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Non-Hermitian systems at the exceptional point (EP) degeneracy are demonstrated to be highly sensitive to environmental perturbation. Here, we propose and theoretically investigate a novel multilayered heterostructure favoring double EPs…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-21 Jieun Yim , Han Zhao , Bikashkali Midya , Liang Feng

Phase transitions can dramatically alter system dynamics, unlocking new behavior and improving performance. Exceptional points (EPs), where the eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of a coupled linear system coalesce, are particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Hanfeng Wang , Kurt Jacobs , Donald Fahey , Yong Hu , Dirk R. Englund , Matthew E. Trusheim

Exceptional points (EPs) in open optical systems are rigorously studied using the resonant-state expansion (RSE). A spherical resonator, specifically a homogeneous dielectric sphere in a vacuum, perturbed by two point-like defects which…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-18 Kyle S. Netherwood , Hannah K. Riley , Egor A. Muljarov

Exceptional points (EPs) are degenerate singularities in a non-Hermitian system that can be induced by controlling the interaction between resonant photonic modes. EPs can enable unusual optical phenomena and significantly enhance the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Hoon Yeub Jeong , Yeonsoo Lim , Jungho Han , Soo-Chan An , Young Chul Jun

Exceptional points (EPs), indicative of parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking, play a central role in non-Hermitian physics, yet most studies begin from deliberately engineered effective Hamiltonians whose parameters are tuned to exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Eric R. Bittner , Bhavay Tyagi , Kevin E. Bassler

Exceptional points are the branch-point singularities of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, and have rich consequences in open-system dynamics. While the exceptional points and their critical phenomena are widely studied in the non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Konghao Sun , Wei Yi

We study coupled non-Hermitian Rice-Mele chains, which consist of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain system with staggered on-site imaginary potentials. In two dimensional (2D) thermodynamic limit, the exceptional points (EPs) are shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 C. Li , Z. Song

We examine the physical manifestations of exceptional points and passage times in a two-level system which is subjected to quantum measurements and which admits a non-Hermitian description. Using an effective Hamiltonian acting in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Thilagam

We study the appearance of Exceptional Points in a hybrid system composed of a superconducting flux-qubit and an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy colour centres in diamond. We discuss the possibility of controlling the generation of Exceptional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Romina Ramirez , Marta Reboiro , Diego Tielas

In non-Hermitian systems, the defective band degeneracies, so-called exceptional points (EPs), can form robust exceptional lines (ELs) in 3D momentum space in the absence of any symmetries. Here, we show that a natural orientation can be…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-13 Ruo-Yang Zhang , Xiaohan Cui , Wen-Jie Chen , Zhao-Qing Zhang , C. T. Chan

We investigate the existence of higher order exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian systems, and show that $\mu$-fold EPs are stable in $\mu-1$ dimensions in the presence of anti-unitary symmetries that are local in parameter space, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Pierre Delplace , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Motivated by the recent growing interest in the field of $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric Hamiltonian systems we theoretically study the emergency of singularities called Exceptional Points ($\textit{EP}$s) in the eigenspectrum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Grigory A. Starkov , Mikhail V. Fistul , Ilya M. Eremin

The topological structure associated with the branchpoint singularity around an exceptional point (EP) provides new tools for controlling the propagation of electromagnetic waves and their interaction with matter. To date, observation of…

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

Abstract An exceptional point of degeneracy (EPD) is induced in a system made of an electron beam interacting with an electromagnetic (EM) guided mode. This enables a degenerate synchronous regime in backward wave oscillators (BWOs) where…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Tarek Mealy , Ahmed F. Abdelshafy , Filippo Capolino

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…

Exceptional points are singularities of the spectrum and wave functions which occur in connection with level repulsion. They are accessible in experiments using dissipative systems. It is shown that the wave function at an exceptional point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. D. Heiss , H. L. Harney

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

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

We study the parity and time-reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric quantum physics in a non-Hermitian non-relativistic hydrogen molecule with local (Hubbard type) Coulomb interaction. We consider non-Hermiticity generated from both kinetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Himadri Barman , Suriyaa Valliapan