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We systematically characterize the dynamical evolution of time-parity (PT )-symmetric two-level systems with spin-dependent dissipations. If the control parameters of the gap are linearly tuned with time, the dynamical evolution can be…

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Discrete time crystals are periodically driven systems that display spontaneous symmetry breaking of time translation invariance in the form of indefinite subharmonic oscillations. We introduce a thermodynamically consistent model for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-20 Lukas Oberreiter , Udo Seifert , Andre C. Barato

Non-Hermitian, one-dimensional potentials which are also non-local, allow for scattering asymmetries, namely, asymmetric transmission or reflection responses to the incidence of a particle from left or right. The symmetries of the potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Andreas Ruschhaupt , Anthony Kiely , Miguel Ángel Simón , J. Gonzalo Muga

Pure dephasing is the dominant leak mechanism in photonic cat qubits because its phase errors disrupt the parity protection, rendering the qubit vulnerable to energy relaxation. In this manuscript, we reveal that this dephasing mechanism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Ke-Xiong Yan , Zhi-Cheng Shi , Ye-Hong Chen , Yan Xia

Non-Hermitian dynamics in open systems can give rise to a variety of fascinating non-equilibrium phenomena, ranging from symmetry-breaking transitions to directional energy flow. Parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking determines the occurrence…

Parity-Time (PT) symmetric wave devices, which exploit balanced interactions between material gain and loss, exhibit extraordinary properties, including lasing and flux-conserving scattering processes. In a seemingly different research…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-31 Theodoros T. Koutserimpas , Andrea Alu , Romain Fleury

Many-body quantum systems, under suitable conditions, exhibit time-translation symmetry breaking and settle in a discrete time crystalline (DTC) phase -- an out-of-equilibrium quantum phase of matter. The defining feature of DTC is a robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Gourab Das , Saptarshi Saha , Rangeet Bhattacharyya

The life of a cell is governed by highly dynamical microscopic processes. Two notable examples are the diffusion of membrane receptors and the kinetics of transcription factors governing the rates of gene expression. Different fluorescence…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-03 Maxime Woringer , Ignacio Izeddin , Cyril Favard , Hugues Berry

Nonreciprocal active matter systems typically feature an asymmetric role among interacting agents, such as a pursuer-evader relationship. We propose a multi-species nonreciprocal active matter model that is invariant under permutations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Chul-Ung Woo , Heiko Rieger , Jae Dong Noh

We consider finite sized atomic systems with varying number of particles which have dipolar interactions among them and also under the collective driving and dissipative effect of thermal photon environment. Focusing on the simple case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 B. Çakmak , A. Manatuly , Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We theoretically study the non-Hermitian systems, the non-Hermiticity of which arises from the unequal hopping amplitude (UHA) dimers. The distinguishing features of these models are that they have full real spectra if all of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

Dissipative phase transitions (DPT) are defined by sudden changes in the physical properties of nonequilibrium open quantum systems and they present characteristics that have no analog in closed and thermal systems. Several methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Masataka Matsumoto , Zi Cai , Matteo Baggioli

Canonical quantum mechanics postulates Hermitian Hamiltonians to ensure real eigenvalues. Counterintuitively, a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, satisfying combined parity-time (PT) symmetry, could display entirely real spectra above some…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jianming Wen , Xiaoshun Jiang , Liang Jiang , Min Xiao

Heat diffusion describes the process by which heat flows from areas with higher temperatures to ones with lower temperatures. This concept was previously adapted to graph structures, whereby heat flows between nodes of a graph depending on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Stephan Goerttler , Fei He , Min Wu

The possibility of thermal and quantum fluctuations induced attractive interaction leading to a pairing gap \Delta_tq in the single-particle spectrum of d-p model in the limit of a large N of fermion flavor is investigated analytically.…

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Modelling diffusion processes on dynamic contact networks is an important research area for epidemiology, marketing, cybersecurity, and ecology. However, current diffusion models cannot capture transmissions occurring for indirect…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Md Shahzamal

It is known that diffusion provokes substantial changes in continuous absorbing phase transitions. Conversely, its effect on discontinuous transitions is much less understood. In order to shed light in this direction, we study the inclusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-25 Carlos E. Fiore , Gabriel T. Landi

We propose a framework that connects the spatial symmetries of a metasurface to its material parameter tensors and its scattering matrix. This provides a simple yet effective way to effortlessly determine properties of a metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-29 Karim Achouri , Ville Tiukuvaara , Olivier J. F. Martin

Non-Hermitian systems characterized by suitable spatial distributions of gain and loss can exhibit "spectral singularities" in the form of zero-width resonances associated to real-frequency poles in the scattering operator. Here, we study…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Massimo Moccia , Giuseppe Castaldi , Andrea Alù , Vincenzo Galdi

Non-Hermitian systems, going beyond conventional Hermitian systems, have brought in intriguing concepts such as exceptional points and complex spectral topology as well as exotic phenomena such as non-Hermitian skin effects (NHSEs).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Li-Wei Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang