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Quantum devices characterized by non-Hermitian topology are predicted to show highly robust and potentially useful properties, but realizing them has remained a daunting experimental task. This is because non-Hermiticity is often associated…

A consistent physical theory of quantum mechanics can be built on a complex Hamiltonian that is not Hermitian but instead satisfies the physical condition of space-time reflection symmetry (PT symmetry). Thus, there are infinitely many new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Carl M. Bender , Dorje C. Brody , Hugh F. Jones

In recent years, non-Hermitian quantum physics has gained a lot in popularity in the quantum optics and condensed matter communities in order to model quantum systems with varying symmetries. In this paper, we identify a non-standard inner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jake Southall , Daniel Hodgson , Robert Purdy , Almut Beige

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ygor Pará , Giandomenico Palumbo , Tommaso Macrì

A non-Hermitian Hamiltonian that has an unbroken PT symmetry can be converted by means of a similarity transformation to a physically equivalent Hermitian Hamiltonian. This raises the following question: In which form of the quantum theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Carl M. Bender , Jun-Hua Chen , Kimball A. Milton

A possible method to investigate non-Hermitian Hamiltonians is suggested through finding a Hermitian operator $\eta_+$ and defining the annihilation and creation operators to be $\eta_+$-pseudo-Hermitian adjoint to each other. The operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 Jun-Qing Li , Yan-Gang Miao , Zhao Xue

The operational approach to time is a cornerstone of relativistic theories, as evidenced by the notion of proper time. In standard quantum mechanics, however, time is an external parameter. Recently, many attempts have been made to extend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Ismael L. Paiva , Amit Te'eni , Bar Y. Peled , Eliahu Cohen , Yakir Aharonov

Non-Hermitian systems satisfying parity-time (PT) symmetry have aroused considerable interest owing to their exotic features. Anti-PT symmetry is an important counterpart of the PT symmetry, and has been studied in various classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ji Bian , Pengfei Lu , Teng Liu , Hao Wu , Xinxin Rao , Kunxu Wang , Qifeng Lao , Yang Liu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

A fundamental axiom of quantum mechanics requires the Hamiltonians to be Hermitian which guarantees real eigen-energies and probability conservation. However, a class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with Parity-Time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Yang Wu , Wenqiang Liu , Jianpei Geng , Xingrui Song , Xiangyu Ye , Chang-Kui Duan , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

Engineering quantum bath networks through non-Hermitian subsystem Hamiltonians has recently emerged as a promising strategy for qubit cooling, state stabilization, and fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, scaling these systems while…

We provide time-evolution operators, gauge transformations and a perturbative treatment for non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems, which are explicitly time-dependent. We determine various new equivalence pairs for Hermitian and non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria , Andreas Fring

Non-Hermitian matrices are ubiquitous in the description of nature ranging from classical dissipative systems, including optical, electrical, and mechanical metamaterials, to scattering of waves and open quantum many-body systems. Seminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , J. Lukas K. König , Lukas Rødland , Marcus Stålhammar , Emil J. Bergholtz

One of the postulates of quantum mechanics is that the Hamiltonian is Hermitian, as this guarantees that the eigenvalues are real. Recently there has been an interest in asking if $H^\dagger = H$ is a necessary condition, and has lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Damien Martin

Interacting and open quantum systems can be formulated in terms of an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian (NHH), however, there are important constraints that must be satisfied by the effective action and the associated Green's functions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Aaron Kleger , Rufus Boyack

A series of recent papers ``Faster than Hermitian Quantum Mechanics'' and related articles made a point of the possibility of a non-Hermitian, but PT-symmetric, operator to play the role of a Hamiltonian. In particular, they show that with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-15 Mark J. Everitt , Shaaban Khalil , Alexandre M. Zagoskin

The metric associated with a quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonian and its physical implications are scrutinised. Consequences of the non-uniqueness such as the question of the probability interpretation and the possible and forbidden choices of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 H. B. Geyer , W. D. Heiss , F. G. Scholtz

We study the connection between a family of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians H and Hermitian ones H based on exact solutions. In general, for a dynamic process in a non-Hermitian system H, there always exists a parallel dynamic process governed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 P. Wang , S. Lin , L. Jin , Z. Song

The motivation for studying non-Hermitian systems and the role of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry is discussed. We investigate the use of a quantum algorithm to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, with applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 James Hancock , Matthew J. Craven , Craig McNeile , Davide Vadacchino

Starting with the modified Dirac equations for free massive particles with the $\gamma_5$-extension of the physical mass $m\rightarrow m_1 + \gamma_5 m_2$, we consider equations of relativistic quantum mechanics in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-03 V. N. Rodionov

We develop relativistic non-Hermitian quantum theory and its application to neutrino physics in a strong magnetic field. It is well known, that one of the fundamental postulates of quantum theory is the requirement of Hermiticity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-25 V. N. Rodionov