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In recent years, there have been intensive studies of non-Hermitian physics and parity–time (PT) symmetry due to their fundamental importance in theory and outstanding applications. A distinctive character in PT-symmetric system is phase transition (spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking), i.e. an all-real energy spectrum changes into an all-complex one when the non-Hermitian parameter exceeds a certain threshold. However, the conditions for PT-symmetric system with real energy spectrum to occur are rather restrictive. The generalization of PT-symmetric potentials to wider classes of non-PT-symmetric complex potentials with all-real energy spectra is a currently important endeavor. A simple PT-symmetric two-level Floquet quantum system is now being actively explored, because it holds potential for the realization of non-unitary single-qubit quantum gate. However, studies of the evolution dynamics of non-PT-symmetric two-level non-Hermitian Floquet quantum system are still relatively rare. In this paper, we investigate the non-Hermitian physics of a periodically driven non-PT-symmetric two-level quantum system. By phase-space analysis, we find that there exist so-called pseudo fixed points in phase space representing the Floquet solutions with fixed population difference and a time-dependent relative phase between the two levels. According to these pseudo fixed points, we analytically construct a non-unitary evolution operator and then explore the dynamic behaviors of the non-PT-symmetric two-level quantum system in different parameter regions. We confirm both analytically and numerically that the two-level non-Hermitian Floquet quantum system, although it is non-parity-time-symmetric, still features a phase transition with the quasienergy spectrum changing from all-real to all-complex energy spectrum, just like the PT symmetric system. Furthermore, we reveal that a novel phenomenon called quasi-PT symmetric dynamics occurs in the time evolution process. The quasi-PT symmetric dynamics is so named in our paper, in the sense that the time-evolution of population probabilities in the non-PT-symmetric two-level system satisfies fully the time-space symmetry (PT symmetry), while time-evolution of the quantum state (containing the phase) does not meet such a PT symmetry, due to the fact that time-evolution of the phases of the probability amplitudes on the two levels violates the requirement for the PT symmetry. -
Keywords:
- parity-time symmetry /
- periodically driven two-level systems /
- non-Hermitian physics /
- dynamical evolution
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图 1 不同系统参数下的相空间轨道(
$ \omega = 2, \nu = 1 $ ) (a)${\gamma _0} = $ $ 1,\; {\gamma _1} = 0.5$ ; (b)${\gamma _0} = 1,\; {\gamma _1} = 1$ ; (c)${\gamma _0} = 1, \;{\gamma _1} = 2$ ; (d)${\gamma _0} = 2,\; {\gamma _1} = 0.5$ Figure 1. Phase-space trajectories with different system parameters(
$ \omega = 2, \nu = 1 $ ): (a)${\gamma _0} = 1,\; {\gamma _1} = 0.5$ ; (b)${\gamma _0} = 1, $ $ \;{\gamma _1} = 1$ ; (c)${\gamma _0} = 1, \;{\gamma _1} = 2$ ; (d)${\gamma _0} = 2,\; {\gamma _1} = 0.5$ .
图 2 非厄米系统(1)在周期驱动(7)作用下共振(
$2{\gamma _0} = $ $ \omega$ )情况时的准能谱的实部(a)和虚部(b)随参数${\gamma _1}/\nu $ 的关系. 红线和蓝线代表直接对角化一个驱动周期的时间演化算符的数值结果, 圆圈代表经典相图中赝定点对应的准能量解析结果. 参数取为${\gamma _0} = 1,\; \omega = 2$ Figure 2. Real (a) and imaginary (b) parts of the quasienergies as a function of
${\gamma _1}/\nu $ for the non-Hermitian system (1) subject to a periodic modulation (7) in the resonant ($2{\gamma _0} = $ $ \omega$ ) case. The red and blue lines denote the numerical results of quasienergies computed through direct diagonalization of the time-evolution operator over one period of the driving, while the circles denote exact analytical results of quasienergies corresponding to the pseudo fixed points in phase space. The system parameters are set as${\gamma _0} = 1, \;\omega = 2$ 
图 3 在共振情况下的系统动力学(
$\tfrac{{{\gamma _1}}}{\nu } < 1$ ) (a) 两能级上的占有概率${\left| {{\psi _n}} \right|^2}$ ($n = 1, 2$ )随时间演化; (b)相位${\theta _n}$ ($n = $ $ 1, 2$ )随时间演化; (c)以$ {t_0} = - 0.605 $ 为时间反演点的$ {\theta _1}({t_0} + t) + {\theta _2}({t_0} - t) $ 演化. 系统参数取为${\gamma _0} = 1, \;{\gamma _1} = 0.5,\; $ $ \omega = 2,\; \nu = 1$ 初态为${\psi _1}(0) = 1, {\psi _2}(0) = 0$ Figure 3. System dynamics for the resonance case with the non-Hermitian parameters
$\tfrac{{{\gamma _1}}}{\nu } < 1$ , starting the system with the state${\psi _1}(0) = 1,\; {\psi _2}(0) = 0$ : (a) Time evolutions of the occupation probabilities${\left| {{\psi _1}} \right|^2}$ and${\left| {{\psi _2}} \right|^2}$ ; (b) time evolutions of phases${\theta _1}(t)$ and${\theta _2}(t)$ ; (c) time evolution of the sum of phases,$ {\theta _1}({t_0} + t) + {\theta _2}({t_0} - t) $ . Here we choose the time-inversion point$ {t_0} = - 0.605 $ . The system parameters are${\gamma _0} = 1,\; {\gamma _1} = 0.5,\; \omega = 2, \;\nu = 1$ .
