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Non-Hermitian systems exhibit phenomena that are qualitatively different from those of Hermitian systems and have been exploited to achieve a number of ends, including the generation of exceptional points, nonreciprocal dynamics,…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-23 H. Xu , D. Mason , Luyao Jiang , J. G. E. Harris

Non-Hermitian systems, which contain gain or loss, commonly host exceptional point degeneracies rather than the diabolic points found in Hermitian systems. We present a class of non-Hermitian lattice models with symmetry-stabilized diabolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Haoran Xue , Qiang Wang , Baile Zhang , Y. D. Chong

The emergence of exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems represents an intriguing phenomenon characterized by the coalescence of eigenenergies and eigenstates. When a system approaches an exceptional point, it exhibits a heightened…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Shu-Xuan Wang , Zhongbo Yan

The time evolution of periodically driven non-Hermitian systems is in general non-unitary but can be stable. It is hence of considerable interest to examine the adiabatic following dynamics in periodically driven non-Hermitian systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Jiangbin Gong , Qing-hai Wang

Boundary time crystals (BTCs) break time-translation symmetry and exhibit long-lived, robust oscillations insensitive to initial conditions. We show that collective spin BTCs can admit emergent topological winding numbers in operator space.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Dominik Nemeth , Ahsan Nazir , Alessandro Principi , Robert-Jan Slager

Exceptional point in non-Hermitian system possesses fascinating properties. We present an exactly solvable attractor dynamics for the first time from a two-level time dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. It allows a way to evolve to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 C. Li , P. Wang , L. Jin , Z. Song

Non-Hermitian physics provides an effective description of open and nonequilibrium systems and hosts many novel and intriguing phenomena such as exceptional points and non-Hermitian skin effect. Despite extensive theoretical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Menghua Deng , Wei Li , Kangyi Hu , Fuxiang Li

Bursting is a periodic transition between a quiescent state and a state of repetitive spiking. The phenomenon is ubiquitous in a variety of neurophysical systems. We numerically study the dynamical properties of a normal form of subcritical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gautam C Sethia , Abhijit Sen

Exceptional points, at which two or more eigenfunctions of a Hamiltonian coalesce, occur in non-Hermitian systems and lead to surprising physical effects. In particular, the behaviour of a system under parameter variation can differ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Bradley Longstaff , Eva-Maria Graefe

Odd-frequency pairing mechanism of superconductivity has been investigated for several decades. Nevertheless, its properties, including the thermodynamic stability, have remained unclear. In particular, it has been argued that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-18 Dmitry Solenov , Ivar Martin , Dmitry Mozyrsky

We study the exponential relaxation of observables, propagated with a non-Hermitian transfer matrix, an example being out-of-time-ordered correlations (OTOC) in brickwall (BW) random quantum circuits. Until a time that scales as the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Jaš Bensa

In order to describe excitable reaction-diffusion systems, we derive a two-dimensional model with a Hopf and a semilocal saddle-node homoclinic bifurcation. This model gives the theoretical framework for the analysis of the saddle-node…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui Dilao , Andras Volford

Highly nonlinear behavior of a system of discrete sites on a lattice is observed when a specific feedback loop is introduced into models employing coupled map lattices, quantum cellular automata, or the real-valued analogues of the latter.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Siegfried Fussy , Gerhard Groessing , Herbert Schwabl

A cranking harmonic oscillator model, widely used for the physics of fast rotating nuclei and Bose-Einstein condensates, is re-investigated in the context of PT-symmetry. The instability points of the model are identified as exceptional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-27 W. D. Heiss , R. G. Nazmitdinov

Non-Hermitian two-site ``dimers'' serve as minimal models in which to explore the interplay of gain and loss in dynamical systems. In this paper, we experimentally and theoretically investigate the dynamics of non-Hermitian dimer models…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Enrico Martello , Yaashnaa Singhal , Bryce Gadway , Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah M. Price

Boundary time crystals (BTCs) are prominent examples of continuous time crystals in collective spin systems governed by Lindbladian evolution. To date, their analysis has mostly relied on semiclassical and numerical approaches. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Dominik Nemeth , Ahsan Nazir , Robert-Jan Slager , Alessandro Principi

We investigate gap-closings in one- and two-dimensional tight-binding models with two bands, containing non-Hermitian hopping terms, and open boundary conditions (OBCs) imposed along one direction. We compare the bulk OBC spectra with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Ipsita Mandal

We study the behavior of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) in a non-Hermitian quantum Ising system. We show that the OTOC can diagnose not only the ground state exceptional point, which hosts the Yang-Lee edge singularity, but also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Liang-Jun Zhai , Shuai Yin

Models such as those involving abrupt changes in the Earth's reflectivity due to ice melt and formation often use nonlinear terms (e.g., hyperbolic tangent) to model the transition between two states. For various reasons, these models are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Julie Leifeld , Kaitlin Hill , Andrew Roberts

The amplitude of resonant oscillations in a non-Hermitian environment can either decay or grow in time, corresponding to a mode with either loss or gain. When two coupled modes have a specific difference between their loss or gain, a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 N. J. Lambert , A. Schumer , J. J. Longdell , S. Rotter , H. G. L. Schwefel