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Trapping ultracold atoms in optical lattices enabled numerous breakthroughs uniting several disciplines. Coupling these systems to quantized light leads to a plethora of new phenomena and has opened up a new field of study. Here we…

We introduce an approach to describe quantum-coherent evolution of a system of cold atoms in an optical lattice triggered by a change in superlattice potential. Using a time-dependent mean field description, we map the problem to a strong…

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The spectral properties of a non-Hermitian quasi-1D lattice in two of the possible dimerization configurations are investigated. Specifically, it focuses on a non-Hermitian diamond chain that presents a zero-energy flat band. The flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 C. Martínez-Strasser , M. A. J. Herrera , A. García-Etxarri , G. Palumbo , F. K. Kunst , D. Bercioux

Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms has become a powerful technique to gain insight into interacting many-body systems. In particular, the possibility to study nonequilibrium dynamics offers a unique pathway to understand correlations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-29 Sebastian Will , Deepak Iyer , Marcos Rigol

The existence of many-body mobility edges in closed quantum systems has been the focus of intense debate after the emergence of the description of the many-body localization phenomenon. Here we propose that this issue can be settled in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Xing Bo Wei , Chen Cheng , Gao Xianlong , Rubem Mondaini

Fermionic artificial matter realized with cold atoms grants access to an unprecedented degree of control on sophisticated many-body effects with an enhanced flexibility of the operating conditions. We consider three-component fermions with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-14 Wayne J. Chetcuti , Juan Polo , Andreas Osterloh , Paolo Castorina , Luigi Amico

Understanding the relationship between many-body localization and spectra in non-Hermitian many-body systems is crucial. In a one-dimensional clean, long-range interaction-induced non-Hermitian many-body localization system, we have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-10 Wen Wang , Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

We analyze many-body entanglement in interacting fermionic systems by using the $M$-body reduced density matrix. We demonstrate that if a particle number conserving fermionic Hamiltonian contains only up to $M$-body interaction terms, then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Irakli Giorgadze , Grayson Welch , Haixuan Huang , Elio J. König , Jukka I. Väyrynen

Light enables manipulating many-body states of matter, and atoms trapped in optical lattices is a prominent example. However, quantum properties of light are completely neglected in all quantum gas experiments. Extending methods of quantum…

Far from being limited to a trivial generalization of their Hermitian counterparts, non-Hermitian topological phases have gained widespread interest due to their unique properties. One of the most striking non-Hermitian phenomena is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Kuangyin Deng , Benedetta Flebus

We illuminate the fundamental mechanism responsible for the transition between the non-Hermitian skin effect and defect-induced localization in the bulk. We study a Hamiltonian with non-reciprocal couplings that exhibits the skin effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Bryn Davies , Silvio Barandun , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Richard V. Craster , Habib Ammari

With the advent of quantum simulation experiments of lattice gauge theories (LGTs), an open question is the effect of non-Hermiticity on their rich physics. The well-known PXP model, a U$(1)$ LGT with a two-level electric field in one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yevgeny Bar Lev , Jad C. Halimeh , Achilleas Lazarides

We demonstrate that crystal defects can act as a probe of intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. In particular, in point-gapped systems with periodic boundary conditions, a pair of dislocations may induce a non-Hermitian skin effect, where an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Frank Schindler , Abhinav Prem

Quantum devices characterized by non-Hermitian topology are predicted to show highly robust and potentially useful properties, but realizing them has remained a daunting experimental task. This is because non-Hermiticity is often associated…

The non-Hermitian skin effect is a distinctive phenomenon in non-Hermitian systems, which manifests as the anomalous localization of bulk states at the boundary. To understand the physical origin of the non-Hermitian skin effect, a bulk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Tuo Wan , Kai Zhang , Junkai Li , Zhesen Yang , Zhaoju Yang

The decay of a bound state weakly-coupled to a non-Hermitian tight-binding unstable continuum, i.e. a continuum of states comprising energies with positive imaginary part, is theoretically investigated. As compared to quantum decay in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Stefano Longhi

We propose a general scheme for a digital construction of lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermions. In this method, the four-body interactions arising in models with $2+1$ dimensions and higher, are obtained stroboscopically, through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Erez Zohar , Alessandro Farace , Benni Reznik , J. Ignacio Cirac

The study of topological states has developed rapidly in electric circuits, which permits flexible fabrications of non-Hermitian systems by introducing non-Hermitian terms. Here, nonreciprocal coupling terms are realized by utilizing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Bin Liu , Yang Li , Bin Yang , Xiaopeng Shen , Yuting Yang , Zhi Hong Hang , Motohiko Ezawa

We study the dynamics of two strongly-interacting fermions moving in 2D lattices under the action of a periodic electric field, both with and without a magnetic flux. Due to the interaction, these particles bind together forming a doublon.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-22 Miguel Bello , Charles E. Creffield , Gloria Platero