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Hamiltonian exceptional points (HEPs) are spectral degeneracies of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing classical and semiclassical open systems with losses and/or gain. However, this definition overlooks the occurrence of quantum jumps in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Shilan Abo , Patrycja Tulewicz , Karol Bartkiewicz , Şahin K. Özdemir , Adam Miranowicz

The exceptional point has presented considerably interesting and counterintuitive phenomena associated with nonreciprocity, precision measurement, and topological dynamics. The Liouvillian exceptional point (LEP), involving the interplay of…

Exceptional points in non-Hermitian quantum systems give rise to novel genuine quantum phenomena. Recent explorations of exceptional-point-induced quantum phase transitions have extended from discrete-variable to continuous-variable-encoded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Pei-Rong Han , Tian-Le Yang , Wen Ning , Hao-Long Zhang , Huifang Kang , Huiye Qiu , Zhen-Biao Yang

Viewing a quantum thermal machine as a non-Hermitian quantum system, we characterize in full generality its analytical time-dependent dynamics by deriving the spectrum of its non-Hermitian Liouvillian for an arbitrary initial state. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Shishir Khandelwal , Nicolas Brunner , Géraldine Haack

Usually, when investigating exceptional points (EPs) of an open Markovian bosonic system, one deals with spectral degeneracies of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian (NHH), which can correctly describe the system dynamics only in the semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Adam Miranowicz , Fabrizio Minganti , Franco Nori

Non-Hermitian (NH) systems can display exotic topological phenomena without Hermitian counterparts, enabled by exceptional points (EPs). So far, investigations of NH topology have been restricted to EPs of the NH Hamiltonian, which governs…

Exceptional points are the branch-point singularities of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, and have rich consequences in open-system dynamics. While the exceptional points and their critical phenomena are widely studied in the non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Konghao Sun , Wei Yi

Exceptional points (EPs), indicative of parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking, play a central role in non-Hermitian physics, yet most studies begin from deliberately engineered effective Hamiltonians whose parameters are tuned to exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Eric R. Bittner , Bhavay Tyagi , Kevin E. Bassler

We study the applicability of the Liouvillian exceptional points (LEPs) approach to nanoscale open quantum systems. A generic model of the driven two-level system in a thermal environment is analyzed within the nonequilibrium Green's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Nikhil Seshadri , Anqi Li , Michael Galperin

Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies of classical and quantum open systems, which are studied in many areas of physics including optics, optoelectronics, plasmonics, and condensed matter physics. In the semiclassical regime, open…

The dynamics of open quantum systems described by the Lindblad master equation follows according to non-Hermitian operators. As a result, such systems can host non-Hermitian degeneracies called Liouvillian exceptional points (EPs). In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Sayooj P , Awadhesh Narayan

Open quantum systems interacting with an environment exhibit dynamics described by the combination of dissipation and coherent Hamiltonian evolution. Taken together, these effects are captured by a Liouvillian superoperator. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 Weijian Chen , Maryam Abbasi , Byung Ha , Serra Erdamar , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Kater W. Murch

Dissipatively stabilized cat qubits are promising for fault-tolerant quantum information processing, yet their non-Hermitian (NH) spectral topology remains largely unexplored. We uncover rich Liouvillian exceptional structures in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Tian-Le Yang , Pei-Rong Han , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

In the past few decades, many works have been devoted to the study of exceptional points (EPs), i.e., exotic degeneracies of non-Hermitian systems. The usual approach in those studies involves the introduction of a phenomenological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Adam Miranowicz , Fabrizio Minganti , Franco Nori

One of the most remarkable features that distinguish open systems from closed ones is the presence of exceptional points (EPs), where two or more eigenvectors of a non-Hermitian operator coalesce, accompanying the convergence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Hao-Long Zhang , Pei-Rong Han , Fan Wu , Wen Ning , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Exceptional points (EPs) correspond to degeneracies of open systems. These are attracting much interest in optics, optoelectronics, plasmonics, and condensed matter physics. In the classical and semiclassical approaches, Hamiltonian EPs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Fabrizio Minganti , Adam Miranowicz , Ravindra W. Chhajlany , Franco Nori

We analytically investigate the Liouvillian exceptional point manifolds (LEPMs) of a two-qubit open system, where one qubit is coupled to a dissipative polarization bath. Exploiting a Z_2 symmetry, we block-diagonalize the Liouvillian and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Vladislav Popkov , Carlo Presilla , Mario Salerno

Exceptional points (EPs) are special points in non-Hermitian systems where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In open quantum systems, these points are typically analyzed using effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians or Liouvillian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Wai Chun Wong , Bei Zeng , Jensen Li

We investigate speeding up of relaxation of Markovian open quantum systems with the Liouvillian exceptional point (LEP), where the slowest decay mode degenerate with a faster decay mode. The degeneracy significantly increases the gap of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Yan-Li Zhou , Xiao-Die Yu , Chun-Wang Wu , Xie-Qian Li , Jie Zhang , Weibin Li , Ping-Xing Chen

Exceptional points (EPs) are spectral defects displayed by non-Hermitian systems in which multiple degenerate eigenvalues share a single eigenvector. This distinctive feature makes systems exhibiting EPs more sensitive to external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Subhajyoti Bid , Henning Schomerus
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