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Non-Hermitian systems have recently attracted broad interest and exhibited intriguing physical phenomena, in which the non-Hermitian skin effect is one of the most remarkable quantum phenomena desiring detailed investigations and has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Mengjie Yang , Luojia Wang , Xiaoxiong Wu , Han Xiao , Danying Yu , Luqi Yuan , Xianfeng Chen

In this work we propose a general theoretical approach to the modelling of complex dispersion characteristics of leaky optical modes operating in photonic crystal slab composed of two high-index contrast gratings, beyond the protection of…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-05 X. Letartre , S. Mazauric , S. Cueff , T. Benyattou , H S. Nguyen , P. Viktorovitch

We demonstrate that a photonic gauge potential, which arises from the phase degree of freedom in dynamic refractive-index modulation and hence is achormatic, can be used to achieve a broadband optical switch using the configuration of a…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-02 Ian A. D. Williamson , Shanhui Fan

We show that an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring with asymmetric electron injection can act as a coherent detector of electron dephasing. The presence of a dephasing source in one of the two arms of a moderately-to-highly asymmetric ring changes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 E. Strambini , L. Chirolli , V. Giovannetti , F. Taddei , R. Fazio , V. Piazza , F. Beltram

Photonic gauge potentials are crucial for manipulating charge-neutral photons like their counterpart electrons in the electromagnetic field, allowing analogous Aharonov-Bohm effect in photonics and paving the way for critical applications…

Open systems feature a variety of phenomena that arise from non-Hermitian physics. Recent theoretical studies have offered much insights into these phenomena through the non-Bloch band theory, though many of the theory's key features are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Mu Yang , Yue Li , Mingtao Xu , Wei Yi , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We study the possibility of asymmetric transmission induced by a non-Hermitian scattering center embedded in a one-dimensional waveguide, motivated by the aim of realizing quantum diode in a non-Hermitian system. It is shown that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-04 X. Q. Li , X. Z. Zhang , G. Zhang , Z. Song

One of the exceptional features of non-Hermitian systems is the unidirectional wave interactions. Simultaneous modulation of the real and the imaginary part of the interaction potentials (of the refractive index and the gain/loss in the…

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time (PT) symmetric complex potentials can exhibit a phase transition when the degree of non-Hermiticity is increased. Two eigenstates coalesce at a transition point, which is known as the exceptional point…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-07 Kun Ding , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

Non-Hermitian systems generally host complex spectra that bring unique spectral topologies, leading to the spectral braiding and non-Hermitian skin effect. The experimental exploration of non-Hermitian physics is mainly concentrated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Xiangru Chen , Jien Wu , Xingyu Chen , Zhenhang Pu , Yejian Hu , Jiuyang Lu , Manzhu Ke , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

We study the Coulomb interaction-induced Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in the linear response transport through a remote quantum dot which has no tunnel coupling but has Coulomb coupling with the quantum dot embedded in an AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura

Non-Abelian gauge fields are versatile tools for synthesizing topological phenomena but have so far been mostly studied in Hermitian systems, where gauge flux has to be defined from a closed loop in order for gauge fields, whether Abelian…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-31 Zehai Pang , Jinbing Hu , Yi Yang

We develop a generalized non-Hermitian Hamiltonian formalism for guided resonances in photonic crystal slabs, derived directly from Maxwell's equations through a systematic guided-mode expansion. By expanding the electromagnetic fields over…

We study transport of interacting bosons through an Aharonov-Bohm cage - a building block of flat band networks - with coherent pump and sink leads. In the absence of interactions the cage is insulating due to destructive interference. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 A. R. Kolovsky , P. S. Muraev , S. Flach

The physics in flat bands has emerged as an essential field in condensed matter physics where a plethora of phenomena can be unveiled, such as anomalous transport properties, superconductivity dominated by quantum geometry or exotic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-02 Biplab Pal , Maxime Thumin , Georges Bouzerar

Imposing chirality on a physical system engenders unconventional energy flow and responses, such as the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the topological quantum Hall phase for electrons in a symmetry-breaking magnetic field. Recently, great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Javier del Pino , Jesse J. Slim , Ewold Verhagen

The beam-splitter (BS) is one of the most common and important components in modern optics, and lossless BS which features unitary transformation induces Hermitian evolution of light. However, the practical BS based on the conversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Rong Wen , Chang-Ling Zou , Xinyu Zhu , Peng Chen , Z. Y. Ou , J. F. Chen , Weiping Zhang

Flat-band lattices hosting compact localized states are highly sensitive to external modulation, and the tailored design of a perturbation to imprint specific features becomes relevant. Here we show that periodic driving in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Aamna Ahmed , Mónica Benito , Beatriz Pérez-González

Non-Hermitian exceptional points (EPs) represent a special type of degeneracy where not only the eigenvalues coalesce, but also the eigenstates tend to collapse on each other. Recent studies have shown that in the presence of an EP,…

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