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Our results show that the exponential decay of Loschmidt echo gradually disappears with increasing the strength of the imaginary part of non-Hermitian driven potential, demonstrating the suppress of the exponential instability by non-Hermiticity. The quantum diffusion exhibits the dynamical localization in momentum space, namely, the mean square of momentum increases to saturation with time evolution, which decreases with the increase of the strength of the imaginary part of the kicking. This clearly reveals the enhancement of dynamical localization by non-Hermiticity. We find, both analytically and numerically, that the quantum state are mainly populated on a very few quasieigenstates with significantly large value of the imaginary part of quasienergies. Interestingly, the average value of the inverse participation ratio of quasieigenstates decreases with the increase of the strength of the imaginary part of the kicking potential, which implies that the feature of quasieigenstates determines the stability of wavepacket\u2019s dynamics and the dynamical localization of energy diffusion.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym15010113","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,2]],"date-time":"2023-01-02T02:12:48Z","timestamp":1672625568000},"page":"113","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Dynamical Stability in a Non-Hermitian Kicked Rotor Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Wenlei","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Science, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, China"}]},{"given":"Huiqian","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Science, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Haake, F. 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