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The study of spontaneously induced nonclassicality as a result of the interaction of an ensemble of two-level emitters embedded onto crystal structure embodying photonic band gap (PBG) is presented. The method of coherent-state propagator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Sintayehu Tesfa

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

Spectra of bulk or edges in topological insulators are often made complex by non-Hermiticity. Here, we show that symmetry protection enables entirely real spectra for both bulk and edges even in non-Hermitian topological insulators. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Kohei Kawabata , Masatoshi Sato

Fractal geometries exhibit complex structures with scale invariance self-similar pattern over various length scales. An artificially designed quantum fractal geometry embedded in a uniform magnetic flux has been explored in this study. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Biplab Pal

We introduce a two-dimensional non-Hermitian lattice model with an imaginary magnetic field and elucidate various unique features which are absent in Hermitian lattice models with real magnetic fields. To describe the imaginary magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Tomoki Ozawa , Tomoya Hayata

We study a system of a few ultracold bosons loaded into the states with orbital angular momentum $l=1$ of a one-dimensional staggered lattice of rings. Local eigenstates with winding numbers $+l$ and $-l$ form a Creutz ladder with a real…

Biphoton process is an essential benchmark for quantum information science and technologies, while great efforts have been made to improve the coherence of the system for better quantum correlations. Nevertheless, we find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Kangkang Li , Yin Cai , Jin Yan , Zhou Feng , Fu Liu , Lei Zhang , Feng Li , Yanpeng Zhang

Flat-band topologies and localizations in non-interacting systems are extensively studied in different quantum and classical-wave systems. Recently, the exploration on the novel physics of flat-band localizations and topologies in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Xiaoqi Zhou , Weixuan Zhang , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Directly solving graded materials from amplitude and phase was a method developed following transformation optics (TO), which provided reflectionless media for an incidence wave. However, this inverting method gives Hermitian media thus not…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 C. Zhang , Y. Liu , H. Lin , B. Zhou

Non-Hermitian systems have recently attracted significant attention in photonics. One of the hallmarks of these systems is the possibility of realizing asymmetric mode switching and omnipolarizer action through the dynamic encirclement of…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 J. B. Khurgin , Y. Sebbag , E. Edrei , R. Zektzer , K. Shastri , U. Levy , F. Monticone

We consider different schemes for the electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect introduced in Ref. [Phys. Rev. A $\mathbf{108}$, 062218 (2023)], exploring the phenomenon to enhance the understanding of its topological nature in spacetime. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Pablo L. Saldanha , Herman Batelaan

The optical exciton Aharonov-Bohm effect, i. e. an oscillatory component in the energy of optically active (bright) states, is investigated in nanorings. It is shown that a small effective electron mass, strong confinement of the electron,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Grochol , F. Grosse , R. Zimmermann

A detailed description of the tunneling processes within Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings containing two-dimensional quantum dots is presented. We show that the electronic propagation through the interferometer is controlled by the spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Moldoveanu , M. Ţolea , A. Aldea , B. Tanatar

We study an anisotropic two-dimensional non-Hermitian Lieb lattice, where the staggered gain and loss present in the horizontal and vertical directions, respectively. The intra-cell nonreciprocal coupling generates magnetic flux enclosed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 L. C. Xie , H. C. Wu , X. Z. Zhang , L. Jin , Z. Song

The existence of surface electromagnetic waves in the dielectric-metal interface is due to the sign change of real parts of permittivity across the interface. In this work, we demonstrate that the interface constructed by two semi-infinite…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-16 Xiaohan Cui , Kun Ding , Jian-Wen Dong , Che Ting Chan

We report a numerical study on Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect and parity selective tunneling in pn junctions based on zigzag graphene nanoribbon rings. We find that when applying a magnetic field to the ring, the AB interference can reverse the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Viet-Hung Nguyen , Yann-Michel Niquet , Philippe Dollfus

We show that high-harmonic generation (HHG) in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be efficiently controlled using the Aharanov-Bohm (AB) effect. When a static magnetic field (B) is applied along the tube, electronic wave functions acquire complex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Yuta Murakami , Kohei Nagai , Akihisa Koga

Non-Hermitian photonics based on combining loss and gain media within a single optical system provides a number of approaches to control and generate the flow of light. In this paper, we show that by introducing non-Hermitian perturbation…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-03 Anton V. Hlushchenko , Denis V. Novitsky , Vladimir R. Tuz

In this work we first show a simple approach to constructing non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with a real spectrum, which are \textit{not} obtained by a non-unitary transformation such as the imaginary gauge transformation. They are given,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Li Ge

The spectrum of excitations a two-dimensional, planar honeycomb lattice of two-level atoms coupled by the in-plane electromagnetic field may exhibit band gaps that can be opened either by applying an external magnetic field or by breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Pierre Wulles , Sergey E. Skipetrov