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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 nontrivial degeneracies in non-Hermitian systems, exceptional points (EPs), have attracted extensive attention due to intriguing phenomena. Compared with commonly observed second-order EPs, high-order EPs show rich physics due to their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Yue Li , Yang Wu , Yuqi Zhou , Mengxiang Zhang , Xingyu Zhao , Yibo Yuan , Xu Cheng , Yi Li , Xi Qin , Xing Rong , Yiheng Lin , Jiangfeng Du

Exceptional points (EPs) are spectral degeneracies unique to non-Hermitian systems which underpin phenomena from enhanced sensing to unconventional topology. While disorder is usually viewed as detrimental, it can also drive topological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-28 Xiaoyu Cheng , Tiantao Qu , Yaqing Yang , Jun Chen , Lei Zhang

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…

We review some recent work on the occurrence of coalescing eigenstates at exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems and their influence on physical quantities. We particularly focus on quantum dynamics near exceptional points in open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Savannah Garmon , Takafumi Sawada , Kenichi Noba , Gonzalo Ordonez

Complex spectra of dissipative quantum systems may exhibit degeneracies known as exceptional points (EPs). At these points the systems' dynamics may undergo drastic changes. Phenomena associated with EPs and their applications have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Andrei I. Pavlov , Yuval Gefen , Alexander Shnirman

Exceptional points (EPs) have recently attracted considerable attention in the study of non-Hermitian systems and in applications such as sensors and mode switching. In particular, nontrivial topological structures of EPs have been studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Kyu-Won Park , Jinuk Kim , Kabgyun Jeong

The unique properties of exceptional point (EP) singularities, arising from non-Hermitian physics, have unlocked new possibilities for manipulating light-matter interactions. A tailored gain-loss variation, while encircling higher-order EPs…

Non-Hermitian systems have been at the center of intense research for over a decade, partly due to their nontrivial energy topology formed by intersecting Riemann manifolds with branch points known as exceptional points (EPs). This spectral…

One of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of non-Hermitian systems is their spectral degeneracies, i.e., exceptional points (EPs), at which both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce to form a defective state space. While coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Kuangyin Deng , Xin Li , Benedetta Flebus

Exceptional points (EPs), branch singularities parameter space of non-Hermitian eigenvalue manifolds, display unique topological phenomena linked to eigenvalue and eigenvector switching: the parameter space states are highly sensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 K. Ho , S. Perna , S. Wittrock , S. Tsunegi , H. Kubota , S. Yuasa , P. Bortolotti , M. d'Aquino , C. Serpico , V. Cros , R. Lebrun

The concept of exceptional point (EP) is demonstrated experimentally in the case of a simple mechanical system consisting of two linearized coupled pendulums. Exceptional points correspond to specific values of the system parameters that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Nicolas Even , Benoit Nennig , Gautier Lefebvre , Emmanuel Perrey-Debain

A main distinguishing feature of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics is the presence of exceptional points (EPs). They correspond to the coalescence of two energy levels and their respective eigenvectors. Here, we use the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Milan Šindelka , Lea F. Santos , Nimrod Moiseyev

In a non-Hermitian optical system with loss and gain, an exceptional point (EP) will arise under specific parameters where the eigenvalues and eigenstates exhibit simultaneous coalescence. Here we report a dynamical switching of lasing…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-30 Yicong Zhang , Weiwei Liu , Qingjie Liu , Bing Wang , Peixiang Lu

Non-Hermitian systems have attracted significant interest because of their intriguing and useful properties, including exceptional points (EPs), where eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenstates of non-Hermitian operators become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Hamed Ghaemi-Dizicheh , Shahram Dehdashti , Andreas Hanke , Ahmed Touhami , Janis Nötzel

Entanglement is a key resource for quantum information technologies ranging from quantum sensing to quantum computing. Conventionally, the entanglement between two coupled qubits is established at the time scale of the inverse of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Zeng-Zhao Li , Weijian Chen , Maryam Abbasi , Kater W. Murch , K. Birgitta Whaley

Exceptional point (EP) is exclusive for non-Hermitian system and distinct from that at a degeneracy point (DP), supporting intriguing dynamics, which can be utilized to probe quantum phase transition and prepare eigenstates in a Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 P. Wang , K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

The dynamics of Hermitian many-body quantum systems has long been a challenging subject due to the complexity induced by the particle-particle interactions. In contrast, this difficulty may be avoided in a well-designed non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 X. M. Yang , Z. Song

Exceptional points facilitate peculiar dynamics in non-Hermitian systems. Yet, in photonics, they have mainly been studied in the classical realm. In this work, we reveal the behavior of two-photon quantum states in non-Hermitian systems…

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