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Quantum effects in metrology can in principle enhance measurement precision from the so-called standard quantum limit to the Heisenberg Limit. Further advancements in quantum metrology largely rely on innovative metrology protocols that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Zhixing Zou , Jiangbin Gong , Weitao Chen

Exceptional point (EP) degeneracies in coupled cavities with gain and loss provide on-chip photonic devices with unconventional features and performance. However, such systems with realistic structures often miss the exact EPs even in…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Kenta Takata , Nathan Roberts , Akihiko Shinya , Masaya Notomi

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

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry and anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry give rise to exceptional points (EPs) with intriguing properties related to, e.g., chiral transport and enhanced sensitivity, due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Hossein Rangani Jahromi , Rosario Lo Franco

Compared with Hermitian theory, non-Hermitian physics offers a fundamentally different mathematical framework, enabling the observation of topological phenomena that have no analogue in Hermitian systems. Among these, the exceptional point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Zhong-Sheng Chen , Wei-Xin Chen , Fan Wu , Zhong-Wei Xu , Jing Ma , Yun-Kun Jiang , Huai-Zhi Wu , Shi-Biao Zheng

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

Exceptional points (EPs) are remarkable spectral degeneracies in a non-Hermitian system's parameter space, where both eigenvalues and eigenstates coalesce. Here, we show that in non-Hermitian molecular chiral systems the position of EPs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Nicola Mayer , Alexander Löhr , Nimrod Moiseyev , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

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

Exceptional points (EPs) -- singularities in the parameter space of non-Hermitian systems where two nearby eigenmodes coalesce -- feature unique properties with applications such as sensitivity enhancement and chiral emission. Existing…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-08 Xingwei Gao , Hao He , Scott Sobolewski , Alexander Cerjan , Chia Wei Hsu

Quantum sensing exploits fundamental features of quantum system to achieve highly efficient measurement of physical quantities. Here, we propose a strategy to realize a single-qubit pseudo-Hermitian sensor from a dilated two-qubit Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Yaoming Chu , Yu Liu , Haibin Liu , Jianming Cai

A numerical algorithm is proposed to explore in a systematic way the trajectories of the eigenvalues of non-Hermitian matrices in the parametric space and exploit this in order to find the locations of defective eigenvalues in the complex…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Benoit Nennig , Emmanuel Perrey-Debain

Non-Hermitian, tight-binding $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric models are extensively studied in the literature. Here, we investigate two forms of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians to study the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry breaking thresholds and features of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Jacob L. Barnett , Yogesh N. Joglekar

Quantum correlations, both spatial and temporal, are the central pillars of quantum mechanics. Over the last two decades, a big breakthrough in quantum physics is its complex extension to the non-Hermitian realm, and dizzying varieties of…

Exceptional points (EPs) are complex singularities of parametric linear operators where two or more eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. EPs are attracting increasing interest in mechanical metamaterials due to their strong potentials for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Weidi Wang , Alireza V. Amirkhizi

We study the elastodynamics of a periodic metastructure incorporating a defect pair that enforces a parity-time (PT) symmetry due to a judiciously engineered imaginary impedance elements - one having energy amplification (gain) and the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Yanghao Fang , Tsampikos Kottos , Ramathasan Thevamaran

Viewing a quantum thermal machine as a non-Hermitian quantum system, we characterize in full generality its analytical time-dependent dynamics by deriving the spectrum of its non-Hermitian Liouvillian for an arbitrary initial state. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Shishir Khandelwal , Nicolas Brunner , Géraldine Haack

Exceptional points (EP) featuring enhanced responsivity and rich dynamics have attracted extensive attentions in device developments and sensing applications. However, it remains debated whether employing EP systems is beneficial in…

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

Exceptional points (EPs) associated with a square-root singularity have been found in many non-Hermitian systems. In most of the studies, the EPs found are isotropic meaning that the same singular behavior is obtained independent of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Kun Ding , Guancong Ma , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

It is conjectured that the exceptional-point (EP) singularity of a one-parametric quasi-Hermitian $N$ by $N$ matrix Hamiltonian $H(t)$ can play the role of a quantum phase-transition interface connecting different dynamical regimes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Miloslav Znojil