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Nanoplasmonics exploits the coupling between light and collective electron density oscillations (plasmons) to bypass the stringent limits imposed by diffraction. This coupling enables confinement of light to sub-wavelength volumes and is…

Exceptional points (EPs) have been extensively explored in mechanical, acoustic, plasmonic, and photonic systems. However, little is known about the role of EPs in tailoring the dynamic tunability of optical devices. A specific type of EPs…

In non-Hermitian physics, high-order exceptional points(HOEPs) with eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce are known for their enhanced sensitivity to perturbations. Typically, they exhibit eigenvalue splitting that scales as…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Teng Yin , Hao Zhang

Exceptional points (EPs) in anti-parity-time (APT)-symmetric systems have attracted significant interest. While linear APT-symmetric systems exhibit structural similarities with nonlinear dissipative systems, such as mutually…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Takahiro Uemura , Kenta Takata , Masaya Notomi

Surface plasmon polaritons (plasmons) are a combination of light and a collective oscillation of the free electron plasma at metal-dielectric interfaces. This interaction allows sub-wavelength confinement of light, beyond the diffraction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Reinier W. Heeres , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Valery Zwiller

Many new possibilities to observe and use novel physical effects are discovered at so called exceptional points (EPs). This is done by using parity-time (PT) -symmetric non-Hermitian systems and balancing gains and losses. When combined…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Jianlan Xie , Shaohua Dong , Bei Yan , Yuchen Peng , Jianjun Liu , Chengwei Qiu , Shuangchun Wen

Photonic topological edge states in one-dimensional dimer chains have long been thought to be robust to structural perturbations by mapping the topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model of a solid-state system. However, the edge states at the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Zhiwei Guo , Tengzhou Zhang , Juan Song , Haitao Jiang , Hong Chen

The non-analyticity induced by exceptional points (EPs) has manifestations not only in non-Hermitian but also in Hermitian systems. In this work, we focus on a minimal Hermitian bosonic Kitaev model to reveal the dynamical demonstration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 D. K. He , Z. Song

The concept of exceptional point (EP) is demonstrated experimentally in the case of a simple mechanical system consisting of two linearized coupled pendulums. Exceptional points correspond to specific values of the system parameters that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Nicolas Even , Benoit Nennig , Gautier Lefebvre , Emmanuel Perrey-Debain

Exceptional points (EPs) are special points in non-Hermitian systems where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In open quantum systems, these points are typically analyzed using effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians or Liouvillian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Wai Chun Wong , Bei Zeng , Jensen Li

Surface plasmon resonances of metallic nanostructures offer great opportunities to guide and manipulate light on the nanoscale. In the design of novel plasmonic devices, a central topic is to clarify the intricate relationship between the…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sanghyeon Yu , Habib Ammari

Plasmonics is a research area merging the fields of optics and nanoelectronics by confining light with relatively large free-space wavelength to the nanometer scale - thereby enabling a family of novel devices. Current plasmonic devices at…

Phase transitions can dramatically alter system dynamics, unlocking new behavior and improving performance. Exceptional points (EPs), where the eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of a coupled linear system coalesce, are particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Hanfeng Wang , Kurt Jacobs , Donald Fahey , Yong Hu , Dirk R. Englund , Matthew E. Trusheim

Quantum plasmonics is a rapidly growing field of research that involves the study of the quantum properties of light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale. Here, surface plasmons - electromagnetic excitations coupled to electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-25 M. S. Tame , K. R. McEnery , S. K. Ozdemir , J. Lee , S. A. Maier , M. S. Kim

Plasmon-polaritons are among the most promising candidates for next generation optical sensors due to their ability to support extremely confined electromagnetic fields and empower strong coupling of light and matter. Here we propose…

There is a crucial need for effective and easily dispersible colloidal microsensors able to detect local pH changes before irreversible damages caused by demineralization, corrosion, or biofilms occur. One class of such microsensors is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 C. A. S. Burel , A. Teolis , A. Alsayed , C. B. Murray , B. Donnio , R. Dreyfus

Non-Hermitian systems and their topological singularities, such as exceptional points (EPs), lines, and surfaces, have recently attracted intense interest. The investigation of these exceptional constituents has led to fruitful…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-08 Liang Fang , Kai Bai , Cheng Guo , Tian-Rui Liu , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao

Exceptional points (EPs), at which both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, are ubiquitous and unique features of non-Hermitian systems. Second-order EPs are by far the most studied due to their abundance, requiring only the tuning of…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-02 Ipsita Mandal , Emil J. Bergholtz

Exceptional points (EPs) represent non-Hermitian degeneracies where eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, giving rise to enhanced sensitivity and critically damped dynamics. We demonstrate that when an EP coincides with a dissipative phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jongjun M. Lee

We analyse two quantum systems with hidden parity-time (PT) symmetry: one is an optical device, whereas another is a superconducting microwave-frequency device. To investigate their symmetry, we introduce an equilibrium frame, in which loss…