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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

The zero-mode corner states in the gap of two-dimensional non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model are robust to infinitesimal perturbations that preserve chiral symmetry. However, we demonstrate that this general belief is no longer valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Xue-Min Yang , Hao Lin , Jian Li , Jia-Ji Zhu , Jun-Li Zhu , Hong Wu

Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies of non-Hermitian operators where, in addition to the eigenvalues, corresponding eigenmodes become degenerate. Classical and quantum photonic systems with EPs have attracted tremendous attention due…

In recent years, particular physical phenomena enabled by non-Hermitian metamaterial systems have attracted significant research interests. In this paper, a non-Hermitian three-dimensional metamaterial near the exceptional point (EP) is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Yanjie Wu , Ding Zhang , Qiuyu Li , Hai Lin , Xintong Shi , Jie Xiong , Haoquan Hu , Jing Tian , Bian Wu , Y. Liu

Exceptional points (EPs) are singularities in the spectra of non-Hermitian operators, where eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. Recently, open quantum systems have been increasingly explored as EP testbeds due to their natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Jhen-Dong Lin , Po-Chen Kuo , Neill Lambert , Adam Miranowicz , Franco Nori , Yueh-Nan Chen

Topological edge states appear at the interface of topologically distinct two Hermitian insulators. We study the extension of this idea to non-Hermitian systems. We consider PT symmetric and topologically distinct non-Hermitian insulators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 C. Yuce

Topological phases in non-Hermitian systems have become fascinating subjects recently. In this paper, we attempt to classify topological phases in 1D interacting non-Hermitian systems. We begin with the non-Hermitian generalization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-18 Wenjie Xi , Zhi-Hao Zhang , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Wei-Qiang Chen

We investigate the astonishing physical aspects of Exceptional Points (EPs) in a 1D planar few-mode optical waveguide. The waveguide hosts four quasi-guided modes. Here interactions between the selected pair of modes are modulated by a…

We propose a novel type of exceptional points, dubbed interaction-enabled $n$-fold exceptional points [EP$n$s ($n=2,3$)] -- EP$n$s protected by topology that are prohibited at the non-interacting level. Specifically, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Musashi Kato , Tsuneya Yoshida

The emergence of exceptional points (EPs) in the parameter space of a non-hermitian (2D) eigenvalue problem is studied in a general sense in mathematical physics, and has in the last decade successively reached the scope of experiments. In…

In this paper, we derive a real-space topological invariant that involves all energy states in the system. This global invariant, denoted by $Q$, is always quantized to be 0 or 1, independent of symmetries. In terms of $Q$, we numerically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Kiminori Hattori , Ata Yamaguchi

At thermal equilibrium, we find that generalized susceptibilities encoding the static physical response properties of Hermitian many-electron systems possess inherent non-Hermitian (NH) matrix symmetries. This leads to the generic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-08 Matthias Reitner , Lorenzo Crippa , Dominik Robert Fus , Jan Carl Budich , Alessandro Toschi , Giorgio Sangiovanni

The appearance of topological singularities, namely exceptional points (EPs) is an intriguing feature of parameter-dependent open quantum or wave systems. EPs are the special type of nonHermitian degeneracies where two (or more) eigenstates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Sayan Bhattacherjee , Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model lays the foundation of many important concepts in quantum topological matters. Since it tells one that topological states may be distinguished by abelian geometric phases, a question naturally arises as…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-28 Shao-Liang Zhang , Qi Zhou

Non-Hermitian systems can host topological states with novel topological invariants and bulk-edge correspondences that are distinct from conventional Hermitian systems. Here we show that two unique classes of non-Hermitian 2D topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Junpeng Hou , Ya-Jie Wu , Chuanwei Zhang

We investigate the exceptional points (EPs) and their pseudospectra in black hole perturbation theory. By considering a Gaussian bump modification to the Regge-Wheeler potential with variable amplitude, position, and width parameters,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-24 Li-Ming Cao , Ming-Fei Ji , Liang-Bi Wu , Yu-Sen Zhou

We have investigated the exceptional points (EPs) which are degeneracies of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, in the case that three modes are interacting with each other. Even though the parametric evolution of the modes cannot be uniquely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jung-Wan Ryu , Soo-Young Lee , Sang Wook Kim

Synthetic monopoles, which correspond to degeneracies of Hamiltonians, play a central role in understanding exotic topological phenomena. Dissipation-induced non-Herminicity (NH), extending the eigenspectra of Hamiltonians from the real to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Shou-Bang Yang , Pei-Rong Han , Wen Ning , Fan Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

We analyze chiral topological edge modes in a non-Hermitian variant of the 2D Dirac equation. Such modes appear at interfaces between media with different "masses" and/or signs of the "non-Hermitian charge". The existence of these edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Daniel Leykam , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Chunli Huang , Y. D. Chong , Franco Nori

In this work, we develop a systematical approach of constructing and classifying the model Hamiltonians for two-dimensional (2D) higher-order topological phase with corner zero energy states (CZESs). Our approach is based on the direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Chao-Xing Liu , Xin Liu