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We show that arbitrarily high-order exceptional points (EPs) can be achieved in a repulsively interacting two-species Bose gas in one dimension. By exactly solving the non-Hermitian two-boson problem, we demonstrate the existence of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-23 Lei Pan , Shu Chen , Xiaoling Cui

Capital to topological insulators, the bulk-boundary correspondence ties a topological invariant computed from the bulk (extended) states with those at the boundary, which are hence robust to disorder. Here we put forward an ordering unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , J. E. Barrios Vargas , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Nonlinearity and non-Hermiticity, for example due to environmental gain-loss processes, are a common occurrence throughout numerous areas of science and lie at the root of many remarkable phenomena. For the latter, parity-time-reflection…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Alexander Felski , Flore K. Kunst

Despite recent extensive studies of the non-Hermitian topology, understanding interaction effects is left as a crucial question. In this paper, we address interaction effects on exceptional points which are protected by the non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Dissipatively stabilized cat qubits are promising for fault-tolerant quantum information processing, yet their non-Hermitian (NH) spectral topology remains largely unexplored. We uncover rich Liouvillian exceptional structures in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Tian-Le Yang , Pei-Rong Han , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Non-Hermitian systems can manifest rich static and dynamical properties at their exceptional points (EPs). Here, we identify yet another class of distinct phenomena that is hinged on EPs, namely, the emergence of a series of non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Zuo Wang , Liang He

We investigate the decay of spatial correlations of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian one-dimensional models that host higher-order exceptional points. Beyond a certain correlation length, they develop anomalous power-law behavior that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Doru Sticlet , Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Balázs Dóra

Exceptional points (EPs), indicative of parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking, play a central role in non-Hermitian physics, yet most studies begin from deliberately engineered effective Hamiltonians whose parameters are tuned to exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Eric R. Bittner , Bhavay Tyagi , Kevin E. Bassler

The notion of synthetic dimensions has expanded the realm of topological physics to four dimensional (4D) space lately. In this work, non-Hermiticity is used as a synthetic parameter in PT-symmetric photonic crystals to study the…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-16 Qiang Wang , Kun Ding , Hui Liu , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

Higher-order topological phases with invertible symmetries have been extensively studied in recent years, revealing gapless modes localized on boundaries of higher codimension. In this work, we extend the framework of higher-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Aswin Parayil Mana , Yabo Li , Hiroki Sukeno , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Non-Hermitian topological systems simultaneously posses two antagonistic features: ultra sensitivity due to exceptional points and robustness of topological zero energy modes, and it is unclear which one prevails under different…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-08 I. Komis , D. Kaltsas , S. Xia , H. Buljan , Z. Chen , K. G. Makris

We demonstrate that the non-Hermitian parity-time (PT) symmetric interfaces formed between amplifying and lossy crystals support dissipationless edge states. These PT edge states exhibit gapless spectra in the complex band structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Xiang Ni , Daria Smirnova , Alexander Poddubny , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Alexander B. Khanikaev

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

We classify gapped phases and characteristic nodal points of non-Hermitian band structures on two-dimensional nonorientable parameter spaces. Such spaces arise in a wide range of physical systems in the presence of nonsymmorphic parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 J. Lukas K. König , Kang Yang , André Grossi Fonseca , Sachin Vaidya , Marin Soljačić , Emil J. Bergholtz

Exceptional points (EPs), i.e., non-Hermitian degeneracies at which eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, can be realized by tuning the gain/loss contrast of different modes in non-Hermitian systems or by engineering the asymmetric…

An experimental setup of three coupled $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric wave guides showing the characteristics of a third-order exceptional point (EP3) has been investigated in an idealized model of three delta-functions wave guides in W.~D. Heiss…

Transmission peak degeneracies (TPDs) have emerged as a promising alternative to exceptional points (EPs) for non-Hermitian sensing, providing square-root frequency splitting without the eigenbasis collapse and associated noise…

Lines of exceptional points are robust in the 3-dimensional non-Hermitian parameter space without requiring any symmetry. However, when more elaborate exceptional structures are considered, the role of symmetry becomes critical. One such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Xiaohan Cui , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Xulong Wang , Wei Wang , Guancong Ma , C. T. Chan

Band topology has been studied as a design principle of realizing robust boundary modes. Here, by exploring non-Hermitian topology, we propose a three-dimensional topological laser that amplifies surface modes. The topological surface laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Kazuki Sone , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

The spectral, dynamical and topological properties of physical systems described by non-Hermitian (including $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric) Hamiltonians are deeply modified by the appearance of exceptional points and spectral singularities. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Longhi , G. Della Valle
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