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An open quantum system operated at the spectral singularities where dimensionality reduces, known as exceptional points (EPs), demonstrates distinguishing behavior from the Hermitian counterpart. Here, we present an analytical description…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Yuwei Lu , Yanhui Zhao , Runhua Li , Jingfeng Liu

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

Several works have recently addressed the emergence of exceptional points (EPs), i.e., spectral singularities of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, in the long-wavelength dynamics of coupled magnetic systems. Here, by focusing on the driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Xin Li , Kuangyin Deng , Benedetta Flebus

Dissipation usually plays a negative role in quantum metrological technologies, which aim to improve measurement precision by leveraging quantum effects that are vulnerable to environment-induced decoherence. Recently, it has been…

Chiral active particles (CAPs) are self-propelling particles that break time-reversal symmetry by orbiting or spinning, leading to intriguing behaviors. Here, we examined the dynamics of CAPs moving in 2D lattices of disk obstacles through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-20 Chung Wing Chan , Daihui Wu , Kaiyao Qiao , Kin Long Fong , Zhiyu Yang , Yilong Han , Rui Zhang

Exceptional points (EPs) have attracted extensive research interest due to their intriguing properties. One of the hallmarks of EP physics is that dynamically encircling the EPs induces chiral mode switching, arising from the breakdown of…

Physical systems with gain and loss can be described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, which is degenerated at the exceptional points (EPs). Many new and unexpected features have been explored in the non-Hermitian systems with a great deal of…

We propose a method to break the chiral symmetry of light in traveling wave resonators by coupling the optical modes to a lossy channel. Through the engineered dissipation, an indirect dissipative coupling between two oppositely propagating…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-03 Fang-Jie Shu , Chang-Ling Zou , Xu-Bo Zou , Lan Yang

We propose a novel inverse-design method that enables brute-force discovery of photonic crystal (PhC) structures with complex spectral degeneracies. As a proof of principle, we demonstrate PhCs exhibiting third-order Dirac points formed by…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-07 Zin Lin , Adi Pick , Marko Lončar , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

The precise determination of critical exponents is crucial for understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. These exponents are fundamentally linked to the system's behavior near the critical end…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Fei Sun , Xun Chen , Shuang Li , Akira Watanabe

Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian photonic systems have attracted considerable research interest due to their singular eigenvalue topology and associated anomalous physical phenomena. These properties enable diverse applications…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Kaiyuan Wang , Qi Jie Wang , Matthew R. Foreman , Yu Luo

Degeneracy (exceptional) points embedded in energy band are distinct by their topological features. We report different hybrid two-state coalescences (EP2s) formed through merging two EP2s with opposite chiralities that created from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 L. Jin , H. C. Wu , Bo-Bo Wei , Z. Song

Exceptional points, with simultaneous coalescence of eigen-values and eigen-vectors, can be realized with non-Hermitian photonic systems. With the enhanced response, exceptional points have been proposed to improve the performance of…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-22 Dalton Anderson , Manav Shah , Linran Fan

We discuss central-exclusive production (CEP) of photons via different fusion processes in the reaction $pp \to pp \gamma$ at high energies, available at RHIC and LHC, within the tensor-pomeron model. We consider two types of processes, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-26 Piotr Lebiedowicz , Otto Nachtmann , Antoni Szczurek

We propose a scheme for obtaining highly-sensitive oscillators in a coupled-resonator system with an exceptional point of degeneracy (EPD) and a small instability. The oscillator with the exceptional degeneracy is realized by using two…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Alireza Nikzamir , Filippo Capolino

Exceptional points (EPs) are central to non-Hermitian physics because of their unique properties and broad application prospects. While extensively studied in parity-time ($\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$)-symmetric systems and under Markovian…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 H. Z. Shen , X. C. Zhang , L. Y. Ning , Zhi-Guang Lu , Yan-Hui Zhou , Cheng Shang

Exceptional points (EPs) with their intriguing spectral topology have attracted considerable attention in a broad range of physical systems, with potential sensing applications driving much of the present research in this field. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jan Wingenbach , Stefan Schumacher , Xuekai Ma

The interplay between coherent and dissipative dynamics required in various control protocols of quantum technology has motivated studies of open-system degeneracies, referred to as exceptional points (EPs). Here, we introduce a scheme for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Wallace S. Teixeira , Vasilii Vadimov , Timm Mörstedt , Suman Kundu , Mikko Möttönen

We analyse two quantum systems with hidden parity-time (PT) symmetry: one is an optical device, whereas another is a superconducting microwave-frequency device. To investigate their symmetry, we introduce an equilibrium frame, in which loss…

Dynamically encircling an exceptional point (EP) in parity-time (PT) symmetric systems shows an interesting chiral dynamics, leading to asymmetric mode switching in which the output modes are different when the encircling direction is…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-16 Xu-Lin Zhang , Tianshu Jiang , Hong-Bo Sun , C. T. Chan
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