely a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-26 Shunta Arai , Masayuki Ohzeki , Kazuyuki Tanaka

Non-Hermitian physics has attracted considerable attention in recent years, particularly the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) for its extreme sensitivity and non-locality. While the NHSE has been physically observed in various classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Ruizhe Shen , Tianqi Chen , Bo Yang , Ching Hua Lee

Non-Hermitian systems have been at the center of intense research for over a decade, partly due to their nontrivial energy topology formed by intersecting Riemann manifolds with branch points known as exceptional points (EPs). This spectral…

Enhancing interactions in many-body quantum systems, while protecting them from environmental decoherence, is at the heart of many quantum technologies. Waveguide quantum electrodynamics is a promising platform for achieving this, as it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Aviv Karnieli , Offek Tziperman , Charles Roques-Carmes , Shanhui Fan

While non-Hermitian systems are normally constructed through incoherent coupling to a larger environment, recent works have shown that under certain conditions coherent couplings can be used to similar effect. We show that this new paradigm…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Noah Flemens , Jeffrey Moses