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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…

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We employ the intertwining operator technique to synthesize a supersymmetric (SUSY) array of arbitrary size $N$. The synthesized SUSY system is equivalent to a spin-$(N-1)/2$ under an effective magnetic field. By considering an additional…

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Current progress in electro-optical modulation within silicon integrated photonics, driven by the unique capabilities of advanced functional materials, has led to significant improvements in device performance. However, inherent constraints…

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Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian photonics offer singular sensitivity enhancements but have thus far been realized almost exclusively in spatially engineered platforms with fixed geometries and limited tunability. Here we extend EP…

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…

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Non-Hermitian systems have been widely explored in platforms ranging from photonics to electric circuits. A defining feature of non-Hermitian systems is exceptional points (EPs), where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. Tropical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ayan Banerjee , Rimika Jaiswal , Madhusudan Manjunath , Awadhesh Narayan

Exceptional points (EPs) are special points in non-Hermitian systems where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In open quantum systems, these points are typically analyzed using effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians or Liouvillian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Wai Chun Wong , Bei Zeng , Jensen Li

The Exceptional Points (EPs) of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians (NHHs) are spectral degeneracies associated with coalescing eigenvalues and eigenvectors which are associated with remarkable dynamical properties. These EPs can be generated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Fabrizio Minganti , Dolf Huybrechts , Cyril Elouard , Franco Nori , Ievgen I. Arkhipov

The physics of systems that cannot be described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian, has been attracting a great deal of attention in recent years, motivated by their nontrivial responses and by a plethora of applications for sensing, lasing, energy…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-16 Alex Krasnok , Nikita Nefedkin , Andrea Alu

A ${\cal PT }$-symmetric model for three interacting wave guides is investigated. Each wave guide is represented by an attractive $\delta$-function potential being in equidistant positions. The two outer potentials are complex describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 W D Heiss , G Wunner

Unconventional $p$-wave magnets (UPMs) with odd-parity spin textures have attracted interest for their zero net magnetization and anisotropic spin-split Fermi surfaces. Here, we explore a non-Hermitian open quantum system composed of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Mohammad Alipourzadeh , Davood Afshar , Yaser Hajati

The existence of exceptional points (EPs) ${-}$ where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors converge ${-}$ is a key characteristic of non-Hermitian physics. A newly-discovered class of magnets ${-}$ termed as altermagnets (AMs) ${-}$ are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Md Afsar Reja , Awadhesh Narayan

Recently, a Dirac exceptional point (EP) was reported in a non-Hermitian system. Unlike a Dirac point in Hermitian systems, this Dirac EP has coalesced eigenstates in addition to the degenerate energy. Also different from a typical EP, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Jose H. D. Rivero , Liang Feng , Li Ge

We propose an analysis technique for the exceptional points (EPs) occurring in the discrete spectrum of open quantum systems (OQS), using a semi-infinite chain coupled to an endpoint impurity as a prototype. We outline our method to locate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 Savannah Garmon , Ingrid Rotter , Naomichi Hatano , Dvira Segal

An astroid-shaped loop of exceptional points (EPs), comprising four cusps, is found to spawn from the triple degeneracy point in the Brillouin zone (BZ) of a Lieb lattice with nearest-neighbor hoppings when non-Hermiticity is introduced.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Yi-Xin Xiao , Kun Ding , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Zhi Hong Hang , C. T. Chan

In the broad context of physics ranging from classical experimental optics to quantum mechanics of unitary as well as non-unitary systems there emerge interesting phenomena related to the presence of the so called Kato's exceptional points…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Miloslav Znojil

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

The requirement for Hermiticity in quantum mechanics ensures the reality of energies, while the parity-time symmetry offers an alternative route to achieve this goal. Interestingly, in a three-level system, the parity-time symmetry-breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Y. -Y. Chen , K. Li , L. Zhang , Y. -K. Wu , J. -Y. Ma , H. -X. Yang , C. Zhang , B. -X. Qi , Z. -C. Zhou , P. -Y. Hou , Y. Xu , L. -M. Duan

Exotic singular objects, known as exceptional points, are ubiquitous in non-Hermitian physics. They might be spectral singularities in energy bands that produce anomalous effects and defectiveness. The quantum entanglement of a generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Wei-Zhu Yi , Yong-Ju Hai , Rong Xiao , Wei-Qiang Chen

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry give rise to exceptional points (EPs) with exceptional properties that arise due to the coalescence of eigenvectors. Such systems have been extensively explored in the…