How we came up with the Hatano-Nelson model

Datum

25.06.2025

Zeit

11:00 - 12:30

Sprecher

Naomichi Hatano

Zugehörigkeit

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Physik

Andere Themen

Physik

Beschreibung

The purpose of this talk is to encourage postdocs and graduate students by telling them my own experience as a postdoc. When I was around 30 years old, I spent one year as a postdoc in Harvard University and published a paper entitled “Localization transitions in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics” in 1996 with David R. Nelson. This is probably the first paper that has “non-Hermitian quantum mechanics” in the title. We proposed a model now called the Hatano-Nelson model. The paper was not very popular for quite a long time but get many citations recently after the model was recognized as a minimal non-Hermitian topological model. I tell you how we came up with the Hatano-Nelson model then, putting emphasis on my thought as to what aspects of research activities are critical to obtaining good output.

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