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Evolutions under non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with unbroken $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry can be considered unitary under appropriate choices of inner products, facilitated by the so-called metric operator. While it is understood that the choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Himanshu Badhani , C. M. Chandrashekar

We compare two approaches to open quantum systems, namely, the non-Hermitian dynamics and the Lindblad master equation. In order to deal with more general dissipative phenomena, we propose the unified master equation that combines the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev , Alessandro Sergi

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

Recently, apparent nonphysical implications of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics (NHQM) have been discussed in the literature. In particular, the apparent violation of the no-signaling theorem, discrimination of nonorthogonal states, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Chia-Yi Ju , Adam Miranowicz , Guang-Yin Chen , Franco Nori

For decades, Hermiticity was considered an immutable axiom of quantum mechanics, essential for ensuring real energies and unitary evolution. This perspective has shifted radically, driven by the realization that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Federico Roccati , Federico Balducci

In recent reports, suggestions have been put forward to the effect that parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetry in quantum mechanics is incompatible with causality. It is shown here, in contrast, that PT-symmetric quantum mechanics is fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Dorje C. Brody

In this work we intend to study a class of time-dependent quantum systems with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, particularly those whose Hermitian counterpart are important for the comprehension of posed problems in quantum optics and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. de Souza Dutra , M. B. Hott , V. G. C. S dos Santos

The construction of exactly-solvable models has recently been advanced by considering integrable $T\bar{T}$ deformations and related Hamiltonian deformations in quantum mechanics. We introduce a broader class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Apollonas S. Matsoukas-Roubeas , Federico Roccati , Julien Cornelius , Zhenyu Xu , Aurelia Chenu , Adolfo del Campo

Non-Hermitian systems are widespread in both classical and quantum physics. The dynamics of such systems has recently become a focal point of research, showcasing surprising behaviors that include apparent violation of the adiabatic theorem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Parveen Kumar , Yuval Gefen , Kyrylo Snizhko

We present a coherent and consistent framework for explicit time-dependence in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. The area of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics has been growing rapidly over the past twenty years. This has been driven by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Thomas Frith

We propose random non-Hermitian Hamiltonians to model the generic stochastic nonlinear dynamics of a quantum state in Hilbert space. Our approach features an underlying linearity in the dynamical equations, ensuring the applicability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Pei Wang

This topical review article reports rapid progress on the generalization and application of entanglement in non-Hermitian free-fermion quantum systems. We begin by examining the realization of non-Hermitian quantum systems through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Li-Mei Chen , Yao Zhou , Shuai A. Chen , Peng Ye

We provide a new perspective on non-Hermitian evolution in quantum mechanics by emphasizing the same method as in the Hermitian quantum evolution. We first give a precise description of the non unitary evolution, and collecting the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Mustapha Maamache

We discuss the emulation of non-Hermitian dynamics during a given time window by a low-dimensional quantum system coupled to a finite set of equidistant discrete states acting as an effective continuum. We first emulate the decay of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Eloi Flament , François Impens , David Guéry-Odelin

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

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

We study the quantum entropy of systems that are described by general non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, including those which can model the effects of sinks or sources. We generalize the von Neumann entropy to the non- Hermitian case and find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 Alessandro Sergi , Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

In this work we present a general formalism to treat non-Hermitian and noncommutative Hamiltonians. This is done employing the phase-space formalism of quantum mechanics, which allows to write a set of robust maps connecting the Hamitonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Jonas F. G. Santos , Fabricio. S. Luiz , Oscar. S. Duarte , Miled. H. Y. Moussa

The non-Hermitian formalism is used at present in many papers for the description of open quantum systems. A special language developed in this field of physics which makes it difficult for many physicists to follow and to understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Hichem Eleuch , Ingrid Rotter

Ever since the formulation of quantum mechanics, there is very little understanding of the process of the collapse of a wavefunction. We have proposed a dynamical model to emulate the measurement postulates of quantum mechanics. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Gurpahul Singh , Ritesh K. Singh , Soumitro Banerjee