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An exact quantum master equation formalism is constructed for the efficient evaluation of quantum non-Markovian dissipation beyond the weak system-bath interaction regime in the presence of time-dependent external field. A novel truncation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rui-Xue Xu , Ping Cui , Xin-Qi Li , Yan Mo , YiJing Yan

The existence and degeneracies of quantum exceptional, diabolical, and hybrid (i.e., diabolically degenerated exceptional) singularities of simple bosonic systems composed of up to five modes with damping and/or amplification are analyzed.…

Recently, presence of hidden singularities known as exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian quantum systems has opened up a tremendous interest in different domains of physics owing to their unique unconventional physical effects.…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-08 Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh

Among the most iconic features of classical dissipative dynamics are persistent limit-cycle oscillations and critical slowing down at the onset of such oscillations, where the system relaxes purely algebraically in time. On the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Shovan Dutta , Shu Zhang , Masudul Haque

We investigate non-Hermitian degeneracies, also known as exceptional points, in continous elastic media, and their potential application to the detection of mass and stiffness perturbations. Degenerate states are induced by enforcing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 M. I. N. Rosa , M. Mazzotti , M. Ruzzene

We propose a nonperturbative quantum dissipation theory, in term of hierarchical quantum master equation. It may be used with a great degree of confidence to various dynamics systems in condensed phases. The theoretical development is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rui-Xue Xu , Bao-Ling Tian , Jian Xu , Qiang Shi , YiJing Yan

Exceptional points (EPs) associated with a square-root singularity have been found in many non-Hermitian systems. In most of the studies, the EPs found are isotropic meaning that the same singular behavior is obtained independent of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Kun Ding , Guancong Ma , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

Recent studies on non-Hermitian optical systems having exceptional points (EPs) have revealed a host of unique characteristics associated with these singularities, including unidirectional invisibility, chiral mode switching and laser…

Exceptional points (EPs) are truly non-Hermitian (NH) degeneracies where matrices become defective. The order of such an EP is given by the number of coalescing eigenvectors. On the one hand, most work focuses on studying $N$th-order EPs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Julius T. Gohsrich , Jacob Fauman , Flore K. Kunst

The Lindblad equation, which describes Markovian quantum dynamics under dissipation, is usually derived under the weak system-bath coupling assumption. Strong system-bath coupling often leads to non-Markov evolution. The singular-coupling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-26 Takashi Mori

At high temperature, generic strongly interacting spin systems are expected to display hydrodynamics: local transport of conserved quantities, governed by classical partial differential equations like the diffusion equation. I argue that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-05 Christopher David White

Markovian master equations (formally known as quantum dynamical semigroups) can be used to describe the evolution of a quantum state $\rho$ when in contact with a memoryless thermal bath. This approach has had much success in describing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Álvaro M. Alhambra , Mischa P. Woods

A non-Hermitian complex symmetric 2x2 matrix toy model is used to study projective Hilbert space structures in the vicinity of exceptional points (EPs). The bi-orthogonal eigenvectors of a diagonalizable matrix are Puiseux-expanded in terms…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Uwe Guenther , Ingrid Rotter , Boris F. Samsonov

In multistate non-Hermitian systems, higher-order exceptional points and exotic phenomena with no analogues in two-level systems arise. A paradigm is the exceptional nexus (EX), a third-order EP as the cusp singularity of exceptional arcs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Chenhao Wang , Nan Li , Jin Xie , Cong Ding , Zhonghua Ji , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Ying Hu , Yanting Zhao

Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian systems have recently attracted wide interests and spawned intriguing prospects for enhanced sensing. However, EPs have not yet been realized in thermal atomic ensembles, which is one of the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Chao Liang , Yuanjiang Tang , An-Ning Xu , Yong-Chun Liu

Exceptional points are spectral singularities where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors collapse onto a single mode, causing the system behavior to shift abruptly and making it highly responsive to even small perturbations. Although widely…

We develop a systematic framework for determining the nature of exceptional points of $n^{\rm th}$ order (EP$_n$s) in non-Hermitian (NH) systems, represented by complex square matrices. By expressing symmetry-preserving perturbations in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Ipsita Mandal

Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian photonic systems have attracted considerable research interest due to their singular eigenvalue topology and associated anomalous physical phenomena. These properties enable diverse applications…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Kaiyuan Wang , Qi Jie Wang , Matthew R. Foreman , Yu Luo

In this contribution to the memorial issue of G\"oran Lindblad, we investigate the periodically driven Lindblad equation for a two-level system. We analyze the system using both adiabatic diagonalization and numerical simulations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Jonas Larson , Sofia Qvarfort

A wide class of exact master equations for a multiple qubit system can be explicitly constructed by using the corresponding exact non-Markovian quantum state diffusion equations. These exact master equations arise naturally from the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 Yusui Chen , J. Q. You , Ting Yu