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Non-Hermitian systems have attracted considerable attention for their broad impacts on various physical platforms and peculiar applications. In non-Hermitian systems, both eigenvalues and eigenstates simultaneously coalesce at exceptional…

Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies in open wave systems where at least two energy levels and their corresponding eigenstates coalesce. We report evidence of the existence of EPs in 3D plasmonic nanostructures. The systems are…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-02 Ashok Kodigala , Thomas Lepetit , Boubacar Kanté

Spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter, such as an excited atom, is a fundamental process in quantum electrodynamics (QED), typically associated with exponential decay to the ground state accompanied by irreversible photon emission. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Stefano Longhi

The physics of topological singularities, namely exceptional points (EPs), has been a key to wide range of intriguing and unique physical effects in non-Hermitian systems. In this context, the mutual interactions among four coupled states…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-01 Sayan Bhattacherjee , Harsh K. Gandhi , Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh

Exceptional points (EPs) are degenerate singularities in a non-Hermitian system that can be induced by controlling the interaction between resonant photonic modes. EPs can enable unusual optical phenomena and significantly enhance the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Hoon Yeub Jeong , Yeonsoo Lim , Jungho Han , Soo-Chan An , Young Chul Jun

Controlling atom-photon interactions in engineered environments is central to quantum optics and emerging quantum technologies. Non-Hermitian (NH) photonic baths, where dissipation fundamentally reshapes spectral and dynamical properties,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Stefano Longhi

The concept of modifying molecular dynamics in strongly coupled exciton-polariton systems is an emerging topic in photonics due to its potential to produce customized chemical systems with tailored photophysical properties. However, before…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-09 Bin Liu , Vinod M. Menon , Matthew Y. Sfeir

Nonreciprocal interactions break action-reaction symmetry in systems of interacting bodies. This process inevitably introduces non-Hermitian dynamics which with its hallmark signature called exceptional points (EPs) has been a subject of…

Unlike a real magnetic field, which separates the energy levels of particle with opposite spin polarization, a complex field can lead to a special kind of spectral degeneracy, known as exceptional point (EP), at which two spin eigenmodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

We present a transmission line theory of exceptional points of degeneracy (EPD) in coupled-mode guiding structures, i.e., a theory that illustrates the characteristics of coupled electromagnetic modes under a special dispersion degeneracy…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-15 Mohamed A. K. Othman , Filippo Capolino

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

By preparing a sensor system around isolated exceptional points, one can obtain a great enhancement of the sensitivity benefiting from the non-Hermiticity. However, this comes at the cost of reduction of the flexibility of the system, which…

The dynamics of spontaneous emission of an atomic system is studied in the framework of an open quantum system. The resulting quantum master equation for the atomic system is non hermitian. The generator $\mathcal{L}$ can possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Morag Am-Shallem , Ronnie Kosloff , Nimrod Moiseyev

Exceptional points, resulting from non-Hermitian degeneracies, have the potential to enhance the capabilities of quantum sensing. Thus, finding exceptional points in different quantum systems is vital for developing such future sensing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Po-Chen Kuo , Neill Lambert , Adam Miranowicz , Hong-Bin Chen , Guang-Yin Chen , Yueh-Nan Chen , Franco Nori

We explore exceptional points (EP) in a dual-mode symmetric planar optical waveguide with transverse variation of inhomogeneous loss profile; where modal evolution alongside an EP is reported in the context of selective optical mode…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-15 Arnab Laha , Abhijit Biswas , Somnath Ghosh

Exceptional points (EPs) are special parameter values of a non-Hermitian eigenvalue problem where eigenfunctions corresponding to a multiple eigenvalue coalesce. In optics, EPs are associated with a number of counter-intuitive wave…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-08 Amgad Abdrabou , Ya Yan Lu

We propose an alternative scheme for nonreciprocal light propagation in two coupled cavities system, in which a two-level quantum emitter is coupled to one of the optical microcavities. For the case of parity-time (\textrm{PT}) system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 A. S. Zheng , G. Zhang , H. Chen , T. Mei , J. Liu

The heightened sensitivity observed in non-Hermitian systems at exceptional points (EPs) has garnered significant attention. Typical EP sensor implementations rely on precise measurements of spectra and importantly, for real time sensing…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-18 Parul Sharma , Brijesh Kumar , Nihar Ranjan Sahoo , Anshuman Kumar

We investigate the behavior of light-wave packets injected into non-Hermitian microcavity lattices under highly dissipative conditions. While all eigenstates of the lattice exhibit exponential decay, a specifically excited state maintains…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-15 Xiaohan Jiang , Yuanyuan Pan , Yang Zhang , Ye Xiong

We exploit balancing the complex optical energy between scattering and guiding states at contrived exceptional points of degeneracy in order to form an active waveguide without utilizing an active medium. This study reports peculiar…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-03 Shahram Moradi
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