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We demonstrate the existence of exceptional points of degeneracy (EPD) of periodic eigenstates in non-Hermitian coupled chains of dipolar scatterers. Guided modes supported by these structures can exhibit an EPD in their dispersion diagram…

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The concept of Wannier-Stark ladders, describing the equally spaced spectrum of a tightly-bound particle in a constant electric field, is generalized to account for arbitrary slowly-varying potentials. It is shown that an abrupt transition…

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We develop the Wigner phase space representation of a kicked particle for an arbitrary but periodic kicking potential. We use this formalism to illustrate quantum resonances and anti--resonances.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bienert , F. Haug , W. P. Schleich , M. G. Raizen

The quantum interference effects induced by the Wess-Zumino term, or Berry phase are studied theoretically in resonant quantum coherence of magnetization vector between degenerate excited states in nanometer-scale single-domain ferromagnets…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jia-Lin Zhu , Rong Lu , Su-Pen Kou , Hui Hu , Bing-Lin Gu

Energy spectra of quasi-one-dimensional quantum rings with a few electrons are studied using several different theoretical methods. Discrete Hubbard models and continuum models are shown to give similar results governed by the special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Manninen , P. Koskinen , M. Koskinen , P. Singha Deo , S. M. Reimann , S. Viefers

We study one of multidimensional inverse scattering problems for quantum systems in a constant electric field, by utilization of the Enss-Weder time-dependent method. The main purpose of this paper is to propose some methods of sharpening…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Tadayoshi Adachi , Yuta Tsujii

Brillouin zones of graphene systems possess Dirac points, where band degeneracies occur. We study the variety of (and large magnitude) phases that the electronic states can acquire when a uniform time-dependent electric field carries the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Englman , T. Vértesi

In Bose-Einstein condensates with an attractive contact interaction the stable ground state and an unstable excited state emerge in a tangent bifurcation at a critical value of the scattering length. At the bifurcation point both the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-13 Jonas Brinker , Jacob Fuchs , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner , Holger Cartarius

Wannier-Stark localization has been proven to be a resource for quantum-enhanced sensitivity for precise estimation of a gradient field. An extremely promising feature of such probes is their ability to showcase such enhanced scaling even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Saubhik Sarkar , Abolfazl Bayat

Given its well known spectral decomposition profile, the $1$-dim harmonic oscillator potential modified by an inverse square ($1$-dim angular momentum-like) contribution works as an efficient platform for probing classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Alex E. Bernardini , Caio Fernando e Silva

Exceptional points (EPs) are remarkable spectral degeneracies in a non-Hermitian system's parameter space, where both eigenvalues and eigenstates coalesce. Here, we show that in non-Hermitian molecular chiral systems the position of EPs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Nicola Mayer , Alexander Löhr , Nimrod Moiseyev , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

Two microring resonators, one with gain and one with loss, coupled to each other and to a bus waveguide, create an effective non-Hermitian potential for light propagating in the waveguide. Due to geometry, coupling for each microring…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-10 Vladimir V. Konotop , Barry C. Sanders , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

The Ising quantum chain with a peculiar twisted boundary condition is considered. This boundary condition, first introduced in the framework of the spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg quantum chain, is related to the duality transformation, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe Grimm

Exceptional points (EPs), i.e. branch point singularities of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, are ubiquitous in optics. So far, the signatures of EPs have been mostly studied assuming classical light. In the passive parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Stefano Longhi

A covariant set of linear differential field equations, describing an N=1 supersymmetric anyon system in (2+1)D, is proposed in terms of Wigner's deformation of the bosonic Heisenberg algebra. The non-relativistic ``Jackiw-Nair'' limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter A. Horvathy , Mikhail S. Plyushchay , Mauricio Valenzuela

Landau levels perturbed by a periodic potential is a prime setting to design quantum systems with exotic fractal spectra. Motivated by recent advances in twistronics, we introduce `Hofstadter quasicrystal' problem describing Landau levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Kirill Kozlov , Grigor Adamyan , Mariia Kryvoruchko , Yelizaveta Kulynych , Leonid Levitov

We investigate experimentally and analytically the coalescence of reflectionless (RL) states in symmetric complex wave-scattering systems. We observe RL-exceptional points (EPs), first, with a conventional Fabry-Perot system for which the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Clément Ferise , Philipp del Hougne , Simon Félix , Vincent Pagneux , Matthieu Davy

Exceptional points (EPs) are complex singularities of parametric linear operators where two or more eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. EPs are attracting increasing interest in mechanical metamaterials due to their strong potentials for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Weidi Wang , Alireza V. Amirkhizi

We investigate the peripheral spectrum of irreducible positive elements of an ordered Banach algebra. In particular, we give conditions under which the peripheral spectrum contains (or coincides with) the cyclic group generated by a root of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Egor A. Alekhno

Consider a linear autonomous Hamiltonian system with a time periodic bound state solution. In this paper we study the structural instability of this bound state ^M relative to time almost periodic perturbations which are small, localized…

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