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The requirement for Hermiticity in quantum mechanics ensures the reality of energies, while the parity-time symmetry offers an alternative route to achieve this goal. Interestingly, in a three-level system, the parity-time symmetry-breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Y. -Y. Chen , K. Li , L. Zhang , Y. -K. Wu , J. -Y. Ma , H. -X. Yang , C. Zhang , B. -X. Qi , Z. -C. Zhou , P. -Y. Hou , Y. Xu , L. -M. Duan

Several works have recently addressed the emergence of exceptional points (EPs), i.e., spectral singularities of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, in the long-wavelength dynamics of coupled magnetic systems. Here, by focusing on the driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Xin Li , Kuangyin Deng , Benedetta Flebus

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

Exceptional points (EPs) are non-Hermitian spectral degeneracies marking a simultaneous coalescence of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Despite the fact that multiband $n$-fold EPs (EP$n$s) generically emerge as special points on manifolds of…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-16 Anton Montag , Jordan Isaacs , Marcus Stålhammar , Flore K. Kunst

The Liouvillian exceptional points for a quantum Markovian master equation of an oscillator in a generic environment are obtained. They occur at the points when the modified frequency of the oscillator vanishes, whereby the eigenvalues of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 B. A. Tay

We employ a recently-developed transfer-matrix formulation of scattering theory in two dimensions to study a class of scattering setups modeled by real potentials. The transfer matrix for these potentials is related to the time-evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

Consider a scenario where $N$ separated quantum systems are measured, each with one among two possible dichotomic observables. Assume that the $N$ events corresponding to the choice and performance of the measurement in each site are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ll. Masanes

The study of non-Hermitian degeneracies -- called exceptional points -- has become an exciting frontier at the crossroads of optics, photonics, acoustics, and quantum physics. Here, we introduce the Newton polygon method as a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Rimika Jaiswal , Ayan Banerjee , Awadhesh Narayan

We analyse two quantum systems with hidden parity-time (PT) symmetry: one is an optical device, whereas another is a superconducting microwave-frequency device. To investigate their symmetry, we introduce an equilibrium frame, in which loss…

Quantum physics can be extended into the complex domain by considering non-Hermitian Hamiltonians that are $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric. These exhibit exceptional points (EPs) where the eigenspectrum changes from purely real to purely imaginary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Jia-Jia Wang , Yu-Hong He , Chang-Geng Liao , Rong-Xin Chen , Jacob A. Dunningham

Higher-order exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems have recently been used as a tool to engineer high-sensitivity devices, attracting tremendous attention from multidisciplinary fields. Here, we present a simple yet effective scheme…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-31 Ambaresh Sahoo , Amarendra K. Sarma

We theoretically study diverse exceptional points (EPs) in an experimentally feasible magno-optomechanics consisting of an optomechanical subsystem coupled to a magnomechanical subsystem via physically direct contact. By adiabatically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Wen-Di He , Xiao-Hong Fan , Ming-Yue Liu , Guo-Qiang Zhang , Hai-Chao Li , Wei Xiong

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

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

We show that in a generic, ergodic quantum many-body system the interactions induce a non-trivial topology for an arbitrarily small non-hermitean component of the Hamiltonian. This is due to an exponential-in-system-size proliferation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 David J. Luitz , Francesco Piazza

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.…

Exceptional point (EP) denotes the non-Hermitian degeneracy, in which both eigenvalues and eigenstates become identical. By the conventional local Markovian master equation, EP can be constructed by parity-time (PT) or anti-PT symmetry in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu

The appearance of so-called exceptional points in the complex spectra of non-Hermitian systems is often associated with phenomena that contradict our physical intuition. One example of particular interest is the state-exchange process…

We investigate the emergence and corresponding nature of exceptional points located on exceptional hyper-surfaces of non-hermitian transfer matrices for finite-range one-dimensional lattice models. We unravel the non-trivial role of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Madhumita Saha , Manas Kulkarni , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

A phenomenological Hamiltonian of a closed (i.e., unitary) quantum system is assumed to have an $N$ by $N$ real-matrix form composed of a unperturbed diagonal-matrix part $H^{(N)}_0$ and of a tridiagonal-matrix perturbation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Miloslav Znojil