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The mechanism of phase synchronization between uncoupled limit-cycle oscillators induced by common external impulsive forcing is analyzed. By reducing the dynamics of the oscillator to a random phase map, it is shown that phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-06-13 H. Nakao , K. Arai , K. Nagai , Y. Tsubo , Y. Kuramoto

Active energy compression scheme is presently being investigated for future laser-plasma accelerators. This method enables generating laser-plasma accelerator electron beams with a small, $\sim 10^{-5}$, relative slice energy spread. When…

Exceptional points (EPs) are distinct characteristics of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. In this study, we focus on EPs in continuous systems rather than discrete non-Hermitian systems, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Y. T. Wang , R. Wang , X. Z. Zhang

Mode-locked fibre lasers are important sources of ultrashort pulses, where stable pulse generation is achieved through a balance of periodic amplitude and phase evolutions. A range of distinct cavity pulse dynamics have been revealed,…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-29 R. I. Woodward

The exotic physics emerging at singularities has long attracted intense theoretical and experimental attention. In non-Hermitian systems, exceptional points (EPs), unique spectral singularities, have given rise to a host of intriguing wave…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Kai Bai , Chen Lin , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao

Existence of breather (spatially localized, time periodic, oscillatory) solutions of the topological discrete sine-Gordon (TDSG) system, in the regime of weak coupling, is proved. The novelty of this result is that, unlike the systems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Haskins , J. M. Speight

We propose technique of simultaneous excitation of disordered qubits providing an effective suppression of inhomogeneous broadening in their spectral density. The technique is based on applying of optimally chosen $\pi$-pulse with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-11 Sergey V. Remizov , Dmitriy S. Shapiro , Alexey N. Rubtsov

We observe natural exceptional points in the excitation spectrum of an exciton-polariton system by optically tuning the light-matter interactions. The observed exceptional points do not require any spatial or polarization degrees of freedom…

We investigate exceptional points of degeneracy (EPDs) in electromagnetic scattering of a sphere dimer from the electroquasistatic limit to the fully retarded regime. In the quasistatic limit, we prove that $\parity\trev$-symmetric…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Emanuele Corsaro , Filippo Capolino , Carlo Forestiere

Real-time spectroscopy based on an emerging time-stretch technique can map the spectral information of optical waves into the time domain, opening several fascinating explorations of nonlinear dynamics in mode-locked lasers. However, the…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-23 X. M. Liu , Y. D. Cui

Exceptional point (EP) is a spectral singularity in non-Hermitian systems. The passing over the EP leads to a phase transition, which endows the system with unconventional features that find a wide range of applications. However, the need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 T. T. Sergeev , A. A. Zyablovsky , E. S. Andrianov , Yu. E. Lozovik

The emergence of breathing solitons in mode-locked lasers presents a fundamental challenge for the theoretical modelling of mode locking, with the mechanisms underlying below- and above-threshold breathing solitons, and the origins of their…

We show theoretically and experimentally that a quantum cascade laser (QCL) in an external Fabry-Perot cavity (EC) can produce regular self-pulsations (SP) of the output intensity at frequencies ~75 GHz. We recognize that the propagation…

Exceptional points (EPs) are special spectral degeneracies of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians governing the dynamics of open systems. At the EP two or more eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenstates coalesce. Recently, it has been proposed…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yu-Hung Lai , Yu-Kun Lu , Myoung-Gyun Suh , Kerry Vahala

Generating intense ultrashort pulses with high-quality spatial modes is crucial for ultrafast and strong-field science. This can be accomplished by controlling propagation of femtosecond pulses under the influence of Kerr nonlinearity and…

In conventional eigenvalue analyses of non Hermitian two mode systems, mode coupling cannot produce the simultaneous occurrence of an exceptional point (EP) and a quasi bound state in the continuum (QBIC) at the same spectral position. This…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiao-Jing Du , Xi-Hua Guan , Yue You , Lin Ma , Jun He , Zhong-Jian Yang

Exceptional points (EPs) have been widely studied in quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, optics and photonics. However, their potential in acoustics has only recently been recognized due to the rapid development of acoustic…

We present a detailed analysis of the modulational instability of the zone-boundary mode for one and higher-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattices. Following this instability, a process of relaxation to equipartition takes place, which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Thierry Dauxois , Ramaz Khomeriki , Francesco Piazza , Stefano Ruffo

Defining and measuring phase synchronization in a pair of nonlinear time series are highly nontrivial. This can be done with the help of Fourier transform, when it exists, for a pair of stored (hence stationary) signals. In a time series…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kaushik Majumdar

We experimentally demonstrate synchronization between two distinct ensembles of cold atoms undergoing steady state superradiance within a single longitudinal and transverse mode of the same optical cavity. The synchronization process is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Joshua M. Weiner , Kevin C. Cox , Justin G. Bohnet , James K. Thompson