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We address the breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence observed in non-Hermitian systems, where open and periodic systems can have distinct phase diagrams. The correspondence can be completely restored by considering the Hamiltonian's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Loic Herviou , Jens H. Bardarson , Nicolas Regnault

We explore the relation between quantum geometry in non-Hermitian systems and physically measurable phenomena. We highlight various situations in which the behavior of a non-Hermitian system is best understood in terms of quantum geometry,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Anton Montag , Tomoki Ozawa

PT-symmetric systems can have a real spectrum even when their Hamiltonian is non-hermitian, but develop a complex spectrum when the degree of non-hermiticity increases. Here we utilize random-matrix theory to show that this spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Henning Schomerus

Eigenspectra that fill regions in the complex plane have been intriguing to many, inspiring research from random matrix theory to esoteric semi-infinite bounded non-Hermitian lattices. In this work, we propose a simple and robust ansatz for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Hui Jiang , Ching Hua Lee

New results obtained within the recently developed approach to supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems are presented. The method does not suffer from the sign problem in any dimensions and is capable to provide any quantum observable with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Kotanski , J. Wosiek

We overview the recent results on the shift of the spectrum and norm bounds for variation of spectral subspaces of a Hermitian operator under an additive Hermitian perturbation. Along with the known results, we present a new subspace…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Sergio Albeverio , Alexander K. Motovilov

An explicit expression is derived for the statistical description of small quantum systems, which are relatively-weakly and directly coupled to only small parts of their environments. The derived expression has a canonical form, but is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wen-ge Wang

Recent experimental advances in controlling dissipation have brought about unprecedented flexibility in engineering non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in open classical and quantum systems. A particular interest centers on the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Zongping Gong , Yuto Ashida , Kohei Kawabata , Kazuaki Takasan , Sho Higashikawa , Masahito Ueda

The interplay between superconductivity and environmental dissipation, effectively captured by non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, is a new frontier for exotic quantum phases. We explore a PT-symmetric non-Hermitian superconductor with balanced gain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-04 Xuezhu Liu , Ming Lu , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie

The single orbital, one-dimensional, Hatano-Nelson Hamiltonian provides deep insight into the physics of non-Hermiticity, resulting from asymmetric left/right hopping, and its connections to localization. In the absence of disorder, its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Jonah Huang , Rubem Mondaini , Nancy Aggarwal , Richard Scalettar

This paper investigates the thermodynamics of a large class of non-Hermitian, $PT$-symmetric oscillators, whose energy spectrum is entirely real. The spectrum is estimated by second-order WKB approximation, which turns out to be very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 H. F. Jones , E. S. Moreira

Dispersionless bands -- flatbands -- have been actively studied thanks to their interesting properties and sensitivity to perturbations, which makes them natural candidates for exotic states. In parallel non-Hermitian systems have attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Wulayimu Maimaiti , Alexei Andreanov

In non-Hermitian quasicrystals, mobility edges (ME) separating localized and extended states in complex energy plane can arise as a result of non-Hermitian terms in the Hamiltonian. Such ME are of topological nature, i.e. the energies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

We reconsider the recently proposed connection between density of states in the so-called ``non-hermitian quantum mechanics'' and the localization length for a particle moving in random potential. We argue that it is indeed possible to find…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Christopher Mudry , P. W. Brouwer , B. I. Halperin , V. Gurarie , A. Zee

In this work, we readdress the Dirac equation in the position-dependent mass (PDM) scenario. Here, one investigates the quantum dynamics of non-Hermitian fermionic particles with effective mass assuming a $(1+1)$-dimension flat spacetime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 F. C. E. Lima , L. N. Monteiro , C. A. S. Almeida

The static and dynamical properties of a one-dimensional quantum system described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian of the so-called Hatano-Nelson type; a tight-binding model with asymmetric (or non-reciprocal) hopping, are studied. The static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Takahiro Orito , Ken-Ichiro Imura

We extend the application of the techniques developed within the framework of the pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics to study a unitary quantum system described by an imaginary PT-symmetric potential v(x) having a continuous real spectrum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ali Mostafazadeh

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

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 propose that the real spectrum and the orthogonality of the states for several known complex potentials of both types, PT-symmetric and non-PT-symmetric can be understood in terms of currently proposed $\eta$-pseudo-Hermiticity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zafar Ahmed