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We study the properties of an N-site tight-binding ring with parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetric, Hermitian, site-dependent tunneling and a pair of non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric, loss and gain impurities $\pm i\gamma$. The properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Derek D. Scott , Yogesh N. Joglekar

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems depicts the exponential localization of eigenstates at system's boundaries. It has led to a number of counter-intuitive phenomena and challenged our understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Weiwei Zhu , Wei Xin Teo , Linhu Li , Jiangbin Gong

We investigate a two-level spin system based anti-parity-time (anti-$\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric qubit and study its decoherence as well as entanglement entropy properties. We compare our findings with that of the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Julia Cen , Avadh Saxena

We show that Hilbert-space holonomy provides a geometric organizing principle for spectral reality in fragmented non-Hermitian many-body systems, complementary to conventional symmetry protection. In two minimal fragmented models, complex…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Jiong-Hao Wang , Maria Zelenayova , Christopher Ekman , Emil J. Bergholtz

We study the localization properties of non-interacting waves propagating in a speckle-like potential superposed on a one-dimensional lattice. Using a decimation/renormalization procedure, we estimate the localization length for a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Serpil Sucu , Saban Aktas , S. Erol Okan , Zehra Akdeniz , Patrizia Vignolo

We analyze the scattering dynamics and spectrum of a quantum particle on a tight-binding lattice subject to a non-Hermitian (purely imaginary) local potential. The reflection, transmission and absorption coefficients are studied as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Phillip C. Burke , Jan Wiersig , Masudul Haque

In Hermitian systems, Krylov complexity has emerged as a powerful diagnostic of quantum dynamics, capable of distinguishing chaotic from integrable phases, in agreement with established probes such as spectral statistics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Matteo Baggioli , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Xuhao Jiang , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

Non-Hermiticity and dephasing, collaborating in an unusual wave packet dynamics, realizes unconventional entanglement evolution in a disordered, interacting and asymmetric (non-reciprocal) quantum medium. Taking the Hatano-Nelson model as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-14 Takahiro Orito , Ken-Ichiro Imura

The parity-time (PT) symmetry of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian leads to real (complex) energy spectrum when the non-Hermiticity is below (above) a threshold. Recently, it has been demonstrated that the non-Hermitian skin effect generates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yu-Min Hu , Hong-Yi Wang , Zhong Wang , Fei Song

We study quench dynamics in a t-V chain of spinless fermions (equivalent to the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain) with strong potential disorder. For this prototypical model of many-body localization we have recently argued that -- contrary to the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-29 M. Kiefer-Emmanouilidis , R. Unanyan , M. Fleischhauer , J. Sirker

One of the most pronounced non-Hermitian phenomena is the non-Hermitian skin effect, which refers to the exponential localization of bulk eigenstates near the boundaries of non-Hermitian systems. Whereas non-Bloch band theory has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Yu-Min Hu , Yin-Quan Huang , Wen-Tan Xue , Zhong Wang

According to the topological band theory of a Hermitian system, the different electronic phases are classified in terms of topological invariants, wherein the transition between the two phases characterized by a different topological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-24 Aruna Prasad Acharya , Aditi Chakrabarty , Deepak Kumar Sahu , Sanjoy Datta

The non-Hermitian edge burst is a phenomenon observed in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics, characterized by a significant accumulation of loss at the boundaries of a system. We present an example of the edge burst effect in a lossy lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 G. Sen , C. Yuce

We consider wave transport phenomena in a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric extension of the periodically-kicked quantum rotator model and reveal that dynamical localization assists the unbroken $\mathcal{PT}$ phase. In the delocalized (quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Stefano Longhi

The capability to temporarily arrest the propagation of optical signals is one of the main challenges hampering the ever more widespread use of light in rapid long-distance transmission as well as all-optical on-chip signal processing or…

We demonstrate the emergence of an entire flat band embedded in dispersive bands at the exceptional point of a PT symmetric photonic lattice. For this to occur, the gain and loss parameter effectively alters the size of the partial flat…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-12 Hamidreza Ramezani

We study operator spreading in many-body quantum systems by its potential to generate an informationally complete measurement record in quantum tomography. We adopt continuous weak measurement tomography for this purpose. We generate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Abinash Sahu , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Bishal Kumar Das , Vaibhav Madhok

We explore spread and spectral complexity in quantum systems that exhibit a transition from integrability to chaos, namely the mixed-field Ising model and the next-to-nearest-neighbor deformation of the Heisenberg XXZ spin chain. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Hugo A. Camargo , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Viktor Jahnke , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We derive analytical results on energy spectral phase transitions and deformations in the simplest model of one-dimensional lattice displaying the non-Hermitian skin effect, namely the Hatano-Nelson model with unidirectional hopping, under…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-20 Stefano Longhi

Edge burst is a phenomenon in non-Hermitian quantum dynamics discovered by a recent numerical study [W.-T. Xue, et al, Phys. Rev. Lett 2, 128.120401(2022)]. It finds that a large proportion of particle loss occurs at the system boundary in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Pengyu Wen , Jinghui Pi , Guilu Long