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Exceptional points (EPs), the degeneracy point of non-Hermitian systems, have recently attracted great attention after its ability to greatly enhance the sensitivity of micro-cavities is demonstrated experimentally. Unlike the usual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Geng-Li Zhang , Di Liu , Xi-Ming Wang , Man-Hong Yung

I will provide a pedagogical introduction to non-Hermitian quantum systems that are PT-symmetric, that is they are left invariant under a simultaneous parity transformation (P) and time-reversal (T). I will explain how generalised versions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Andreas Fring

Quantum algorithms on the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are expected to simulate quantum systems that are classically intractable to demonstrate quantum advantages. However, the non-negligible gate error on the NISQ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Joseph C. Aulicino , Trevor Keen , Bo Peng

The Hilbert space in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics is formulated as a linear vector space with a dynamic inner product. The most general PT-symmetric matrix Hamiltonians are constructed for 2*2 and 3*3 cases. In the former case, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Qing-hai Wang , Song-zhi Chia , Jie-hong Zhang

Quantum computers are the ideal platform for quantum simulations. Given enough coherent operations and qubits, such machines can be leveraged to simulate strongly correlated materials, where intricate quantum effects give rise to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers , Frank K. Wilhelm

Non-Hermitian systems based on parity-time (PT) symmetry reveal rich physics beyond the Hermitian regime. So far, realizations of PT-symmetric systems have been limited to the spatial domain. Here we theoretically and experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-12 Fangxing Zhang , Yaming Feng , Li Ge , Wenjie Wan

We present a quantum computational framework using Hamiltonian Truncation (HT) for simulating real-time scattering processes in $(1+1)$-dimensional scalar $\phi^4$ theory. Unlike traditional lattice discretisation methods, HT approximates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 James Ingoldby , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko , Simon Williams , Matthew Wingate

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate highly entangled quantum systems, offering a solution to challenges facing classical simulation of Quantum Field Theories (QFTs). This paper presents an alternative to traditional methods for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 James Ingoldby , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko , Simon Williams

In complete analogy with the classical situation (which is briefly reviewed) it is possible to define bi-Hamiltonian descriptions for Quantum systems. We also analyze compatible Hermitian structures in full analogy with compatible Poisson…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Marmo , G. Scolarici , A. Simoni , F. Ventriglia

Analogue Hamiltonian simulation is a promising near-term application of quantum computing and has recently been put on a theoretical footing. In Hamiltonian simulation, a physical Hamiltonian is engineered to have identical physics to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Harriet Apel , Toby Cubitt

Analog quantum simulation offers a hardware-specific approach to studying quantum dynamics, but mapping a model Hamiltonian onto the available device parameters requires matching the hardware dynamics. We introduce a paradigm for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Paul Kairys , Travis S. Humble

Quantum Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing and forms the basis for many quantum algorithms. Benchmarking them is an important gauge of progress in quantum computing technology. We present a…

We show how a quantum computer may efficiently simulate a disordered Hamiltonian, by incorporating a pseudo-random number generator directly into the time evolution circuit. This technique is applied to quantum simulation of few-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-25 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo F. Bedaque , Scott Lawrence

We consider the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum field theory on the noncommutative spacetime with angular twist and construct its pseudo-Hermitian interpretation. We explore the differences between internal and spatial parities in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-25 Oleg O. Novikov

We have developed a concrete quantum simulation scheme and experimentally simulated a pairing model on an NMR quantum computer. The design of our experiment includes choosing an appropriate initial state in order to make our scheme scalable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Dong Yang , An Min Wang , Feng Xu , Jiangfeng Du

We investigate the power of quantum systems for the simulation of Hamiltonian time evolutions on a cubic lattice under the constraint of translational invariance. Given a set of translationally invariant local Hamiltonians and short range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christina V. Kraus , Michael M. Wolf , J. Ignacio Cirac

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with complex eigenenergies are useful tools for describing the dynamics of open quantum systems. In particular, parity and time (PT) symmetric Hamiltonians have generated interest due to the emergence of…

We study the time evolution of a PT-symmetric, non-Hermitian quantum system for which the associated phase space is compact. We focus on the simplest non-trivial example of such a Hamiltonian, which is linear in the angular momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Iván F. Valtierra , Mario Gaeta , Adrian Ortega , Thomas Gorin

We discuss encodings of fermionic many-body systems by qubits in the presence of symmetries. Such encodings eliminate redundant degrees of freedom in a way that preserves a simple structure of the system Hamiltonian enabling quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Sergey Bravyi , Jay M. Gambetta , Antonio Mezzacapo , Kristan Temme

The non-Hermitian paradigm of quantum systems displays salient features drastically different from Hermitian counterparts. In this work, we focus on one such aspect, the difference of evolving quantum ensembles under $H_{\mathrm{nh}}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Soumik Bandyopadhyay , Philipp Hauke , Sudipto Singha Roy