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Distinct from closed quantum systems, non-Hermitian system can have exceptional points (EPs) where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. Recently, it has been proposed and demonstrated that EPs can enhance the performance of sensors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Mengzhen Zhang , William Sweeney , Chia Wei Hsu , Lan Yang , A. D. Stone , Liang Jiang

Complex spectra of dissipative quantum systems may exhibit degeneracies known as exceptional points (EPs). At these points the systems' dynamics may undergo drastic changes. Phenomena associated with EPs and their applications have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Andrei I. Pavlov , Yuval Gefen , Alexander Shnirman

The time evolution of a single particle in a harmonic trap with time dependent frequency omega(t) is well studied. Nevertheless here we show that, when the harmonic trap is opened (or closed) as function of time while keeping the adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Raam Uzdin , Emanuele Dalla Torre , Ronnie Kosloff , Nimrod Moiseyev

It is conjectured that the exceptional-point (EP) singularity of a one-parametric quasi-Hermitian $N$ by $N$ matrix Hamiltonian $H(t)$ can play the role of a quantum phase-transition interface connecting different dynamical regimes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Miloslav Znojil

Exceptional points are singularities of eigenvalues and eigenvectors for complex values of, say, an interaction parameter. They occur universally and are square root branch point singularities of the eigenvalues in the vicinity of level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. D. Heiss

Spectra of the second derivative operators corresponding to the special PT-symmetric point interactions are studied. The results are partly the completion of those obtained in [1]. The particular PT-symmetric point interactions causing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Petr Siegl

Exceptional points are complex-valued spectral singularities that lead to a host of intriguing features such as loss-induced transparency - a counterintuitive process in which an increase in the system's overall loss can lead to enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Konrad Tschernig , Kurt Busch , Demetrios N. Christodoulides , Armando Perez-Leija

Synthetic nonconservative systems with parity-time (PT) symmetric gain-loss structures can exhibit unusual spontaneous symmetry breaking that accompanies spectral singularity. Recent studies on PT symmetry in optics and weakly interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-12 Yuto Ashida , Shunsuke Furukawa , Masahito Ueda

Exceptional points (EPs) are non-Hermitian degeneracies, where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, which are fundamentally distinct from their Hermitian counterparts. In this study, we investigate the influence of hexagonal warping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Md Afsar Reja , Awadhesh Narayan

The non-Hermitian formalism is used at present in many papers for the description of open quantum systems. A special language developed in this field of physics which makes it difficult for many physicists to follow and to understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Hichem Eleuch , Ingrid Rotter

PT-symmetric systems can have a real spectrum even when their Hamiltonian is non-hermitian, but develop a complex spectrum when the degree of non-hermiticity increases. Here we utilize random-matrix theory to show that this spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Henning Schomerus

Exceptional points (EPs) of non-Hermitian (NH) systems have recently attracted increasing attention due to their rich phenomenology and intriguing applications. Compared to the predominantly studied second-order EPs, higher-order EPs have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Kunkun Wang , Lei Xiao , Haiqing Lin , Wei Yi , Emil J. Bergholtz , Peng Xue

Exceptional points as branch singularities describe peculiar degeneracies of non-Hermitian systems that do not obey energy conservation. This work shows that exceptional points can emerge in a topological photonic system, for example, the…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-13 Junhua Dong , Chang-Yin Ji , Qingmei Hu , Bingsuo Zou , Yongyou Zhang

Exceptional points are non-Hermitian degeneracies in open quantum and wave systems at which not only eigenenergies but also the corresponding eigenstates coalesce. This is in strong contrast to degeneracies known from conservative systems,…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-13 Jan Wiersig

Open systems with non-Hermitian degeneracies called exceptional points show a significantly enhanced response to perturbations in terms of large energy splittings induced by a small perturbation. This reaction can be quantified by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Jan Wiersig

We report on the existence of exceptional points (EPs) in single-resonance autoionization and provide analytical expressions for their positions in parameter space, in terms of the Fano asymmetry parameter. We additionally propose a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 G. Mouloudakis , P. Lambropoulos

Recently, sensors with resonances at exceptional points (EPs) have been suggested to have a vastly improved sensitivity due to the extraordinary scaling of the complex frequency splitting of the $n$ initially degenerate modes with the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 W. Langbein

Exceptional points (EPs) represent a distinct type of spectral singularity in non-Hermitian systems, and intriguing physics concepts have been studied with optical EPs recently. As a system beyond photonics, the mechanical oscillators…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-09 Ning Wu , Kaiyu Cui , Qiancheng Xu , Xue Feng , Fang Liu , Wei Zhang , Yidong Huang

Exceptional points, the spectral degeneracy points in the complex parameter space, are fundamental to non-Hermitian quantum systems. The dynamics of non-Hermitian systems in the presence of exceptional points differ significantly from those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Chon-Fai Kam , Yang Chen

Non-hermitian quantum systems can exhibit spectral degeneracies known as exceptional points, where two or more eigenvectors coalesce, leading to a non-diagonalizable Jordan block. It is known that symmetries can enhance the abundance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Robin Schäfer , Jan C. Budich , David J. Luitz