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Recently Bender, Brody, Jones and Meister found that in the quantum brachistochrone problem the passage time needed for the evolution of certain initial states into specified final states can be made arbitrarily small, when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paulo E. G. Assis , Andreas Fring

Parity-Time (PT) symmetric quantum mechanics is a complex extension of conventional Hermitian quantum mechanics in which physical observables possess a real eigenvalue spectrum. However, an experimental demonstration of the true quantum…

We present a theoretical study of quantum phases and quantum phase transitions occurring in non-Hermitian $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric superconducting qubits chains described by a transverse-field Ising spin model. A non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Grigory A. Starkov , Mikhail V. Fistoul , Ilya M. Eremin

Unitary and dissipative models of quantum dynamics are linear maps on the space of states or density matrices. This linearity encodes the superposition principle, a key feature of quantum theory. However, this principle can break down in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Orion Lee , Qian Cao , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Kater Murch

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…

The requirement for Hermiticity in quantum mechanics ensures the reality of energies, while the parity-time symmetry offers an alternative route to achieve this goal. Interestingly, in a three-level system, the parity-time symmetry-breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Y. -Y. Chen , K. Li , L. Zhang , Y. -K. Wu , J. -Y. Ma , H. -X. Yang , C. Zhang , B. -X. Qi , Z. -C. Zhou , P. -Y. Hou , Y. Xu , L. -M. Duan

The occurrence of parity-time reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry breaking is discussed in a non-Hermitian spin chain. The Hermiticity of the model is broken by the presence of an alternating, imaginary, transverse magnetic field. A full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-25 Gian Luca Giorgi

We investigate the transition probabilities for the "flavor" eigenstates in the two-level quantum system, which is described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with the parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetry. Particularly, we concentrate on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Tommy Ohlsson , Shun Zhou

Evolution time of a qubit under a Hamiltonian operation is one of the key issues in quantum control, quantum information processing and quantum computing. It has a lower bound in Hermitian system, which is limited by the coupling between…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Pengfei Lu , Teng liu , Yang Liu , Xinxin Rao , Qifeng Lao , Hao Wu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

Quantum computing's potential for exponential speedup is fundamentally limited by decoherence, a phenomenon arising from environmental interactions. Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, particularly $PT$-symmetric systems, offers a novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Duttatreya , Ipsika Mohanty , Sanjib Dey

Non-Hermiticity in quantum Hamiltonians leads to nonunitary time evolution and possibly complex energy eigenvalues, which can lead to a rich phenomenology with no Hermitian counterpart. In this work, we study the dynamics of an exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Karin Sim , Nicolò Defenu , Paolo Molignini , R. Chitra

Entanglement is one of the key feature of quantum world that has no classical counterpart. This arises due to the linear superposition principle and the tensor product structure of the Hilbert space when we deal with multiparticle systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-14 Arun Kumar Pati

To find and realize the optimal evolution between two states is significant both in theory and application. In quantum mechanics, the minimal evolution is bounded by the gap between the largest and smallest eigenvalue of the Hamiltonian. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Chao Zheng , Liang Hao , Gui Lu Long

We report an unusual buildup of the quantum coherence in a qubit subjected to non-Hermitian evolution generated by a Parity-Time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric Hamiltonian, which is reinterpreted as a Hermitian system in a higher dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Javid Naikoo , Swati Kumari , A. K. Pan , Subhashish Banerjee

We study the dynamics of correlations in a paradigmatic setup to observe $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric physics: a pair of coupled oscillators, one subject to a gain one to a loss. Starting from a coherent state, quantum correlations (QCs) are…

While quantum simulation is one of the most promising applications of modern quantum devices, accessible simulation times are fundamentally limited by finite coherence times due to omnipresent noise. Based on the ideas of relational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Sebastian Gemsheim , Felix Fritzsch

Quantum annealing processors typically control qubits in unison, attenuating quantum fluctuations uniformly until the applied system Hamiltonian is diagonal in the computational basis. This simplifies control requirements, allowing…

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry give rise to exceptional points (EPs) with exceptional properties that arise due to the coalescence of eigenvectors. Such systems have been extensively explored in the…

Non-Hermitian quantum systems showcase many distinct and intriguing features with no Hermitian counterparts. One of them is the exceptional point which marks the PT (parity and time) symmetry phase transition, where an enhanced spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 C. -Y. Liu , C. G. Feyisa , Muhammad S. Hasan , H. H. Jen

A quantum system subject to continuous measurement and post-selection evolves according to a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We show that, as one increases the rate of post-selection, this non-Hermitian Hamiltonian undergoes a spectral phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Michael J. Gullans