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Lattice models with non-hermitian, parity and time-reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric Hamiltonians, realized most readily in coupled optical systems, have been intensely studied in the past few years. A $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-06 Andrew K. Harter , Yogesh N. Joglekar

Parity-time (PT) symmetry and anti-PT symmetry have attracted extensive interest for their non-Hermitian spectral properties, particularly the emergence of purely real and imaginary eigenvalues in their symmetry-unbroken regime,…

The study of dynamical large deviations allows for a characterization of stationary states of lattice gas models out of equilibrium conditioned on averages of dynamical observables. The application of this framework to the two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-05 Ricardo Gutiérrez , Carlos Pérez-Espigares

We study a non-Hermitian extension of the Creutz ladder with generic non-reciprocal hopping. By mapping the ladder onto two decoupled non-Hermitian Su--Schrieffer--Heeger (SSH) chains, we uncover a rich structure in parameter space under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Debashish Dutta , Sayan Choudhury

We investigate the behavior of light-wave packets injected into non-Hermitian microcavity lattices under highly dissipative conditions. While all eigenstates of the lattice exhibit exponential decay, a specifically excited state maintains…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-15 Xiaohan Jiang , Yuanyuan Pan , Yang Zhang , Ye Xiong

A flat band is nondispersive and formed under destructive interference. Although flat bands are found in various Hermitian systems, to realize a flat band in non-Hermitian systems is an interesting task. Here, we propose a flat band in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 L. Jin

We study dynamical phase transitions occurring in the stationary state of the dynamics of integrable many-body non-hermitian Hamiltonians, which can be either realized as a no-click limit of a stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equation or using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Caterina Zerba , Alessandro Silva

We investigate the interplay of superradiant phase transition (SPT) and energy band physics in an extended Dicke-Hubbard lattice whose unit cell consists of a Dicke model coupled to an atomless cavity. We found in such a periodic lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Gui-Lei Zhu , Hamidreza Ramezani , Clive Emary , Jin-Hua Gao , Ying Wu , Xin-You Lü

An imaginary gauge transformation is at the core of the non-Hermitian skin effect. Here we show that such a transformation can be performed in momentum space as well, which reveals that certain gain and loss modulated systems in their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Jose H. D. Rivero , Liang Feng , Li Ge

Exploring the deep insights into localization, disorder, and wave transport in non-Hermitian systems is an emergent area of research of relevance in different areas of physics. Engineered photonic lattices, with spatial regions of optical…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

We demonstrate the emergence of an entire flat band embedded in dispersive bands at the exceptional point of a PT symmetric photonic lattice. For this to occur, the gain and loss parameter effectively alters the size of the partial flat…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-12 Hamidreza Ramezani

The notion of a band gap is ubiquitous in the characterization of matter. Particularly interesting are pseudo-gaps, which are enigmatic regions of very low density of states that have been linked to novel phenomena like high temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Linhu Li , Ching Hua Lee

Systems with non-Hermitian potential or Floquet modulation often result in phase transition related phenomena. In this paper, we study the dual phase transitions in a one-dimensional lattice by introducing a defect containing both Floquet…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-24 Zhenzhi Liu , Ke Li , Yanpeng Zhang , Fu Liu

The spectra of particles in disordered lattices can either be completely extended or localized or can be intermediate which hosts both the localized and extended states separated from each other. In this work, however, we show that in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-03 Soumya Ranjan Padhi , Sanchayan Banerjee , Tanay Nag , Tapan Mishra

We establish non-Hermitian topological mechanics in one dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) lattices consisting of mass points connected by meta-beams that lead to odd elasticity. Extended from the "non-Hermitian skin effect" in 1D…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Di Zhou , Junyi Zhang

In closed quantum systems, a dynamical phase transition is identified by nonanalytic behaviors of the return probability as a function of time. In this work, we study the nonunitary dynamics following quenches across exceptional points in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Longwen Zhou , Qing-hai Wang , Hailong Wang , Jiangbin Gong

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time (PT) symmetric complex potentials can exhibit a phase transition when the degree of non-Hermiticity is increased. Two eigenstates coalesce at a transition point, which is known as the exceptional point…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-07 Kun Ding , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

We analyze the scattering dynamics and spectrum of a quantum particle on a tight-binding lattice subject to a non-Hermitian (purely imaginary) local potential. The reflection, transmission and absorption coefficients are studied as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Phillip C. Burke , Jan Wiersig , Masudul Haque

In many classical and quantum systems described by an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, spectral phase transitions, from an entirely real energy spectrum to a complex spectrum, can be observed as a non-Hermitian parameter in the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Stefano Longhi , Liang Feng

Magnetic phase transitions have been explored in a superlattice formed by stacking monolayers of $\rm LaTiO_{3}$ and $\rm LaVO_{3}$ alternately, using ab-initio density functional theory (DFT) and Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations. DFT derived…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Mukesh Sharma , Tulika Maitra