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We study the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking in dissipationless resonant tunneling heterostructures (RTS). To describe the quantum transport in this system we apply both the nonequilibrium Green function formalism based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 A. A. Gorbatsevich , N. M. Shubin

While parity-time (PT)-symmetric systems can exhibit real spectra in the exact PT-symmetry regime, the PT-symmetry is actually not a necessary condition for the real spectra. Here we show that non-PT-symmetric photonic crystals carrying…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-24 Xiaohan Cui , Kun Ding , Jianwen Dong , C. T. Chan

Time-independent scattering methods are widely employed to analyze transport in non-Hermitian systems. Their application, however, rests on a critical yet often overlooked assumption: that an incident wave is a pure superposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Chao Zheng

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the concepts of symmetry and topology in physics. Particularly, non-Hermiticity gives rise to the ramified symmetries, where the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $H$ is transformed to $H^\dagger$. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 W. B. Rui , Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

A defining quantity of a physical system is its energy which is represented by the Hamiltonian. In closed quantum mechanical or/and coherent wave-based systems the Hamiltonian is introduced as a Hermitian operator which ensures real energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Jamal Berakdar , Xi-guang Wang

We explore an alternative way of finding the link between a PT non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and a Hermitian one. Based on the analysis of the scattering problem for an imaginary potential and its time reversal process, it is shown that any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 L. Jin , Z. Song

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

We complexify a 1-d potential which exhibits bound, reflecting and free states to study various properties of a non-Hermitian system. This potential turns out a PT-symmetric non-Hermitian potential when one of the parameters becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ananya Ghatak , Raka Dona Ray Mandal , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We theoretically study the non-Hermitian systems, the non-Hermiticity of which arises from the unequal hopping amplitude (UHA) dimers. The distinguishing features of these models are that they have full real spectra if all of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

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

A general formalism is worked out for the description of one-dimensional scattering in non-hermitian quantum mechanics and constraints on transmission and reflection coefficients are derived in the cases of P, T, or PT invariance of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 F. Cannata , J. -P. Dedonder , A. Ventura

We investigate the properties of multidimensional parity-time symmetric periodic systems whose non-Hermitian periodicity is an integer multiple of the underlying Hermitian system's periodicity. This creates a natural set of degeneracies…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-25 Alexander Cerjan , Aaswath Raman , Shanhui Fan

Disorder and coherence jointly govern wave transport in complex media. In Hermitian systems, a long-established paradigm since Anderson's work holds that disorder-induced localization relies on phase-coherent interference, and that the loss…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-07 Yudong Ren , Rui Zhao , Kangpeng Ye , Lu Zhang , Hongsheng Chen , Haoran Xue , Yihao Yang

Open, non-equilibrium systems with balanced gain and loss, known as parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric systems, exhibit properties that are absent in closed, isolated systems. A key property is the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Andrew K. Harter , Franck A. Onanga , Yogesh N. Joglekar

Light propagation in systems with anti-Hermitian coupling, described by a spinor-like wave equation, provides a general route for the observation of anti parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$ ) symmetry in optics. Remarkably, under a different…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-19 Stefano Longhi

The manipulation of mechanical waves is a long-standing challenge for scientists and engineers, as numerous devices require their control. The current forefront of research in the control of classical waves has emerged from a seemingly…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Johan Christensen , Michael R. Haberman , Ankit Srivastava , Guoliang Huang , Gal Shmuel

Sparse non-Hermitian random matrices arise in the study of disordered physical systems with asymmetric local interactions, and have applications ranging from neural networks to ecosystem dynamics. The spectral characteristics of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-21 Fernando Lucas Metz , Izaak Neri , Tim Rogers

The fundamental concept underlying topological phenomena posits the geometric phase associated with eigenstates. In contrast to this prevailing notion, theoretical studies on time-varying Hamiltonians allow for a new type of topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Pengfei Lu , Yang Liu , Qifeng Lao , Teng Liu , Xinxin Rao , Ji Bian , Hao Wu , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

Since the realization of quantum systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with parity-time (PT) symmetry, interest in non-Hermitian, quantum many-body models has steadily grown. Most studies to-date map to traditional quantum spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 Jacob Muldoon , Yogesh N. Joglekar

Quantum systems are often classified into Hermitian and non-Hermitian ones. Extraordinary non-Hermitian phenomena, ranging from the non-Hermitian skin effect to the supersensitivity to boundary conditions, have been widely explored. Whereas…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-25 Chenwei Lv , Ren Zhang , Zhengzheng Zhai , Qi Zhou