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Nonreciprocal devices that permit wave transmission in only one direction are indispensible in many fields of science including, e.g., electronics, optics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Manipulating phonons using such nonreciprocal devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Jing Zhang , Bo Peng , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Yu-xi Liu , Hui Jing , Xin-you Lu , Yu-long Liu , Lan Yang , Franco Nori

Effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are obtained to describe coherent perfect absorbing and lasing boundary conditions. PT -symmetry of the Hamiltonians enables to design configurations which perfectly absorb at multiple frequencies.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 V. Achilleos , G. Theocharis , O. Richoux , V. Pagneux

The PT-symmetric waveguides have been frequently discussed in the photonics community due to their extraordinary properties. Especially, the study of power transmission is significant for switching applications. The aim of this study is to…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-11 Chengnian Huang , Zhihao Lan , Menglin L. N. Chen , Wei E. I. Sha

We propose a scheme comprising an array of anisotropic optical waveguides, embedded in a gas of cold atoms, which can be tuned from a Hermitian to an odd-PT -- symmetric configuration through the manipulation of control and assistant laser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Chao Hang , Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Guoxiang Huang , Vladimir V. Konotop

Symmetry-driven wave physics in open systems, exemplified by parity-time (PT) symmetry, has extended the landscape of crystalline phases in materials science to include gain-loss media. Given the growing interest in engineering disorder for…

We study resonant mode conversion in the PT-symmetric multimode waveguides, where symmetry breaking manifests itself in sequential destabilization (appearance of the complex eigenvalues) of the pairs of adjacent guided modes. We show that…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Victor A. Vysloukh , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Unique and flexible properties of non-Hermitian photonic systems attract ever-increasing attention via delivering a whole bunch of novel optical effects and allowing for efficient tuning light-matter interactions on nano- and microscales.…

When waves impinge on a disordered material they are back-scattered and form a highly complex interference pattern. Suppressing any such distortions in the free propagation of a wave is a challenging task with many applications in a number…

Following up on previous studies on parity-time-symmetric gain-loss bi-layers, and inspired by formal analogies with plasmonic waveguides, we study non-Hermiticity-induced wave confinement and guiding phenomena that can occur in…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-02 Silvio Savoia , Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi

Inductive wireless power transfer (WPT) systems can be effectively described as non-Hermitian systems using the coupled-mode theory. In these systems, parity-time (PT) symmetric states facilitate efficient power transfer. Traditionally,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Hanwei Wang , Joshua Yu , Xiaodong Ye , Yang Zhao

The ability to control and direct acoustic energy is essential for many engineering applications such as vibration and noise control, invisibility cloaking, acoustic sensing, energy harvesting, and phononic switching and rectification. The…

The growing complexity of integrated photonics necessitates compact, low-power devices that transcend traditional, material-centric design approaches. In this study, we harness non-Hermitian physics to uncover novel properties of coupled…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-30 P. Chang , S. Ramezanpour , A. Helmy

Parity-time (PT) symmetry and anti-PT symmetry have attracted extensive interest for their non-Hermitian spectral properties, particularly the emergence of purely real and imaginary eigenvalues in their symmetry-unbroken regime,…

Over the past decade, parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric Hamiltonians have been experimentally realized in classical, optical settings with balanced gain and loss, or in quantum systems with localized loss. In both realizations, the…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-30 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Andrew K. Harter

We demonstrate the emergence of an entire flat band embedded in dispersive bands at the exceptional point of a PT symmetric photonic lattice. For this to occur, the gain and loss parameter effectively alters the size of the partial flat…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-12 Hamidreza Ramezani

We present a transmission line theory of exceptional points of degeneracy (EPD) in coupled-mode guiding structures, i.e., a theory that illustrates the characteristics of coupled electromagnetic modes under a special dispersion degeneracy…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-15 Mohamed A. K. Othman , Filippo Capolino

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with complex eigenenergies are useful tools for describing the dynamics of open quantum systems. In particular, parity and time (PT) symmetric Hamiltonians have generated interest due to the emergence of…

Exploring the deep insights into localization, disorder, and wave transport in non-Hermitian systems is an emergent area of research of relevance in different areas of physics. Engineered photonic lattices, with spatial regions of optical…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

This article presents the experimental characterization of nonreciprocal elastic wave transmission in a single-mode elastic waveguide. This asymmetric system is obtained by coupling a selection layer with a conversion layer: the selection…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Thibaut Devaux , Vincent Tournat , Olivier Richoux , Vincent Pagneux

We study existence, stability, and dynamics of linear and nonlinear stationary modes propagating in radially symmetric multi-core waveguides with balanced gain and loss. We demonstrate that, in general, the system can be reduced to an…