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Electric anapole states, arising due to the destructive interferences of primitive and toroidal electric dipole moments, have been recently introduced as the fundamental class of non-scattering sources with several potential applications…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-24 Hooman Barati Sedeh , Natalia M. Litchinitser

Controlling the electromagnetic helicity and directionality of the light scattered by dielectric particles is paramount to a variety of phenomenology of interest in all-dielectric optics and photonics. In this Letter, we show that the…

We report a specially configured non-Hermitian optical microcavity, imposing spatially imbalanced gain-loss profile, to host an exclusively proposed next nearest neighbor resonances coupling scheme. Adopting scattering matrix (S-matrix)…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-11 Arnab Laha , Abhijit Biswas , Somnath Ghosh

Photonic systems with exceptional points, where eigenvalues and corresponding eigenstates coalesce, have attracted interest due to their topological features and enhanced sensitivity to external perturbations. Non-Hermitian mode-coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 B. M. Rodriguez-Lara , H. Ghaemi-Dizicheh , S. Dehdashti , A. Hanke , A. Touhami , J. Nötzel

Non-Hermitian systems enable advanced control of wave propagation by exploiting engineered losses. This introduces an additional degree of freedom that permits the emergence of exceptional points (EPs). In this letter, we theoretically and…

Exceptional points in an optical dimer of spheres, which have the same size and operate in the spectral region of the dipolar resonance, are considered. By choosing different materials of these spheres, we can offset the radiative loss and…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-31 Alexey A. Dmitriev , Mikhail V. Rybin

We study symmetries of open bosonic systems in the presence of laser pumping. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing these systems can be parity-time (${\cal{PT}}$) symmetric in special cases only. Systems exhibiting this symmetry are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Ewelina Lange , Grzegorz Chimczak , Anna Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk , Karol Bartkiewicz

Non-Hermitian systems hosting exceptional points (EPs) exhibit signal enhancement and unconventional mode dynamics. Going beyond isolated EPs, here we report on the existence of exceptional rings (ERs) in planar optical resonators with…

Band structures of metamaterials described by a nonlinear eigenvalue problem are beyond the existing topological band theory. In this paper, we analyze non-Hermitian topology under the nonlinearity of eigenvalues. Specifically, we elucidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tsuneya Yoshida , Takuma Isobe , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Exceptional points are non-Hermitian degeneracies in open quantum and wave systems at which not only eigenenergies but also the corresponding eigenstates coalesce. This is in strong contrast to degeneracies known from conservative systems,…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-13 Jan Wiersig

Non-Hermitian physics can be used to break time reversal symmetry and is important for interactions in a wide range of systems, from active matter and neural networks to metamaterials and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. In integrated…

We theoretically study the non-Hermitian systems, the non-Hermiticity of which arises from the unequal hopping amplitude (UHA) dimers. The distinguishing features of these models are that they have full real spectra if all of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

By preparing a sensor system around isolated exceptional points, one can obtain a great enhancement of the sensitivity benefiting from the non-Hermiticity. However, this comes at the cost of reduction of the flexibility of the system, which…

Complex potential and non-Hermitian hopping amplitude are building blocks of a non-Hermitian quantum network. Appropriate configuration, such as PT-symmetric distribution, can lead to the full real spectrum. To investigate the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 X. Z. Zhang , L. Jin , Z. Song

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can give rise to exceptional points (EPs) which have been extensively explored with nominally identical coupled resonators. Here a non-Hermitian electromechanical system is developed which hosts vibration modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 P. Renault , H. Yamaguchi , I. Mahboob

Non-Hermitian systems always play a negative role in wave manipulations due to inherent non-conservation of energy as well as loss of information. Recently, however, there has been a paradigm shift on utilizing non-Hermitian systems to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Yi-Fan Zhu , Xue-Feng Zhu , Xu-Dong Fan , Bin Liang , Xin-Ye Zou , Jing Yang , Jian-Chun Cheng

A single quantum emitter coupled to a structured non-Hermitian environment shows anomalous bound states and real-time dynamics without Hermitian counterparts, as shown in [Gong et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 223601 (2022)]. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Jimin Li , Yuwen E. Zhang , Franco Nori , Zongping Gong

Exceptional points (EPs) are spectral singularities in non-Hermitian systems where eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenstates coalesce simultaneously. In this study, we calculate scattering poles in an open spherical solid and propose…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Hiroaki Deguchi , Kei Matsushima , Takayuki Yamada

The spectral, dynamical and topological properties of physical systems described by non-Hermitian (including $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric) Hamiltonians are deeply modified by the appearance of exceptional points and spectral singularities. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Longhi , G. Della Valle

Leveraging topological properties in the response of electromagnetic systems can greatly enhance their potential. Although the investigation of singularity-based electromagnetics and non-Hermitian electronics has considerably increased in…