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The non-Hermitian skin effect is fundamentally characterized by its sensitivity to boundary conditions, reflected in changes to the energy spectrum and boundary-localized eigenstates. Here, we demonstrate that a spatially inhomogeneous…

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A class of one-dimensional lattice models with incommensurate complex potential $V(\theta)=2[\lambda_r cos(\theta)+i \lambda_i sin(\theta)]$ is found to exhibit localization transition at $|\lambda_r|+|\lambda_i|=1$. This transition from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Amin Jazaeri , Indubala I. Satija

The possibility of topological phase transition with or without a magnetic flux trapped in the cells of a class of decorated lattices is explored in details.Using a tight binding Hamiltonian and a real space decimation scheme we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Sougata Biswas

Ultracold Fermi gases trapped in honeycomb optical lattices provide an intriguing scenario, where relativistic quantum electrodynamics can be tested. Here, we generalize this system to non-Abelian quantum electrodynamics, where massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Bermudez , N. Goldman , A. Kubasiak , M. Lewenstein , M. A. Martin-Delgado

We investigate a two-parametric family of one-dimensional non-Hermitian complex potentials with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. We find that there exist two distinct types of phase transitions, from an unbroken phase (characterized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Jinlin Fan , Feilong Wang , Ruolin Chai Zhibin Zhao , Qiongtao Xie

Bloch-Zener oscillations (BZO), i.e. the interplay between Bloch oscillations and Zener tunneling in two-band lattices under an external dc force, are ubiquitous in different areas of wave physics, including photonics. While in Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Stefano Longhi

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the properties of topological models, leading to exotic features such as the non-Hermitian skin effects and non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence that have no counterparts in Hermitian settings. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Quan Lin , Tianyu Li , Lei Xiao , Kunkun Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

We consider the possibility of topological quantum phase transitions of ultracold fermions in optical lattices, which can be studied as a function of interaction strength or atomic filling factor (density). The phase transitions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-08-12 R. W. Cherng , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

We introduce a general framework for realizing $\mathcal{PT}$-like phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems without imposing explicit parity--time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. The approach is based on constructing a Hamiltonian as the…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jacob L. Barnett , Ramy El-Ganainy

We study the statistical properties of a single free quantum particle evolving coherently on a discrete lattice in ${\rm d}$ spatial dimensions where every lattice site is additionally subject to continuous measurement of the occupation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Tony Jin , David G. Martin

We study the localization transition in periodically driven one-dimensional non-Hermitian lattices where the piece-wise two-step drive is constituted by uniform coherent tunneling and incommensurate onsite gain and loss. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 C. M. Dai , Yunbo Zhang , Xuexi Yi

Imaginary gauge transformation (IGT) provides a clear understanding of the non-Hermitian skin effect by transforming the non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with real spectra into Hermitian ones. In this paper, we extend this approach to the complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Yunyao Qi , Jinghui Pi , Yuquan Wu , Heng Lin , Chao Zheng , Gui-Lu Long

The method of synthetic gauge potentials opens up a new avenue for our understanding and discovering novel quantum states of matter. We investigate the topological quantum phase transition of Fermi gases trapped in a honeycomb lattice in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Fadi Sun , Xiao-Lu Yu , Jinwu Ye , Heng Fan , Wu-Ming Liu

Exceptional points, the spectral degeneracy points in the complex parameter space, are fundamental to non-Hermitian quantum systems. The dynamics of non-Hermitian systems in the presence of exceptional points differ significantly from those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Chon-Fai Kam , Yang Chen

We investigated the behavior of non-Hermitian bosonic gases with Hubbard interactions in the one-dimensional zigzag optical lattices through the calculation of dynamic response functions. Our findings showed the existence of a non-Hermitian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-22 Chengxi Li , Yubiao Wu , Wu-Ming Liu

Distribution function and current density in a one-dimensional superlattice with parabolic miniband are calculated. The current dependence on the temperature coincides with experimental data. Generalization is carried out to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 G. M. Shmelev , T. A. Gorshenina , E. M. Epshtein

We analyze a tight-binding model of ultracold fermions loaded in an optical square lattice and subjected to a synthetic non-Abelian gauge potential featuring both a magnetic field and a translationally invariant SU(2) term. We consider in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-19 M. Burrello , I. C. Fulga , E. Alba , L. Lepori , A. Trombettoni

Considering one-dimensional nonminimally-coupled lattice gauge theories, a class of nonlocal one-dimensional systems is presented, which exhibits a phase transition. It is shown that the transition has a latent heat, and, therefore, is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Khorrami

We study Landau-Zener interband transitions for a non-symmetric optical lattice in the presence of an external force. We show that gain and losses of the light beam, as well as the relative occupation probabilities of the bands involved in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Morales-Molina , S. A. Reyes