24–25 Mar 2025
National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Phase transition of non-Hermitian systems using variational quantum techniques

24 Mar 2025, 12:25
20m
National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton

National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton

Southampton, UK

Speaker

James Hancock (University of Plymouth)

Description

The motivation for studying non-Hermitian systems and the role of {PT}-symmetry is discussed. We investigate the use of a quantum algorithm to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, with applications to quantum phase transitions. We use a recently proposed variational algorithm.

Author

James Hancock (University of Plymouth)

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