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For non-Hermitian quantum models, the dynamics is apparently not reflected by the static properties, e.g., the complex energy spectrum, because of the nonorthogonality of the right eigenvectors, the nonunitarity of the time evolution, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Li-Jun Lang , Yijiao Weng , Yunhui Zhang , Enhong Cheng , Qixia Liang

As energy dissipation and gain are ubiquitous in the real world, such phenomena demand the generalization of Hermitian methods such as the analysis of topological properties for non-Hermitian systems. However, as non-Hermitian systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Cameron Gibson , Evelyn Tang

We investigate a non-Hermitian extension of the Su--Schrieffer--Heeger model that incorporates spin-dependent SU(2) gauge fields, represented by non-Abelian couplings between lattice sites, as well as independent nonreciprocal hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Yazhuang Miao , Yiming Zhao , Yong Wang , Jie Qiao , Xiaolong Zhao , Xuexi Yi

In specific open systems with collective dissipation the Liouvillian can be mapped to a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We here consider such a system where the Liouvillian is mapped to an XXZ Richardson-Gaudin integrable model and detail its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Pieter W. Claeys , Austen Lamacraft

A non-Hermitian topological insulator is fundamentally different from conventional topological insulators. The non-Hermitian skin effect arises in a nonreciprocal tight binding lattice with open edges. In this case, not only topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 C. Yuce

Non-Hermitian quantum systems, characterized by their ability to model open systems with gain and loss, have unveiled striking phenomena such as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), where eigenstates localize at boundaries under open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chakradhar Rangi , Juana Moreno , Ka-Ming Tam

Non-Hermitian quasicrystals possess PT and metal-insulator transitions induced by gain and loss or nonreciprocal effects. In this work, we uncover the nature of localization transitions in a generalized Aubry-Andre-Harper model with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-08-20 Longwen Zhou , Wenqian Han

The phenomenon of degeneracy of an $N-$plet of bound states is studied in the framework of quantum theory of closed (i.e., unitary) systems. For an underlying Hamiltonian $H=H(\lambda)$ the degeneracy occurs at a Kato's exceptional point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 Miloslav Znojil

The ground-state degeneracy of the quantum spin system is a characteristic of nontrivial topology, when it is gapped and robust against disordered perturbation. The corresponding quantum phase transition (QPT) is usually driven by a real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

We investigate the quantum dynamics of the 1D spinless Fermi-Hubbard model with a linear-tilted potential. Surprisingly in a strong resonance regime, we show that the model can be described by the kinetically constrained effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-01 Wei-Jie Huang , Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Wu-Ming Liu , Xu-Bo Zou

The spontaneous disentanglement hypothesis is motivated by some outstanding issues in standard quantum mechanics, including the problem of quantum measurement. The current study compares between some possible methods that can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Eyal Buks

Hamiltonian truncation is a non-perturbative numerical method for calculating observables of a quantum field theory. The starting point for this method is to truncate the interacting Hamiltonian to a finite-dimensional space of states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Timothy Cohen , Kara Farnsworth , Rachel Houtz , Markus A. Luty

Recently, much attention has been paid to uncovering the influence of dissipation on a quantum system, particularly on how the non-Hermitian (NH) terms modify the band topology of topological materials and reshape the profile of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-14 Fei Yang , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-peng Kou

Ever since the formulation of quantum mechanics, there is very little understanding of the process of the collapse of a wavefunction. We have proposed a dynamical model to emulate the measurement postulates of quantum mechanics. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Gurpahul Singh , Ritesh K. Singh , Soumitro Banerjee

We study the dynamical consequences of combining the non-Hermitian skin effect with topological edge states. Focusing on the paradigmatic dissipative Hofstadter model, we find that the time-dependent particle density exhibits both chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Ronika Sarkar , Suraj S. Hegde , Awadhesh Narayan , Tobias Meng

We consider conditions for the existence of boundary modes in non-Hermitian systems with edges of arbitrary co-dimension. Through a universal formulation of formation criteria for boundary modes in terms of local Green functions, we outline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Dan S. Borgnia , Alex Jura Kruchkov , Robert-Jan Slager

Non-Abelian gauge offers a powerful route to engineer novel topological phenomena. Here, we systematically investigate a two-dimensional (2D) non-Hermitian Hatano-Nelson model incorporating SU(2) non-Abelian gauge, demonstrating the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-23 Yiming Zhao , Yazhuang Miao , Yihang Xing , Tianhui Qiu , Hongyang Ma , Xiaolong Zhao

In non-Hermitian crystals showing the non-Hermitian skin effect, ordinary Bloch band theory and Bloch topological invariants fail to correctly predict energy spectra, topological boundary states, and symmetry breaking phase transitions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Stefano Longhi

Topological materials exhibit edge-localized scattering-free modes protected by their nontrivial bulk topology through the bulk-edge correspondence in Hermitian systems. While topological phenomena have recently been much investigated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Kazuki Sone , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

Non-Hermiticity has widespread applications in quantum physics. It brings about distinct topological phases without Hermitian counterparts, and gives rise to the fundamental challenge of phase classification from both theoretical and…