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Non-Hermitian quantum theories have been applied in many other areas of physics. In this note, I will briefly review recent developments in the formulation of non-Hermitian quantum field theories, highlighting features that are unique…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Peter Millington

We show that the new quantum oscillations of the magnetization can occur when the Fermi surface consists of points (massless Dirac points) or even when the chemical potential is in a energy gap by studying the tight-binding electrons on a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-28 Keita Kishigi , Yasumasa Hasegawa

Non-Hermitian (NH) extension of quantum-mechanical Hamiltonians represents one of the most significant advancements in physics. During the past two decades, numerous captivating NH phenomena have been revealed and demonstrated, but all of…

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit a fundamental spectral dichotomy absent in Hermitian physics: the eigenvalue spectrum and the eigenstate spectrum can deviate significantly in the thermodynamic limit. We explain how non-Hermitian Hamiltonians…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Lucien Jezequel , Loïc Herviou , Jens Bardarson

As a hallmark of pure quantum effect, quantum entanglement has provided unconventional routes to condensed matter systems. Here, from the perspective of quantum entanglement, we disclose exotic quantum physics in non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Li-Mei Chen , Yao Zhou , Shuai A. Chen , Peng Ye

The effect of a non-unitary transformation on an initial Hermitian operator is studied. The initial (Hermitian) optical system is a Glauber-Fock optical lattice. The resulting non-Hermitian Hamiltonian models an anisotropic (Glauber-Fock)…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-16 Ivan Bocanegra , Héctor M. Moya-Cessa

One of the simplest non-Hermitian Hamiltonians first proposed by Schwartz (1960 {\it Commun. Pure Appl. Math.} \tb{13} 609) which may possess a spectral singularity is analyzed from the point of view of non-Hermitian generalization of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Boris F. Samsonov

Strongly-correlated systems in non-Hermitian models are an emergent area of research. Here we consider a non-Hermitian Hubbard model, where the single-particle hopping amplitudes on the lattice are not reciprocal, and provide exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-25 Stefano Longhi

We address the energy spectrum of honeycomb lattice with various defects or impurities under a perpendicular magnetic field. We use a tight-binding Hamiltonian including interactions with the nearest neighbors and investigate its energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Yoshiyuki Matsuki , Kazuki Ikeda

Fractals are self-repeating patterns which have dimensions given by fractions rather than integers. While the dimension of a system unambiguously defines its properties, a fractional dimensional system can exhibit interesting properties.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-20 Mohammed Ghadiyali , Sajeev Chacko

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

Using techniques of supersymmetric quantum mechanics, scattering properties of Hermitian Hamiltonians, which are related to non-Hermitian ones by similarity transformations, are studied. We have found that the scattering matrix of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 Boris F. Samsonov

We study an energy spectrum of electron moving under the constant magnetic field in two dimensional noncommutative space. It take place with the gauge invariant way. The Hofstadter butterfly diagram of the noncommutative space is calculated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hidenori Takahashi , Masanori Yamanaka

For a three-dimensional lattice in magnetic fields we have shown that the hopping along the third direction, which normally tends to smear out the Landau quantization gaps, can rather give rise to a fractal energy spectram akin to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Koshino , H. Aoki , K. Kuroki , S. Kagoshima , T. Osada

We demonstrate fractal noise in the quantum evolution of wave packets moving either ballistically or diffusively in periodic and quasiperiodic tight-binding lattices, respectively. For the ballistic case with various initial superpositions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. J. Amanatidis , D. E. Katsanos , S. N. Evangelou

Strong, non-perturbative interactions often lead to new exciting physics, as epitomized by emergent anyons from the Fractional Quantum Hall effect. Within the actively investigated domain of non-Hermitian physics, we discover a new family…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-29 Ruizhe Shen , Ching Hua Lee

Knots have a twisted history in quantum physics. They were abandoned as failed models of atoms. Only much later was the connection between knot invariants and Wilson loops in topological quantum field theory discovered. Here we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Haiping Hu , Erhai Zhao

In the presence of a magnetic field and an external periodic potential, the Landau level spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas exhibits a fractal pattern in the energy spectrum which is described as the Hofstadter's butterfly. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Wenchen Luo , Tapash Chakraborty

Quasicrystal is now open to search for novel topological phenomena enhanced by its peculiar structure characterized by an irrational number and high-dimensional primitive vectors. Here we extend the concept of a topological insulator with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-02 Rasoul Ghadimi , Takanori Sugimoto , Takami Tohyama

We study the Hatano-Nelson model, i.e., a one-dimensional non-Hermitian chain of spinless fermions with nearest-neighbour nonreciprocal hopping, in the presence of repulsive nearest-neighbour interactions. At half filling, we find two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Song-Bo Zhang , M. Michael Denner , Tomáš Bzdušek , Michael A. Sentef , Titus Neupert