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Synthetic nonconservative systems with parity-time (PT) symmetric gain-loss structures can exhibit unusual spontaneous symmetry breaking that accompanies spectral singularity. Recent studies on PT symmetry in optics and weakly interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-12 Yuto Ashida , Shunsuke Furukawa , Masahito Ueda

We investigate the dynamical information exchange between a two-state system and its environment which is measured by von Neumann entropy. It is found that in the underdamping regime, the entropy dynamics exhibits an extremely non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Zhiguo Lü , H. Zheng

Recent years have seen a growing interest in topological phases beyond the standard paradigm of gapped, isolated systems. One recent direction is to explore topological features in non-hermitian systems that are commonly used as effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Carlos Ortega-Taberner , Maria Hermanns

We investigate the evolution of a state which is dominated by a finite-dimensional non-Hermitian time-dependent Hamiltonian operator with a nondegenerate spectrum by using a biorthonormal approach. The geometric phase between any two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Xiao-Dong Cui , Yujun Zheng

We introduce a general framework for realizing $\mathcal{PT}$-like phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems without imposing explicit parity--time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. The approach is based on constructing a Hamiltonian as the…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jacob L. Barnett , Ramy El-Ganainy

Exceptional points are degeneracies in non-Hermitian systems. A two-state system with parity-time (PT) symmetry usually has only one exceptional point beyond which the eigenmodes are PT-symmetry broken. The so-called symmetry recovery,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Xu-Lin Zhang , Shubo Wang , Wen-Jie Chen , Bo Hou , C. T. Chan

The description of states and dynamics in non-Hermitian systems is fundamentally linked to the choice of an appropriate theoretical framework -- a point of ongoing debate in the field. This work addresses this issue by proposing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Fei Wang , Guoying Liang , Zecheng Zhao , Bao-Ming Xu

We present a general proof that non-Hermitian dynamics and Lindblad dynamics with only decay terms are equivalent in the highest particle subspace. We then propose an unbiased method to determine if a system's dynamics in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Kyle Monkman , Mona Berciu

We consider two classical macrospins with dynamical (frequency-dependent) coupling, modeled by a generalized Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We show that, in the absence of local damping, the resulting dynamics are pseudo-Hermitian. When…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Peter Connick , Shane P. Kelly , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The aim of the paper is to study the question whether or not equilibrium states exist in open quantum systems that are embedded in at least two environments and are described by a non-Hermitian Hamilton operator $\cal H$. The eigenfunctions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Ingrid Rotter

Landau's spontaneous symmetry breaking theory is a fundamental theory that describes the collective behaviors in many-body systems. It was well known that for usual spontaneous symmetry breaking in Hermitian systems, the order-disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-22 Meng-Lei Yang , Heng Wang , Cui-Xian Guo , Xiao-Ran Wang , Gaoyong Sun , Su-Peng Kou

The Lindblad equation is widely employed in studies of Markovian quantum open systems. Here, firstly, a simple result is presented on the time evolution of the non Neumann entropy under the Lindblad equation, which enables one to examine if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Congjie Ou , Ralph V. Chamberlin , Sumiyoshi Abe

Non-Hermitian systems with exceptional points lead to many intriguing phenomena due to the coalescence of both eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors, in comparison to Hermitian systems where only eigenvalues degenerate. In this paper,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 youneng Guo , Guoyou Wang

We study ergodicity breaking in the clean Bose-Hubbard chain for small hopping strength. We see the existence of a non-ergodic regime by means of indicators as the half-chain entanglement entropy of the eigenstates, the average level…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-04 Angelo Russomanno , Michele Fava , Rosario Fazio

$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics has been considered an important theoretical framework for understanding physical phenomena in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems, with a number of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry related applications. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Da-Jian Zhang , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong

We investigate symmetry-resolved entanglement in out-of-equilibrium fermionic systems subject to gain and loss dissipation, which preserves the block-diagonal structure of the reduced density matrix. We derive a hydrodynamic description of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Sara Murciano , Pasquale Calabrese , Vincenzo Alba

By investigating information flow between a general parity-time (PT) -symmetric non-Hermitian system and an environment, we find that the complete information retrieval from the environment can be achieved in the PT-unbroken phase, whereas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Kohei Kawabata , Yuto Ashida , Masahito Ueda

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

We employ the relative entropy as a measure to quantify the difference of eigenmodes between Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems in elliptic optical microcavities. We have found that the average value of the relative entropy in the range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Kabgyun Jeong , Kyu-Won Park , Jaewan Kim

Symmetry-driven wave physics in open systems, exemplified by parity-time (PT) symmetry, has extended the landscape of crystalline phases in materials science to include gain-loss media. Given the growing interest in engineering disorder for…