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In recent years, non-Hermitian quantum physics has gained a lot in popularity in the quantum optics and condensed matter communities in order to model quantum systems with varying symmetries. In this paper, we identify a non-standard inner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jake Southall , Daniel Hodgson , Robert Purdy , Almut Beige

In most introductory courses on quantum mechanics one is taught that the Hamiltonian operator must be Hermitian in order that the energy levels be real and that the theory be unitary (probability conserving). To express the Hermiticity of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carl M. Bender

A new model of supersymmetry between bosons and fermions is proposed. Its representation space is spanned by states with PT symmetry and real energies but the inter-related partner Hamiltonians themselves remain complex and non-Hermitian.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Znojil , F. Cannata , B. Bagchi , R. Roychoudhury

This report deals with the quantum theory of flavor oscillations in vacuum, extended to fermionic particles in the several subtle aspects of the first and second quantization theories. In this scenario, the use of the Dirac equation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-14 Alex E. Bernardini , Marcelo M. Guzzo , Celso C. Nishi

Thermal density matrices can be described by a pure quantum state within the thermofield formalism. Here we show how to construct a class of Hamiltonians realizing a thermofield state as their ground state. These Hamiltonians are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-06 Adrian E. Feiguin , Israel Klich

We further develop a recently proposed new approach to the description of the relativistic neutrino flavour $\nu_e^L \leftrightarrow \nu_{\mu}^L$, spin $\nu_e^L \leftrightarrow \nu_{e}^R$ and spin-flavour $\nu_e^L \leftrightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Artem Popov , Alexander Studenikin

We study the phenomena of neutrino oscillations and flavour mixing by incorporating the gravitational effects through the Dirac equation in curved spacetime inside a spherically symmetric star. We show that the flavour transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay , Golam Mortuza Hossain

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians enrich quantum physics by extending conventional phase diagrams, enabling novel topological phenomena, and realizing exceptional points with potential applications in quantum sensing. Here, we present an…

In this letter, we investigate the effects of non-Hermitian driving on quantum coherence in a bipartite system. The results that the dynamical localization destroyed by the Hermitian interaction revives are an evidence of the restoration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Kai-Qian Huang , Wen-Lei Zhao , Zhi Li

The observed pattern of fermion masses and mixing is an outstanding puzzle in particle physics, generally known as the flavor problem. Over the years, guided by precision neutrino oscillation data, discrete flavor symmetries have often been…

The quantum metric, a geometric measure of state-space distance, has recently attracted growing attention for capturing anomalous state responses to parameter variations. Especially in non-Hermitian systems, the quantum metric has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Teng Liu , Xiaohang Zhang , Jiawei Zhang , Le Luo

Models based on non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit a range of surprising and potentially useful phenomena. Physical realizations typically involve couplings to sources of incoherent gain and loss; this is problematic in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Yu-Xin Wang , A. A. Clerk

We analyze the problem of neutrino oscillations via a fermionic particle detector model inspired by the physics of the Fermi theory of weak interactions. The model naturally leads to a description of emission and absorption of neutrinos in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-24 Bruno de S. L. Torres , T. Rick Perche , André G. S. Landulfo , George E. A. Matsas

We show that the phase appearing in neutrino flavor oscillation formulae has a geometric and topological contribution. We identify a topological phase appearing in the two flavor neutrino oscillation formula using Pancharatnam's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Poonam Mehta

We present a formalism for the flavor oscillation of unstable particles that relies only upon the structure of the time Fourier-transformed two-point Green's function. We derive exact oscillation probability and integrated oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-26 Mario Martone , Dean J. Robinson

The axioms of Quantum Mechanics require that the hamiltonian of any closed system is self-adjoint, so that energy levels are real and time evolution preserves probability. On the other hand, non-hermitian hamiltonians with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Bruno W. Mintz , Itai Y. Pinheiro , Rui Aquino

Models of disorder with a direction (constant imaginary vector-potential) are considered. These non-Hermitian models can appear as a result of computation for models of statistical physics using transfer matrix technique or describe…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 K. B. Efetov

We study the quantum entanglement and separability of Hermitian and pseudo-Hermitian systems of identical bosonic or fermionic particles with point interactions. The separability conditions are investigated in detail.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shao-Ming Fei

A review is given on the foundations and applications of non-Hermitian classical and quantum physics. First, key theorems and central concepts in non-Hermitian linear algebra, including Jordan normal form, biorthogonality, exceptional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Yuto Ashida , Zongping Gong , Masahito Ueda

We show that a quantum system possessing an exact antilinear symmetry, in particular PT-symmetry, is equivalent to a quantum system having a Hermitian Hamiltonian. We construct the unitary operator relating an arbitrary non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ali Mostafazadeh