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Recent research in light scattering has prompted a re-evaluation of complex quantities, particularly in the context of complex frequency signals, which exhibit exponential growth or decay unlike traditional harmonic signals. We introduce a…

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In closed quantum systems, a dynamical phase transition is identified by nonanalytic behaviors of the return probability as a function of time. In this work, we study the nonunitary dynamics following quenches across exceptional points in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Longwen Zhou , Qing-hai Wang , Hailong Wang , Jiangbin Gong

The physical aspects of partially coherent radiation interacting with deterministic non-Hermitian periodic materials remain largely unexplored in the statistical optics literature. Here, we consider the scattering of partially coherent…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Paulo A. Brandão , S. B. Cavalcanti

Exceptional points (EPs) are distinct characteristics of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. In this study, we focus on EPs in continuous systems rather than discrete non-Hermitian systems, which are…

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We examine analytically and numerically the effect of fractionality on a saturable bulk and surface impurity embedded in a 1D lattice. We use a fractional Laplacian introduced previously by us, and by the use of lattice Green functions we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-21 Mario I. Molina

Helical edge states of two-dimensional topological insulators show a gap in the density of states (DOS) and suppressed conductance in the presence of ordered magnetic impurities. Here we will consider the dynamical effects on the DOS and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Simon Wozny , Martin Leijnse , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit nontrivial band topology and a strong sensitivity of the energy spectrum on the boundary conditions. Remarkably, a macroscopic number of bulk states get squeezed toward the lattice edges under open boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

Real-valued band structures are foundational to analyzing periodic systems within the Hermitian description and have been experimentally well-established over recent decades. In contrast, non-Hermitian systems exhibit complex band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jia-Xin Zhong , Jing Lin , Kai Chen , Jing Lu , Kun Ding , Yun Jing

The combination of non-Hermitian physics and strong correlations can give rise to new effects in open quantum many-body systems with balanced gain and loss. We propose a generalized Anderson impurity model that includes non-Hermitian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-23 Jose A. S. Lourenco , Ronivon L. Eneias , Rodrigo G. Pereira

Non-Hermitian effects have emerged as a new paradigm for the manipulation of phases of matter that profoundly changes our understanding of non-equilibrium systems, introducing novel concepts such as exceptional points and spectral topology,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Zhen Li , Li-Wei Wang , Xulong Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Guancong Ma , Jian-Hua Jiang

The intricate complex eigenvalues of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians manifest as Riemann surfaces in control parameter spaces. At the exceptional points (EPs), the degeneracy of both eigenvalues and eigenvectors introduces noteworthy topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Sen Zhang , Yangyu Huang , Lei Yu , Kaixuan He , Ning Zhou , Dingbang Xiao , Xuezhong Wu , Franco Nori , Hui Jing , Xin Zhou

We study the formation of band gap bound states induced by a non-Hermitian impurity embedded in a Hermitian system. We show that a pair of bound states emerges inside the band gap when a parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) imaginary potential is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 K. L. Zhang , X. M. Yang , Z. Song

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

We use the generalized Bloch theorem formalism of Alase {\it et al.} [{\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 117} 076804 (2016)] to analyze simple one-dimensional tight-binding lattice systems connected by Hermitian bonds (all with the same hopping…

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Genuinely non-Hermitian topological phases can be realized in open systems with sufficiently strong gain and loss; in such phases, the Hamiltonian cannot be deformed into a gapped Hermitian Hamiltonian without energy bands touching each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein , Gil Refael , Bernd Rosenow

In non-Hermitian systems, it is a counterintuitive feature of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) that the energy spectrum and eigenstates can be totally different under open or periodic boundary conditions, suggesting that non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Fei Song , Hong-Yi Wang , Zhong Wang

We show for generic quantum non-Hermitian tight-binding models that relaxation timescales of local observables are not controlled by the localization length $\xi_{\rm loc}$ associated with the non-Hermitian skin effect, contrary to popular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Gideon Lee , Alexander McDonald , Aashish Clerk

We study the localization transition in periodically driven one-dimensional non-Hermitian lattices where the piece-wise two-step drive is constituted by uniform coherent tunneling and incommensurate onsite gain and loss. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 C. M. Dai , Yunbo Zhang , Xuexi Yi

Non-Hermitian systems have been at the center of intense research for over a decade, partly due to their nontrivial energy topology formed by intersecting Riemann manifolds with branch points known as exceptional points (EPs). This spectral…