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Estimating observable expectation values in eigenstates of quantum systems has a broad range of applications and is an area where early fault-tolerant quantum computers may provide practical quantum advantage. We develop a hybrid…

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Non-Hermitian many-body systems can be spectrally unstable, so small perturbations may induce large eigenvalue shifts. The pseudospectrum quantifies this instability and provides a perturbation-robust diagnostic. For inverse-polynomially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Gengzhi Yang , Jiaqi Leng , Xiaodi Wu , Lin Lin

The physics of systems that cannot be described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian, has been attracting a great deal of attention in recent years, motivated by their nontrivial responses and by a plethora of applications for sensing, lasing, energy…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-16 Alex Krasnok , Nikita Nefedkin , Andrea Alu

Accurate computation of multiple eigenvalues of quantum Hamiltonians is essential in quantum chemistry, materials science, and molecular spectroscopy. Estimating excited-state energies is challenging for classical algorithms due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć , Szymon Pliś , Emil Zak

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 describe a quantum algorithm for finding the smallest eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix. This algorithm combines Quantum Phase Estimation and Quantum Amplitude Estimation to achieve a quadratic speedup with respect to the best classical…

Solving eigenproblem of the Laplacian matrix of a fully connected weighted graph has wide applications in data science, machine learning, and image processing, etc. However, this is very challenging because it involves expensive matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Hai-Ling Liu , Su-Juan Qin , Lin-Chun Wan , Chao-Hua Yu , Shi-Jie Pan , Fei Gao , Qiao-Yan Wen

Chaotic behavior or lack thereof in non-Hermitian systems is often diagnosed via spectral analysis of associated complex eigenvalues. Very recently, singular values of the associated non-Hermitian systems have been proposed as an effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Mahaveer Prasad , S. Harshini Tekur , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Manas Kulkarni

Quantum computing has been increasingly applied in nuclear physics. In this work, we combine quantum computing with the complex scaling method to address the resonance problem. Due to the non-Hermiticity introduced by complex scaling,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-11 Hantao Zhang , Dong Bai , Zhongzhou Ren

In recent decades, an important shift has taken place with the growing role of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. What makes this framework remarkable is that the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonians involved can still be real, just as in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Maamache Mustapha

Quantum algorithms are able to solve particular problems exponentially faster than conventional algorithms, when implemented on a quantum computer. However, all demonstrations to date have required already knowing the answer to construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-22 Xiao-Qi Zhou , Pruet Kalasuwan , Timothy C. Ralph , Jeremy L. O'Brien

Information on quantum systems can be obtained only when they are open (or opened) in relation to a certain environment. As a matter of fact, realistic open quantum systems appear in very different shape. We sketch the theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Ingrid Rotter

Non-Hermitian operators naturally arise in the description of open quantum systems, which exhibit features such as resonances and decay processes, where the associated eigenvalues are complex. Standard quantum algorithms, including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Durgesh Pandey , Ankit Kumar Das , P. Arumugam

A diagonalizable non-Hermitian Hamiltonian having a real spectrum may be used to define a unitary quantum system, if one modifies the inner product of the Hilbert space properly. We give a comprehensive and essentially self-contained review…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

The eigenspectrum of a non-normal matrix, which does not commute with its Hermitian conjugate, is a central issue of non-Hermitian physics that has been extensively studied in the past few years. There is, however, another characteristic of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Nobuyuki Okuma , Yuya O. Nakagawa

Non-Hermitian systems have emerged as a powerful paradigm for ultrasensitive sensing, leveraging unique spectral and dynamical properties that find no counterparts in Hermitian physics. While recent theoretical assessments have established…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kun Yang , Yaoming Chu , Ning Wang , Jianming Cai

We propose a novel non-Hermitian adiabatic quantum optimization algorithm. One of the new ideas is to use a non-Hermitian auxiliary "initial'' Hamiltonian that provides an effective level repulsion for the main Hamiltonian. This effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-15 Gennady P. Berman , Alexander I. Nesterov

The geometry of Hamiltonian's eigenstates is encoded in the quantum geometric tensor (QGT). It contains both the Berry curvature, central to the description of topological matter and the quantum metric. So far the full QGT has been measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Qing Liao , Charly Leblanc , Jiahuan Ren , Feng Li , Yiming Li , Dmitry Solnyshkov , Guillaume Malpuech , Jiannian Yao , Hongbing Fu

Extended quantum mechanics using non-Hermitian, pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians is briefly reviewed. Supersymmetric regularizations, solvable simulations and large-N expansion techniques are recollected as suitable means for the study of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Miloslav Znojil

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians possessing a discrete real spectrum motivated a remarkable research activity in quantum physics and new insights have emerged. In this paper we formulate concepts of statistical thermodynamics for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Natália Bebiano , João da Providência , João P. da Providência