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Exceptional points (EPs) are singular points on a parameter space at which some eigenvalues (scattering poles) and their corresponding eigenmodes coalesce. This study shows the existence of second- and third-order EPs in cylindrical elastic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Kei Matsushima , Yuki Noguchi , Takayuki Yamada

Exceptional points are spectral singularities where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors collapse onto a single mode, causing the system behavior to shift abruptly and making it highly responsive to even small perturbations. Although widely…

Exceptional points are interesting physical phenomena in non-Hermitian physics at which the eigenvalues are degenerate and the eigenvectors coalesce. In this paper, we find that the universal feature of arbitrary non-Hermitian two level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 X. R. Wang , F. Yang , X. J. Yu , X. Q. Tong , S. P. Kou

We show the abundance of Exceptional Points in the generic asymmetric configuration of two coupled diode lasers, under nonzero optical detuning and differential pumping. We pinpoint the location of these points with respect to the stability…

A pair of anisotropic exceptional points (EPs) of arbitrary order are found in a class of non-Hermitian random systems with asymmetric hoppings. Both eigenvalues and eigenvectors exhibit distinct behaviors when these anisotropic EPs are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Yi-Xin Xiao , Zhao-Qing Zhang , Zhi Hong Hang , C. T. Chan

Recently, presence of hidden singularities known as exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian quantum systems has opened up a tremendous interest in different domains of physics owing to their unique unconventional physical effects.…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-08 Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh

Exceptional points~(EPs) appear as degeneracies in the spectrum of non-Hermitian matrices at which the eigenvectors coalesce. In general, an EP of order $n$ may find room to emerge if $2(n-1)$ real constraints are imposed. Our results show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Sharareh Sayyad , Flore K. Kunst

We study a model of a quantum collective spin weakly coupled to a spin-polarized Markovian environment and find that the spectrum is divided into two regions that we name normal and exceptional Liouvillian spectral phases. In the…

At thermal equilibrium, we find that generalized susceptibilities encoding the static physical response properties of Hermitian many-electron systems possess inherent non-Hermitian (NH) matrix symmetries. This leads to the generic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-08 Matthias Reitner , Lorenzo Crippa , Dominik Robert Fus , Jan Carl Budich , Alessandro Toschi , Giorgio Sangiovanni

Non-Hermitian physics is reshaping our understanding of quantum systems by revealing states and phenomena without Hermitian counterparts. While non-Hermiticity is typically associated with gain-loss processes in open systems, we uncover a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci

Open systems with non-Hermitian degeneracies called exceptional points show a significantly enhanced response to perturbations in terms of large energy splittings induced by a small perturbation. This reaction can be quantified by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Jan Wiersig

The past few years have witnessed growing interests in exceptional points (EPs) in various domains, including photonics, acoustics and electronics. However, EPs have mainly been realized based on the degeneracy of resonances of physical…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-20 Changqing Wang , William R. Sweeney , A. Douglas Stone , Lan Yang

Eigenstate coalescence in non-Hermitian systems is widely observed in diverse scientific domains encompassing optics and open quantum systems. Recent investigations have revealed that adiabatic encircling of exceptional points (EPs) leads…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Jung-Wan Ryu , Jae-Ho Han , Chang-Hwan Yi , Moon Jip Park , Hee Chul Park

We construct a theory to introduce the concept of topologically robust exceptional points (EP). Starting from an ordered system with $N$ elements, we find the necessary condition to have the highest order exceptional point, namely…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-07 Cem Yuce , Hamidreza Ramezani

We explore spatial symmetry breaking of a dipolar Bose Einstein condensate in the thermodynamic limit and reveal a critical point in the phase diagram at which crystallization occurs via a second order phase transition. This behavior is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-09 Yong-Chang Zhang , Fabian Maucher , Thomas Pohl

We report here the observation of a surprising phenomenon consisting in a oscillating phase transition which appears in a binary mixture, PMMA/3-octanone, when this is enlightened by a strongly focused infrared laser beam. PMMA/3-octanone…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Clémence Devailly , Caroline Crauste-Thibierge , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

We study mechanical cooling in systems of coupled passive (lossy) and active (with gain) optical resonators. We find that for a driving laser which is red-detuned with respect to the cavity frequency, the supermode structure of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-15 H. Jing , Ş. K. Özdemir , H. Lü , Franco Nori

Engineered non-Hermitian systems featuring exceptional points can lead to a host of extraordinary phenomena in diverse fields ranging from photonics, acoustics, opto-mechanics, electronics, to atomic physics. Here we introduce and present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Arkadev Roy , Saman Jahani , Qiushi Guo , Avik Dutt , Shanhui Fan , Mohammad-Ali Miri , Alireza Marandi

Conventional mode switching mechanisms, which rely on dynamically encircling exceptional points (EPs) through non-adiabatic transitions (NATs), suffer from intrinsic nonlinear dynamics that hinder precise control and reproducibility in…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kyu-Won Park , KyeongRo Kim , Jinuk Kim , Muhan Choi , Kabgyun Jeong

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