图 4 在共振情况下的系统动力学(
${{{\gamma _1}}}/{\nu } = 1$ ) (a) 两能级上的占有概率${\left| {{\psi _n}} \right|^2}$ ($n = 1, 2$ )随时间演化;(b)相位${\theta _n}$ ($n = $ $ 1, 2$ )随时间演化; (c)以$ {t_0} = - 0.5 $ 为时间反演点的$ {\theta _1}({t_0} + t) + {\theta _2}({t_0} - t) $ 演化. 系统参数取为${\gamma _0} = 1,\; {\gamma _1} = 1,\; $ $ \omega = 2,\; \nu = 1$ 初态为${\psi _1}(0) = 1,\; {\psi _2}(0) = 0$ Figure 4. System dynamics for the resonance case with the non-Hermitian parameters
${{{\gamma _1}}}/{\nu } = 1$ , starting the system with the state${\psi _1}\left( 0 \right) = 1,\; {\psi _2}\left( 0 \right) = 0$ : (a) Time evolutions of the occupation probabilities${\left| {{\psi _1}} \right|^2}$ and${\left| {{\psi _2}} \right|^2}$ ; (b) time evolutions of phases${\theta _1}(t)$ and${\theta _2}(t)$ ; (c) time evolution of the sum of phases,$ {\theta _1}({t_0} + t) + {\theta _2}({t_0} - t) $ . Here the time-inversion point is given by$ {t_0} = - 0.5 $ . The system parameters are${\gamma _0} = 1,\; {\gamma _1} = 1,\; \omega = 2, \;\nu = 1$ .
图 5 在共振情况下的系统动力学.
${{{\gamma _1}}}/{\nu } > 1$ . (a) 两能级上的占有概率${\left| {{\psi _n}} \right|^2}$ ($n = 1, 2$ )随时间演化. (b)相位${\theta _n}$ ($n = $ $ 1, 2$ )随时间演化. (c)以$ {t_0} = - 0.380 $ 为时间反演点的$ {\theta _1}({t_0} + t) + {\theta _2}({t_0} - t) $ 演化. 系统参数取为${\gamma _0} = 1,\;{\gamma _1} = 2, \; $ $ \omega = 2,\; \nu = 1$ 初态为${\psi _1}(0) = 1,\; {\psi _2}(0) = 0$ Figure 5. System dynamics for the resonance case with the non-Hermitian parameters
${{{\gamma _1}}}/{\nu } > 1$ , starting the system with the state${\psi _1}(0) = 1, {\psi _2}(0) = 0$ . (a) Time evolutions of the occupation probabilities${\left| {{\psi _1}} \right|^2}$ and${\left| {{\psi _2}} \right|^2}$ . (b) Time evolutions of phases${\theta _1}(t)$ and${\theta _2}(t)$ . (c) Time evolution of the sum of phases,$ {\theta _1}({t_0} + t) + {\theta _2}({t_0} - t) $ . Here the time-inversion point is given by$ {t_0} = - 0.380 $ . The system parameters are${\gamma _0} = 1,\; {\gamma _1} = 2,\; \omega = 2,\;\nu = 1$ . -
[1] Bender C M, Boettcher S 1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 5243
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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