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Exceptional points (EPs), ubiquitous non-Hermitian degeneracies, are central features in band structures where non-Hermitian Fermi arcs connect EPs and eigenvalue knots encircle them. Under open boundary conditions (OBCs), non-Hermitian…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Yuancheng Zhao , Jia-Xin Zhong , Jing Lin , Yun Jing , Kun Ding

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

Exceptional points (EPs) are non-Hermitian singularities associated with the coalescence of individual eigenvectors accompanied by the degeneracy of their complex energies. Here, we report the discovery of a generalization to the concept of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zhen Li , Xulong Wang , Rundong Cai , Kenji Shimomura , Congwei Lu , Zhesen Yang , Masatoshi Sato , Guancong Ma

Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians have become an important asset for the effective description of various physical systems that are subject to dissipation. Motivated by recent experimental progress on realizing the NH counterparts of gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Jan Carl Budich , Johan Carlström , Flore K. Kunst , Emil J. Bergholtz

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

Exceptional points (EPs) are peculiar band singularities and play a vital role in a rich array of unusual optical phenomena and non-Hermitian band theory. In this paper, we provide a topological classification of isolated EPs based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Haiping Hu , Shikang Sun , Shu Chen

Higher-order exceptional points (EPs), which appear as multifold degeneracies in the spectra of non-Hermitian systems, are garnering extensive attention in various multidisciplinary fields. However, constructing higher-order EPs still…

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

Non-Hermitian systems and their topological singularities, such as exceptional points (EPs), lines, and surfaces, have recently attracted intense interest. The investigation of these exceptional constituents has led to fruitful…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-08 Liang Fang , Kai Bai , Cheng Guo , Tian-Rui Liu , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao

Photonic topological edge states in one-dimensional dimer chains have long been thought to be robust to structural perturbations by mapping the topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model of a solid-state system. However, the edge states at the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Zhiwei Guo , Tengzhou Zhang , Juan Song , Haitao Jiang , Hong Chen

Exceptional points (EPs) are spectral defects displayed by non-Hermitian systems in which multiple degenerate eigenvalues share a single eigenvector. This distinctive feature makes systems exhibiting EPs more sensitive to external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Subhajyoti Bid , Henning Schomerus

We study non-Hermitian spatial symmetries -- a class of symmetries that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems -- and study how normal and exceptional semimetals can be stabilized by these symmetries. Different from internal ones,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 W. B. Rui , Zhen Zheng , Chenjie Wang , Z. D. Wang

Non-conservative physical systems admit a special kind of spectral degeneracy, known as exceptional point (EP), at which eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the corresponding non-Hermitian Hamiltonian coalesce. Dynamical parametric encircling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Alexey Galda , Valerii M. Vinokur

Exceptional points (EPs) has seen substantial advances in both experiment and theory. However, in quantum systems, higher-order exceptional points remain of great interest and possess numerous intriguing properties yet to be fully explored.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-22 Yu-Jun Liu , Ka Kwan Pak , Peng Ren , Mengbo Guo , Entong Zhao , Chengdong He , Gyu-Boong Jo

We show that analytic continuation of the number of colors, Nc, naturally endows Yang-Mills theory with a non-Hermitian structure. By examining the spectrum of the dilatation operator as a function of complex Nc, we identify a network of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Qingjun Jin , Ke Ren , Gang Yang , Rui Yu

Higher-order exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian systems showcase diverse physical phenomena but require more parameter space freedom or symmetries. It leads to a challenge for the exploration of high-order EP geometries in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Hao Chen , Xiao Qin , Jian-Jun Dong , Yu-Yu Zhang , Zi-Xiang Hu

Non-hermitian quantum systems can exhibit spectral degeneracies known as exceptional points, where two or more eigenvectors coalesce, leading to a non-diagonalizable Jordan block. It is known that symmetries can enhance the abundance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Robin Schäfer , Jan C. Budich , David J. Luitz

Non-Hermitian systems distinguish themselves from Hermitian systems by exhibiting a phase transition point called an exceptional point (EP), which is the point at which two eigenstates coalesce under a system parameter variation. Many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Kun Ding , Guancong Ma , Meng Xiao , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

Exceptional points (EPs), at which more than one eigenvalue and eigenvector coalesce, are unique spectral features of Non-Hermiticity (NH) systems. They exist widely in open systems with complex energy spectra. We experimentally demonstrate…

Non-Hermitian exceptional points (EPs) represent a special type of degeneracy where not only the eigenvalues coalesce, but also the eigenstates tend to collapse on each other. Recent studies have shown that in the presence of an EP,…