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The non-Hermitian extension of quasicrystals (QC) are highly tunable system for exploring novel material phases. While extended-localized phase transitions have been observed in one dimension, quantum phase transition in higher dimensions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Xianqi Tong , Su-Peng Kou

We study the dissipative dynamics of a one-dimensional bosonic system described in terms of the bipartite Bose-Hubbard model with alternating gain and loss. This model exhibits the $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry under some specific conditions and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-07 Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Doru Sticlet , Balázs Dóra , Gergely Zaránd

Phase transitions are fundamental in nature. A small parameter change near a critical point leads to a qualitative change in system properties. Across a regular phase transition, the system remains in thermal equilibrium and, therefore,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Jingwen Li , Michael Turaev , Masakazu Matsubara , Kristin Kliemt , Cornelius Krellner , Shovon Pal , Manfred Fiebig , Johann Kroha

The phenomenon of PT (parity- and time-reversal) symmetry breaking is conventionally associated with a change in the complex mode spectrum of a non-Hermitian system that marks a transition from a purely oscillatory to an exponentially…

One-dimensional non-Hermitian quasicrystals with parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetry can simultaneously exhibit localization-delocalization transition, topological phase transition, and PT-symmetry-breaking transition. This motivates…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-26 Guangjie Zhang , Bing Shao , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong , Weiwei Zhu

Recent experimental studies on strongly disordered indium oxide films have revealed an unusual first-order quantum phase transition between the superconducting and insulating states (SIT). This transition is characterized by a discontinuous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-28 Igor Poboiko , Mikhail Feigel'man

We present a phase space study of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry based on the Wigner distribution function. For an arbitrary complex potential, we derive a generalized continuity equation for the Wigner function flow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ludmila Praxmeyer , Popo Yang , Ray-Kuang Lee

The discovery of topological phases in non-Hermitian open classical and quantum systems challenges our current understanding of topological order. Non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique features with no counterparts in topological Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Stefano Longhi

We study non-Hermitian Josephson junctions formed by superconductors with a finite phase difference under non-Hermiticity, which naturally appears due to coupling to normal reservoirs. Depending on the structure of non-Hermiticity, captured…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-13 Jorge Cayao , Masatoshi Sato

We consider a dissipative tight-binding chain. The dissipation manifests as tunneling into/out of the chain from/to a memoryless environment. The evolution of the system is described by the Lindblad equation. Already infinitesimally small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 M. V. Medvedyeva , M. T. Čubrović , S. Kehrein

We study the dynamics of a system of coupled oscillators of distributed natural frequencies, by including the features of both thermal noise, parametrized by a temperature, and inertial terms, parametrized by a moment of inertia. For a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-11 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo

Unitary and dissipative models of quantum dynamics are linear maps on the space of states or density matrices. This linearity encodes the superposition principle, a key feature of quantum theory. However, this principle can break down in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Orion Lee , Qian Cao , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Kater Murch

First-order irreversible phase transitions (IPT's) between an active regime and an absorbing state are studied in two models by means of both simulations and mean-field stability analysis. Hysteresis around coexistence is the result of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto A. Monetti , Alejandro Rozenfeld , Ezequiel V. Albano

We study a non-Hermitian two-level system with square-wave modulated dissipation and coupling. Based on the Floquet theory, we achieve an effective Hamiltonian from which the boundaries of the $\mathcal{PT}$ phase diagram are captured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Liwei Duan , Yan-Zhi Wang , Qing-Hu Chen

We study the quantum phase transition of the one-dimensional phase model in the presence of dissipative frustration, provided by an interaction of the system with the environment through two non-commuting operators. Such a model can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Dominik Maile , Sabine Andergassen , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

Despite its non-Hermitian nature, the transverse optical beam shift exhibits both real eigenvalues and non-orthogonal eigenstates. To explore this unexpected similarity to typical PT (parity-time)-symmetric systems, we first categorize the…

While non-Hermitian systems are normally constructed through incoherent coupling to a larger environment, recent works have shown that under certain conditions coherent couplings can be used to similar effect. We show that this new paradigm…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Noah Flemens , Jeffrey Moses

We discover a deep connection between parity-time (PT) symmetric optical systems and quantum transport in one-dimensional fermionic chains in a two-terminal open system setting. The spectrum of one dimensional tight-binding chain with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Madhumita Saha , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Manas Kulkarni , Archak Purkayastha

The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian describes the effective dynamics of a system coupled to a continuously measured bath, and can exhibit anti-unitary symmetries that give rise to exceptional points and broken phases with complex eigenvalues,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sejal Ahuja , Keshav Das Agarwal , Aditi Sen De

Investigating the robustness of non-reciprocity in the presence of competing interactions is central to understanding non-reciprocal quantum matter. In this work, we use reservoir engineering to induce non-reciprocal hopping and pairing in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Pietro Brighi , Andreas Nunnenkamp