Quantum transport in a non-Hermitian 1D synthetic lattice: from quantum Zeno reflection to near-perfect absorption

Emmanuel. D. Mercado-Gutiérrez, W. Xu, E. Gvozdiovas +5

We experimentally explore the absorption of a propagating wavepacket impinging upon a dissipative region in an engineered quantum system. We employ a 1D non-Hermitian synthetic lat…