Engineering of non-Hermitian interactions in digital qudit quantum simulators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27424v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:00:01 GMT
• Title: Engineering of non-Hermitian interactions in digital qudit quantum simulators
• Abstract summary: We study the dynamics of a one-dimensional chain of qudits undergoing unitary-projective evolution.<n>We derive an analytical relation linking the monitored qutrits' evolution to a desired target non-Hermitian Hamiltonian.<n>Our scheme provides a constructive route for the realization of a large class of interacting non-Hermitian many-body Hamiltonians.
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• Abstract: Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are a fascinating class of many-body models that describe the effective dynamics of quantum systems interacting with the environment through particle, energy, or information exchange. Although their theoretical framework is well established, the controlled engineering of such Hamiltonians in the context of quantum simulations remains challenging, even more so when the non-Hermitian part describes a $k$-body interaction. Qudit quantum simulators offer a compelling framework to implement such models. We theoretically investigate the dynamics of a one-dimensional chain of qudits undergoing hybrid unitary-projective evolution, where suitably designed measurements constrain the dynamics to a Zeno subspace. As we illustrate for the case of qutrits, within the Zeno subspace the dynamics is governed by an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for an ensemble of pseudo-spins $1/2$, which can inherit non-Hermitian two-body interactions with the same connectivity as the full qutrit chain. We derive an analytical relation linking the monitored qutrits' evolution to a desired target non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and validate the effective description through numerical simulations of a representative model. Our scheme provides a constructive route for the realization of a large class of interacting non-Hermitian many-body Hamiltonians in experimentally relevant multilevel quantum platforms, including trapped ions and superconducting circuits.

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