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Exploring the deep insights into localization, disorder, and wave transport in non-Hermitian systems is an emergent area of research of relevance in different areas of physics. Engineered photonic lattices, with spatial regions of optical…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

Excited bound states are often understood within scattering based theories as resulting from the collision of a particle on a target via a short-range potential. We show that the resulting formalism is non-Hermitian and describe the Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 A. Matzkin

The control of wave scattering in complex non-Hermitian settings is an exciting subject -- often challenging the creativity of researchers and stimulating the imagination of the public. Successful outcomes include invisibility cloaks,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Jared Erb , Nadav Shaibe , Robert Calvo , Daniel Lathrop , Thomas Antonsen , Tsampikos Kottos , Steven M. Anlage

Usually duality process keeps energy spectrum invariant. In this paper, we provide a duality, which keeps entanglement spectrum invariant, in order to diagnose quantum entanglement of non-Hermitian non-interacting fermionic systems. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Li-Mei Chen , Shuai A. Chen , Peng Ye

Quantum many-body systems and quantum devices experience the detrimental effects of noise and particle losses, necessitating their treatment as open quantum systems or, in approximation, as non-Hermitian systems. These systems exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Wei-Zhu Yi , Hao-Jie Lin , Ze-Xun Lin , Wei-Qiang Chen

Lattice models with non-hermitian, parity and time-reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric Hamiltonians, realized most readily in coupled optical systems, have been intensely studied in the past few years. A $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-06 Andrew K. Harter , Yogesh N. Joglekar

We study several classes of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems, which can be expressed in terms of bilinear combinations of Euclidean Lie algebraic generators. The classes are distinguished by different versions of antilinear (PT)-symmetries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Sanjib Dey , Andreas Fring , Thilagarajah Mathanaranjan

We show that there exist non-relativistic scattering experiments which, if successful, freeze out, speed up or even reverse the free dynamics of any ensemble of quantum systems present in the scattering region. This time translation effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 David Trillo , Benjamin Dive , Miguel Navascues

Quantum inverse problem is defined as how to determine a local Hamiltonian from a single eigenstate? This question is valid not only in Hermitian system but also in non-Hermitian system. So far, most attempts are limited to Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Yin Tang , W. Zhu

Geometric phases in particle diffusion systems, an intriguing aspect enlightened from thermal systems, offer a different understanding beyond traditional Brownian motion and Fick's laws. This concept introduces a phase factor with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-07 Jinrong Liu , Liujun Xu , Gaole Dai , Gang Wang

We study the effect of PT-symmetric complex potentials on the transport properties of non-Hermitian systems, which consist of an infinite linear chain and two side-coupled defect points with PT-symmetric complex on-site potentials. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Baogang Zhu , Rong Lü , Shu Chen

Recently, a generalization of the standard optical multiport was proposed [Phys. Rev. A 93, 043845 (2016)]. These directionally unbiased multiports allow photons to reverse direction and exit backwards from the input port, providing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 David S. Simon , Casey A. Fitzpatrick , Shuto Osawa , Alexander V. Sergienko

We describe analytical and numerical results on the statistical properties of complex eigenvalues and the corresponding non-orthogonal eigenvectors for non-Hermitian random matrices modeling one-channel quantum-chaotic scattering in systems…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. V. Fyodorov , B. Mehlig

We introduce a novel linear transport equation that models the evolution of a one-particle distribution subject to free transport and two distinct scattering mechanisms: one affecting the particle's speed and the other its direction. These…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Martina Conte , Nadia Loy

We introduce a class of PT-symmetric systems which include mutually matched nonlinear loss and gain (inother words, a class of PT-invariant Hamiltonians in which both the harmonic and anharmonic parts are non-Hermitian). For a basic system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrey E. Miroshnichenko , Boris A. Malomed , Yuri S. Kivshar

Unidirectional and robust transport is generally observed at the edge of two- or three-dimensional quantum Hall and topological insulator systems. A hallmark of these systems is topological protection, i.e. the existence of propagative edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 Stefano Longhi , Davide Gatti , Giuseppe Della Valle

We employ a recently-developed transfer-matrix formulation of scattering theory in two dimensions to study a class of scattering setups modeled by real potentials. The transfer matrix for these potentials is related to the time-evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We systematically characterize the dynamical evolution of time-parity (PT )-symmetric two-level systems with spin-dependent dissipations. If the control parameters of the gap are linearly tuned with time, the dynamical evolution can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Jian-Song Pan , Fan Wu

Non-hermiticity presents a vast newly opened territory that harbors new physics and applications such as lasing and sensing. However, only non-Hermitian systems with real eigenenergies are stable, and great efforts have been devoted in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-25 Russell Yang , Jun Wei Tan , Tommy Tai , Jin Ming Koh , Linhu Li , Stefano Longhi , Ching Hua Lee

In this thesis we address a series of new problems in non-hermitian optical scattering with increasing degrees of complexity. We develop the theory of reflectionless scattering modes, introducing a novel and broad class of impedance-matched…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-10 William R. Sweeney