期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 123, 期 23, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.230401
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11674056, U1930402, 11522545, 11974331]
- Postgraduate Research AMP
- Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Provice [KYCX18_0056]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through the Program for Leading Graduate Schools (ALPS)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through KAKENHI Grant [JP19J21927]
- KAKENHI, Grants from JSPS [JP18H01145, JP15H05855]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFA0301700, 2017YFA0304100]
We experimentally simulate nonunitary quantum dynamics using a single-photon interferometric network and study the information flow between a parity-time- (PT -)symmetric non-Hermitian system and its environment. We observe oscillations of quantum-state distinguishability and complete information retrieval in the PT-symmetry-unbroken regime. We then characterize in detail critical phenomena of the information flow near the exceptional point separating the PT-unbroken and PT-broken regimes, and demonstrate power-law behavior in key quantities such as the distinguishability and the recurrence time. We also reveal how the critical phenomena are affected by symmetry and initial conditions. Finally, introducing an ancilla as an environment and probing quantum entanglement between the system and the environment, we confirm that the observed information retrieval is induced by a finite-dimensional entanglement partner in the environment. Our work constitutes the first experimental characterization of critical phenomena in PT-symmetric nonunitary quantum dynamics.
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