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Band degeneracies, ranging from Hermitian Dirac points to non-Hermitian exceptional points (EPs), play a central role in topological phase transitions. Beyond the topology of individual degeneracies, their mutual interactions yield richer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Weijia Wang , Qicheng Zhang , Kun Zhang , Shuaishuai Tong , Chunyin Qiu

The existence and degeneracies of quantum exceptional, diabolical, and hybrid (i.e., diabolically degenerated exceptional) singularities of simple bosonic systems composed of up to five modes with damping and/or amplification are analyzed.…

We have briefly analyzed the existence of the pseudofermionic structure of multilevel pseudo-Hermitian systems with odd time-reversal and higher order involutive symmetries. We have shown that 2N-level Hamiltonians with N-order eigenvalue…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 O. Cherbal , D. Trifonov , M. Zenad

We analyze the existence and degeneracies of quantum exceptional, diabolical, and hybrid points in simple bosonic systems - comprising up to six modes with damping and/or amplification - under two complementary scenarios to those described…

Exceptional degeneracies, at which both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, and parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, reflecting balanced gain and loss in photonic systems, are paramount concepts in non-Hermitian systems. We here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Marcus Stålhammar , Emil J. Bergholtz

Non-Hermitian systems host band degeneracies that are fundamentally distinct from those in Hermitian systems, most notably exceptional points (EPs) where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In three dimensional (3D) non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Bin Jiang , Aolong Guo , Qilin Cai , Jian-Hua Jiang

The current understanding of the role of topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems and its far-reaching physical consequences observable in a range of dissipative settings are reviewed. In particular, how the paramount and genuinely NH concept…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Emil J. Bergholtz , Jan Carl Budich , Flore K. Kunst

Degeneracy points in non-Hermitian systems are of great interest. While a homotopic framework exists for understanding their behavior in the absence of symmetry, it does not apply to symmetry-protected degeneracy points with reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Jia-Zheng Li , Kai Bai , Cheng Guo , Tian-Rui Liu , Liang Fang , Duanduan Wan , Meng Xiao

We demonstrate the occurrence of nodal non-Hermitian (NH) phases featuring exceptional degeneracies in chiral-symmetric disordered quantum wires, where NH physics naturally arises from the self-energy in a disorder-averaged Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Benjamin Michen , Tommaso Micallo , Jan Carl Budich

Typically, energy levels change without bifurcating in response to a change of a control parameter. Bifurcations can lead to loops or swallowtails in the energy spectrum. The simplest quantum Hamiltonian that supports swallowtails is a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-25 Q. Guan , M. K. H. Ome , T. M. Bersano , S. Mossman , P. Engels , D. Blume

Real eigenvalues of pseudo-Hermitian matrices, such as real matrices and $\mathcal{PT-}$symmetric matrices, frequently split into complex conjugate pairs. This is accompanied by the breaking of certain symmetries of the eigenvectors and,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Abhijeet Melkani

Driven-dissipative systems provide a natural setting for the emergence of exceptional points -- i.e. non-Hermitian degeneracies where eigenmodes coalesce. These points are important for applications such as sensing, where enhanced…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Mawgan A. Smith , Ryan D. McKenzie , Alban Joseph , Robert L. Stamps , Rair Macêdo

One of the unique features of non-Hermitian~(NH) systems is the appearance of non-Hermitian degeneracies known as exceptional points~(EPs). The extensively studied defective EPs occur when the Hamiltonian becomes non-diagonalizable. Aside…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Sharareh Sayyad , Marcus Stalhammar , Lukas Rodland , Flore K. Kunst

Spectral degeneracies (dubbed nodal points in momentum space) play fundamental roles in understanding exotic properties of light and matter. In lattice systems, unpaired band-structure degeneracies are subject to well-established no-go…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Kunkun Wang , J. Lukas K. König , Kang Yang , Lei Xiao , Wei Yi , Emil J. Bergholtz , Peng Xue

Driven-dissipative quantum systems can exhibit robust transport and amplification in topological regimes, yet the connection between topology and the extent of correlations remains largely unexplored. In this work, we develop a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Miguel Clavero Rubio , Tomás Ramos , Diego Porras

We introduce an extended version of the Swanson model, defined on a two-dimensional non commutative space, which can be diagonalized exactly by making use of pseudo-bosonic operators. Its eigenvalues are explicitly computed and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 Fabio Bagarello , Francesco Gargano , Salvatore Spagnolo

Open systems with gain and loss, described by non-trace-preserving, non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, have been a subject of intense research recently. The effect of exceptional-point degeneracies on the dynamics of classical systems has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 M. Naghiloo , M. Abbasi , Yogesh N. Joglekar , K. W. Murch

Modern quantum platforms such as superconducting circuits provide exciting opportunities for the experimental exploration of driven-dissipative many-body systems in unconventional regimes. One of such regimes occurs in bosonic systems,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-16 Yinan Chen , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch

We demonstrate the existence of exceptional points of degeneracy (EPD) of periodic eigenstates in non-Hermitian coupled chains of dipolar scatterers. Guided modes supported by these structures can exhibit an EPD in their dispersion diagram…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-22 Mohamed A. K. Othman , Vincenzo Galdi , Filippo Capolino

Exceptional points play a pivotal role in the topology of non-Hermitian systems, and significant advances have been made in classifying exceptional points and exploring the associated phenomena. Exceptional surfaces, which are hypersurfaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 Hongwei Jia , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Jing Hu , Yixin Xiao , Yifei Zhu , C. T. Chan
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