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Non-Hermitian skin-edge states emerge only at one edge in one-dimensional nonreciprocal chains, where all states are localized at the edge irrespective of eigenvalues. The bulk topological number is the winding number associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Motohiko Ezawa

The insulating state of matter is characterized by the excitation spectrum, but also by qualitative features of the electronic ground state. The insulating ground wavefunction in fact: (i) sustains macroscopic polarization, and (ii) is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Resta , S. Sorella

The dipole moment of any finite and neutral system, having a square-integrable wavefunction, is a well defined quantity. The same quantity is ill-defined for an extended system, whose wavefunction invariably obeys periodic (Born-von Karman)…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Raffaele Resta

During the recent developments of quantum theory it has been clarified that the observable quantities (like energy or position) may be represented by operators (with real spectra) which are manifestly non-Hermitian. The mathematical…

We consider the transformation of Hamilton operators under various sets of quantum operations acting simultaneously on all adjacent pairs of particles. We find mappings between Hamilton operators analogous to duality transformations as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Martin B Plenio

We consider finite-dimensional nonlinear systems with linear part described by a parity-time (PT-) symmetric operator. We investigate bifurcations of stationary nonlinear modes from the eigenstates of the linear operator and consider a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-01 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

We investigate the validity of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian approach in describing quantum transport in disordered tight-binding networks connected to external environments, acting as sinks. Usually, non-Hermitian terms are added, on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Giulio G. Giusteri , Francesco Mattiotti , G. Luca Celardo

In this article, the non-Hermitian characteristics of three-dimensional PT-symmetric coupled electronic resonators are theoretically analyzed. First, the concept of non-Hermitian PT symmetry is illustrated in the context of electronics…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ke Yin , Kaihao Tang , Lu Tan , Saddam Ibrahim Dawalbait Bakhat , Tianyu Dong , Huacheng Zhu , Yang Yang

In the paper, we study the non-Hermitian system under dissipation and give the effective 2*2 Hamiltonian in the k-space by reducing the N*N Hamiltonian in the real space for them. It is discovered that the energy band shows an imaginary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Qian Du , Xin-Ran Ma , Su-Peng Kou

A review is given on the foundations and applications of non-Hermitian classical and quantum physics. First, key theorems and central concepts in non-Hermitian linear algebra, including Jordan normal form, biorthogonality, exceptional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Yuto Ashida , Zongping Gong , Masahito Ueda

Excited bound states are often understood within scattering based theories as resulting from the collision of a particle on a target via a short-range potential. We show that the resulting formalism is non-Hermitian and describe the Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 A. Matzkin

We conduct a numerical study of wave localization in disordered three-dimensional non-Hermitian systems featuring exceptional points. The energy spectrum of a disordered non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, exhibiting both parity-time and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-30 C. Wang , X. R. Wang

Recently, topological quantum states of non-Hermitian systems, exhibiting rich new exotic states, have attracted great attention in condensed-matter physics. As for the demonstration, most of non-Hermitian topological phenomena previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Huaiqiang Wang , Jiawei Ruan , Haijun Zhang

There have been considerable efforts devoted to the study of topological phases in certain non-Hermitian systems that possess real eigenfrequencies in the presence of gain and loss. However, it is challenging to experimentally realize such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Shuo Liu , Shaojie Ma , Cheng Yang , Lei Zhang , Wenlong Gao , Yuan Jiang Xiang , Tie Jun Cui , Shuang Zhang

The Pauli equations describing electron (hole) dynamics in 2D Dirac-like intrinsic semiconductors in external (impurity) scalar potential and for inhomogeneous lattice distortions are obtained within second quantization approach. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 E. L. Rumyantsev , P. E. Kunavin

Evolutions under non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with unbroken $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry can be considered unitary under appropriate choices of inner products, facilitated by the so-called metric operator. While it is understood that the choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Himanshu Badhani , C. M. Chandrashekar

Starting with a finite $k$-mesh version of a well-known equation by Blount, we show how various definitions proposed for the polarization of long chains are related. Expressions used for infinite periodic chains in the 'modern theory of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Springborg , Bernard Kirtman , Yi Dong

There has been much recent work on the spectrum of the random non-hermitean Hamiltonian which models the physics of vortex line pinning in superconductors. This note is loosely based on the talk I gave at the conference "New Directions in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Zee

The explicit expression for the photon polarization operator in the presence of a single electron is found in the $in$-$in$ formalism in the one-loop approximation out of the photon mass-shell. This polarization operator describes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 I. M. Akimov , P. O. Kazinski , A. A. Sokolov

We investigate the zero-temperature quantum phases of a quasi-one-dimensional zigzag chain of dipoles that are polarized in a plane by an external electric field. Since the Hamiltonian contains nearest-neighbor (NN) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-11 Niraj R. Ghimire , Susanne F. Yelin