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Thermal density matrices can be described by a pure quantum state within the thermofield formalism. Here we show how to construct a class of Hamiltonians realizing a thermofield state as their ground state. These Hamiltonians are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-06 Adrian E. Feiguin , Israel Klich

A series of recent papers ``Faster than Hermitian Quantum Mechanics'' and related articles made a point of the possibility of a non-Hermitian, but PT-symmetric, operator to play the role of a Hamiltonian. In particular, they show that with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-15 Mark J. Everitt , Shaaban Khalil , Alexandre M. Zagoskin

The density of states of a self-adjoint operator generalizes the eigenvalue distribution of a Hermitian matrix. We prove convergence of the density of states for a tight-binding model with a slowly-varying periodic potential to the density…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Peter Hofhansel , Alexander B. Watson

Density matrix exponentiation (DME) is a general procedure that converts an unknown quantum state into the Hamiltonian evolution. This enables state-dependent operations and can reveal nontrivial properties of the state, among other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Kaito Wada , Jumpei Kato , Hiroyuki Harada , Naoki Yamamoto

This paper introduces and analyzes a preconditioned modified of the Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting (PMHSS). The large sparse continuous Sylvester equations are solved by PMHSS iterative algorithm based on nonHermitian, complex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Yuye Feng , Qingbiao Wu

In quantum mechanics, predictions are made by way of calculating expectation values of observables, which take the form of Hermitian operators. It is far less common to exploit non-Hermitian operators to perform measurements. Here, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Eliot Bolduc , Genevieve Gariepy , Jonathan Leach

Representability conditions on the one- and two-particle density matrix for fermion systems are formulated by means of Grassmann integrals. A positivity condition for a certain kind of Grassmann integral is established which, in turn,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Volker Bach , Hans Konrad Knörr , Edmund Menge

For a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian H possessing a real spectrum, we introduce a canonical orthonormal basis in which a previously introduced unitary mapping of H to a Hermitian Hamiltonian h takes a simple form. We use this basis to construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Ali Mostafazadeh , Ahmet Batal

The negativity Hamiltonian, defined as the logarithm of a partially transposed density matrix, provides an operatorial characterisation of mixed-state entanglement. However, so far, it has only been studied for the mixed-state density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-17 Federico Rottoli , Sara Murciano , Pasquale Calabrese

Embedded random matrix ensembles are generic models for describing statistical properties of finite isolated interacting quantum many-particle systems. For the simplest spinless systems, with say $m$ particles in $N$ single particle states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 V. K. B. Kota , Manan Vyas

We consider finite state space stationary hidden Markov models (HMMs) in the situation where the number of hidden states is unknown. We provide a frequentist asymptotic evaluation of Bayesian analysis methods. Our main result gives…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Elisabeth Gassiat , Judith Rousseau

We formulate a complex action theory which includes operators of coordinate and momentum $\hat{q}$ and $\hat{p}$ being replaced with non-hermitian operators $\hat{q}_{new}$ and $\hat{p}_{new}$, and their eigenstates ${}_m <_{new} q |$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Keiichi Nagao , Holger Bech Nielsen

We obtain a new inequality for arbitrary Hermitian matrices. We describe particular linear maps called the matrix portrait of arbitrary NxN matrices. The maps are obtained as analogs of partial tracing of density matrices of multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-15 Margarita A. Man'ko , Vladimir I. Man'ko

We introduce an extension of finite mixture models by incorporating skew-normal distributions within a Hidden Markov Model framework. By assuming a constant transition probability matrix and allowing emission distributions to vary according…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-25 Andrea Nigri , Marco Forti , Han Lin Shang

Non-Hermitian systems exhibiting topological properties are attracting growing interest. In this work, we propose an algorithm for solving the ground state of a non-Hermitian system in the matrix product state (MPS) formalism based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Zhen Guo , Zheng-Tao Xu , Meng Li , Li You , Shuo Yang

We consider ensembles of $N \times N$ Hermitian Wigner matrices, whose entries are (up to the symmetry constraints) independent and identically distributed random variables. Assuming sufficient regularity for the probability density…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Anna Maltsev , Benjamin Schlein

We investigate and ascertain the ideal inputs to any finite-time thermodynamic process. We demonstrate that the expectation values of entropy flow, heat, and work can all be determined via Hermitian observables of the initial state. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Paul M. Riechers , Chaitanya Gupta , Artemy Kolchinsky , Mile Gu

We provide a brief overview of approaches for calculating the density of states of quantum systems and random matrix Hamiltonians using the tools of free probability theory. For a given Hamiltonian of a quantum system or a generic random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Keun-Young Kim , Kuntal Pal

Products and sums of random matrices have seen a rapid development in the past decade due to various analytical techniques available. Two of these are the harmonic analysis approach and the concept of polynomial ensembles. Very recently, it…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Mario Kieburg

Determining ground state energies of quantum systems by hybrid classical/quantum methods has emerged as a promising candidate application for near-term quantum computational resources. Short of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Nicholas C. Rubin