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The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) reveals local geometric properties and associated topological information of quantum states. Here a generalization of the QGT to mixed quantum states at finite temperatures based on the…

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Symmetry plays fundamental role in physics and the nature of symmetry changes in non-Hermitian physics. Here the symmetry-protected scattering in non-Hermitian linear systems is investigated by employing the discrete symmetries that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 L. Jin , Z. Song

Open quantum systems described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian exhibit rich dynamics due to the topology of their complex energy spectrum. By encircling an exceptional point degeneracy, this topology allows for topological state transport,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Serra Erdamar , Maryam Abbasi , Weijian Chen , Niklas Hörnedal , Aurélia Chenu , Kater W. Murch

The concept of quantum geometry for single-particle states has revolutionized our interpretation of several emergent properties in condensed matter. However, a description of the quantum geometry for interacting particles and an…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 MingRui Lai , Fengyuan Xuan , Su Ying Quek

Quasi-Hermitian quantum systems, including $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric ones, can be mapped to equivalent Hermitian systems via a similarity transformation that redefines the inner product with a positive-definite metric operator. Although an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Ming-Zhang Wang , Xu-Yang Hou , Hao Guo

Entanglement is one of the key feature of quantum world that has no classical counterpart. This arises due to the linear superposition principle and the tensor product structure of the Hilbert space when we deal with multiparticle systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-14 Arun Kumar Pati

We introduce a quantum geometric tensor in a curved space with a parameter-dependent metric, which contains the quantum metric tensor as the symmetric part and the Berry curvature corresponding to the antisymmetric part. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Joan A. Austrich-Olivares , J. David Vergara

Non-Hermitian matrices are ubiquitous in the description of nature ranging from classical dissipative systems, including optical, electrical, and mechanical metamaterials, to scattering of waves and open quantum many-body systems. Seminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , J. Lukas K. König , Lukas Rødland , Marcus Stålhammar , Emil J. Bergholtz

One of the key features of information geometry in the classical setting is the existence of a metric structure and a family of connections on the space of probability distributions. The uniqueness of the Fisher--Rao metric and the duality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Kunal Pal

In contrast to classical systems, actual implementation of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian dynamics for quantum systems is a challenge because the processes of energy gain and dissipation are based on the underlying Hermitian system-environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 R. Grimaudo , A. Messina , A. Sergi , N. V. Vitanov , S. N. Filippov

Unconventional properties of non-Hermitian systems, such as the existence of exceptional points, have recently been suggested as a resource for sensing. The impact of noise and utility in quantum regimes however remains unclear. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Hoi-Kwan Lau , Aashish A. Clerk

The complete quantum metric of a parametrized quantum system has a real part (usually known as the Provost-Vallee metric) and a symplectic imaginary part (known as the Berry curvature). In this paper, we first investigate the relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Balázs Hetényi , Péter Lévay

We show that non-Hermitian engineering can play a positive role in quantum systems. This is in contrast to the widely accepted notion that optical losses are a foe that must be eliminated or, at least, minimized. We take advantage of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Nicolás Quesada , Eugene Adjei , Ramy El-Ganainy , Agata M. Brańczyk

A non-Hermitian operator may serve as the Hamiltonian for a unitary quantum system, if we can modify the Hilbert space of state vectors of the system so that it turns into a Hermitian operator. If this operator is time-dependent, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Ali Mostafazadeh

A non-commuting measurement transfers, via the apparatus, information encoded in a system's state to the external "observer". Classical measurements determine properties of physical objects. In the quantum realm, the very same notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Bartłomiej Gardas , Sebastian Deffner , Avadh Saxena

Non-Hermitian physics predicts open quantum system dynamics with unique topological features such as exceptional points and the non-Hermitian skin effect. We show that this new paradigm of topological systems can serve as probes for bulk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Saubhik Sarkar , Francesco Ciccarello , Angelo Carollo , Abolfazl Bayat

Non-Hermitian band theory distinguishes between line gaps and point gaps. While point gaps can give rise to intrinsic non-Hermitian band topology without Hermitian counterparts, line-gapped systems can always be adiabatically deformed to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Frank Schindler , Kaiyuan Gu , Biao Lian , Kohei Kawabata

The extraction of energy is one of fundamental challenges in realizing quantum batteries (QBs). Here, we propose two wireless transfer schemes with parity-time symmetries to efficiently extract the energy stored in non-Hermitian QBs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Fang-Mei Yang , Fu-Quan Dou

Examples are given of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operators which have a real spectrum. Some of the investigated operators are expressed in terms of the generators of the Weil-Heisenberg algebra. It is argued that the existence of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 João da Providência , Natália Bebiano , João Pinheiro da Providência

We study non-Hermitian quantum mechanics in the presence of a minimal length. In particular we obtain exact solutions of a non-Hermitian displaced harmonic oscillator and the Swanson model with minimal length uncertainty. The spectrum in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 T. K. Jana , P. Roy