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The geometrical Berry phase is key to understanding the behaviour of quantum states under cyclic adiabatic evolution. When generalised to non-Hermitian systems with gain and loss, the Berry phase can become complex, and should modify not…

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Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are relevant to describe the features of a broad class of physical phenomena, ranging from photonics and atomic and molecular systems to nuclear physics and mesoscopic electronic systems. An important question…

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Among non-Hermitian systems, pseudo-Hermitian phases represent a special class of physical models characterized by real energy spectra and by the absence of non-Hermitian skin effects. Here, we show that several pseudo-Hermitian phases in…

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Non-Hermitian physics has emerged as a rich field of study, with applications ranging from $PT$-symmetry breaking and skin effects to non-Hermitian topological phase transitions. Yet most studies remain restricted to small-scale or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Yukun Zhang , Wenhao He , Xiao Yuan

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry and anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry give rise to exceptional points (EPs) with intriguing properties related to, e.g., chiral transport and enhanced sensitivity, due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Hossein Rangani Jahromi , Rosario Lo Franco

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) characterizes the Hilbert space geometry of the eigenstates of a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian. In recent years, the QGT and related quantities have found extensive theoretical and experimental utility,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-20 Rustem Sharipov , Anastasiia Tiutiakina , Alexander Gorsky , Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Understanding the interplay between quantum coherence and non-Hermitian features would enable the devising of quantum technologies based on dissipative systems. In turn, quantum coherence can be characterized in terms of the language of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Diego Paiva Pires , Tommaso Macrì

In this paper, we describe some interesting properties of a non-Hermitian Jaynes-Cummings model. For this particular model, it is known that the Hilbert space can be described by infinitely-many two-dimensional invariant (closed) subspaces,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Gargi Das , Aritra Ghosh , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

The quantum geometric tensor has established itself as a general framework for the analysis and detection of equilibrium phase transitions in isolated quantum systems. We propose a novel generalization of the quantum geometric tensor, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Pavel Orlov , Georgy V. Shlyapnikov , Denis V. Kurlov

Quantum systems are often classified into Hermitian and non-Hermitian ones. Extraordinary non-Hermitian phenomena, ranging from the non-Hermitian skin effect to the supersensitivity to boundary conditions, have been widely explored. Whereas…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-25 Chenwei Lv , Ren Zhang , Zhengzheng Zhai , Qi Zhou

We propose a pair of the complex Berry curvatures associated with the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and its Hermitian adjoint to reveal new physics in non-Hermitian systems. We give the complex Berry curvature and Berry phase for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Annan Fan , Guang-Yao Huang , Shi-Dong Liang

The quantum metric, a key component of quantum geometry, plays a central role in a wide range of physical phenomena and has been extensively studied in periodic crystals and moir\'{e} materials. Here, we systematically investigate quantum…

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The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian describes the effective dynamics of a system coupled to a continuously measured bath, and can exhibit anti-unitary symmetries that give rise to exceptional points and broken phases with complex eigenvalues,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sejal Ahuja , Keshav Das Agarwal , Aditi Sen De

A series of geometric concepts are formulated for $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics and they are further unified into one entity, i.e., an extended quantum geometric tensor (QGT). The imaginary part of the extended QGT gives a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Da-Jian Zhang , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong

The geometry of quantum states can be an indicator of criticality, yet it remains less explored under non-Hermitian topological conditions. In this work, we unveil diverse scalings of the quantum geometry over the ground state manifold…

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We discuss the basic theoretical framework for non-Hermitian quantum systems with particular emphasis on the diagonalizability of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and their $GL(1,\mathbb{C})$ gauge freedom, which are relevant to the adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Qi Zhang , Biao Wu

The local geometry of the parameter space of a quantum system is described by the quantum metric tensor and the Berry curvature, which are two fundamental objects that play a crucial role in understanding geometrical aspects of condensed…

The eigenvalues of a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian matrix form a band structure in parameter space. In such $N$-band systems, the quantum geometric tensor (QGT), consisting of the Berry curvature and quantum metric tensors, is usually…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-18 Ansgar Graf , Frédéric Piéchon

The experimental realisation of the basic constituents of quantum information processing devices, namely fault-tolerant quantum logic gates, requires conditional quantum dynamics, in which one subsystem undergoes a coherent evolution that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Jones , V. Vedral , A. Ekert , G. Castagnoli

As a fundamental concept in condensed matter physics, quantum geometry within the Riemannian metric elucidates various exotic phenomena, including the Hall effects driven by Berry curvature and quantum metric. In this work, we propose novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Miaomiao Wei , Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang