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We study the interplay between rotation and openness for mode coupling in wavelength-scale microcavities. In cavities deformed from a circular disk, the decay rates of a quasi-degenerate pair of resonances may cross or anti-cross with…

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Optical cavities are frequently used in quantum technologies to enhance light matter interactions, with applications including single photon generation and entanglement of distant emitters. The Fabry-P\'{e}rot resonator is a popular choice…

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Electromagnetic resonators are a versatile platform to harvest, filter and trap electromagnetic energy, at the basis of many applications from microwaves to optics. Resonators with a large intrinsic quality factor (Q) are highly desirable…

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We study the effect of mode-coupling on a single-photon device in which a dipole-quantum-emitter (DQE) is embedded in a bimodal whispering-gallery-mode cavity (WGMC). A scatterer is used to induce mode coupling between counter-clockwise and…

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Spatio-temporal modulation has shown great promise as a strong time-reversal symmetry breaking mechanism that enables integrated nonreciprocal devices and topological materials at optical frequencies. However, optical modulation has its own…

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Recently, a local and imperfect chirality of the resonant eigenmode at the exceptional point (EP) has been reported in the optical whispering gallery microcavity system perturbed by two strong nanoscatterers [Phys. Rev. A 108, L041501…

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Floquet engineering has been recently recognized as an important tool for manipulating the coherent magnon-photon interaction in cavity electromagnonics systems at microwave frequencies. In spite of the novel hybrid magnonic functionalities…

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Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian photonic systems enable unconventional control of wave amplitude and phase. However, identifying the EPs in multidimensional parameter space of a system can be nontrivial and, in some cases, even…

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Unlike a real magnetic field, which separates the energy levels of particle with opposite spin polarization, a complex field can lead to a special kind of spectral degeneracy, known as exceptional point (EP), at which two spin eigenmodes…

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We study the controllable single-photon scattering via a one-dimensional waveguide which is coupled to a two-level emitter and a single-mode cavity simultaneously. The emitter and the cavity are also coupled to each other and form a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Zhihai Wang , Lei Du , Yong Li , Yu-xi Liu

Abstract An exceptional point of degeneracy (EPD) is induced in a system made of an electron beam interacting with an electromagnetic (EM) guided mode. This enables a degenerate synchronous regime in backward wave oscillators (BWOs) where…

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