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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

Effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are obtained to describe coherent perfect absorbing and lasing boundary conditions. PT -symmetry of the Hamiltonians enables to design configurations which perfectly absorb at multiple frequencies.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 V. Achilleos , G. Theocharis , O. Richoux , V. Pagneux

We analyze the guided modes in coupled waveguides made of negative-index materials without gain or loss. We show that it supports non-Hermitian phenomenon on the existence of guided mode versus geometric parameters of the structure. The…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Li-Ting Wu , Xin-Zhe Zhang , Ru-Zhi Luo , Jing Chen

Previous research has attempted to minimize the influence of loss in reflection- and transmission-type acoustic metasurfaces. This letter shows that, by treating the acoustic metasurface as a non-Hermitian system and by harnessing loss,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Xu Wang , Xinsheng Fang , Dongxing Mao , Yun Jing , Yong Li

This paper considers the effects of small highly contrasted particles on the subwavelength resonances of a system of high-contrast resonators, with an application to sensing. The key technique is a multiple scattering expansion of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Jinghao Cao , Jörg Nick

We first show the realization of exceptional points in a non-Hermitian superconducting system based on a conventional superconductor and then demonstrate that, surprisingly, the system hosts odd-frequency pairing, solely generated by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Physical systems with loss or gain feature resonant modes that are decaying or growing exponentially with time. Whenever two such modes coalesce both in their resonant frequency and their rate of decay or growth, a so-called "exceptional…

Many novel properties of non-Hermitian systems are found at or near the exceptional points-branch points of complex energy surfaces at which eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In particular, higher-order exceptional points can result in…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-21 Shubo Wang , Bo Hou , Weixin Lu , Yuntian Chen , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

We study the elastodynamics of a periodic metastructure incorporating a defect pair that enforces a parity-time (PT) symmetry due to a judiciously engineered imaginary impedance elements - one having energy amplification (gain) and the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Yanghao Fang , Tsampikos Kottos , Ramathasan Thevamaran

Exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems have recently been shown to possess nontrivial topological properties, and to give rise to many exotic physical phenomena. However, most studies thus far have focused on isolated exceptional…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-21 Hengyun Zhou , Jong Yeon Lee , Shang Liu , Bo Zhen

Exceptional points are degeneracies in non-Hermitian systems. A two-state system with parity-time (PT) symmetry usually has only one exceptional point beyond which the eigenmodes are PT-symmetry broken. The so-called symmetry recovery,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Xu-Lin Zhang , Shubo Wang , Wen-Jie Chen , Bo Hou , C. T. Chan

Exceptional points~(EPs) appear as degeneracies in the spectrum of non-Hermitian matrices at which the eigenvectors coalesce. In general, an EP of order $n$ may find room to emerge if $2(n-1)$ real constraints are imposed. Our results show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Sharareh Sayyad , Flore K. Kunst

Recent interest in metamaterials has led to a renewed study of wave mechanics in different branches of physics. Elastodynamics involves a special intricacy, owing to a coupling between the volumetric and shear parts of the elastic waves.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Ben Lustig , Guy Elbaz , Alan Muhafra , Gal Shmuel

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 amplitude of resonant oscillations in a non-Hermitian environment can either decay or grow in time, corresponding to a mode with either loss or gain. When two coupled modes have a specific difference between their loss or gain, a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 N. J. Lambert , A. Schumer , J. J. Longdell , S. Rotter , H. G. L. Schwefel

Compared with an isolated exceptional point, exceptional surfaces in non-Hermitian systems are more robust against environment noises, fabrication errors, and experimental uncertainties. Thanks to this, exceptional surfaces can be applied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Guo-Qiang Zhang , Si-Yan Lin , Wei Feng , Yu Wang , Yang Yu , Chui-Ping Yang

The emergence of exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems represents an intriguing phenomenon characterized by the coalescence of eigenenergies and eigenstates. When a system approaches an exceptional point, it exhibits a heightened…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Shu-Xuan Wang , Zhongbo Yan

Higher-order exceptional points in the spectrum of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing open quantum or wave systems have a variety of potential applications in particular in optics and photonics. However, the experimental realization is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Jan Wiersig

Non-Hermitian systems characterized by suitable spatial distributions of gain and loss can exhibit "spectral singularities" in the form of zero-width resonances associated to real-frequency poles in the scattering operator. Here, we study…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Massimo Moccia , Giuseppe Castaldi , Andrea Alù , Vincenzo Galdi

We study symmetries of open bosonic systems in the presence of laser pumping. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing these systems can be parity-time (${\cal{PT}}$) symmetric in special cases only. Systems exhibiting this symmetry are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Ewelina Lange , Grzegorz Chimczak , Anna Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk , Karol Bartkiewicz