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We experimentally examine the topological nature of a strongly coupled spin-photon system induced by damping. The presence of both spin and photonic losses results in a non-Hermitian system with a variety of exotic phenomena dictated by the…

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We investigate different entanglement properties of a holographic QCD (hQCD) model with a critical end point at finite baryon density. Firstly we consider the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) of this hQCD model in a spherical shaped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Zhibin Li , Kun Xu , Mei Huang

Non-Hermitian (NH) quantum systems host exceptional points (EPs), where eigenstates and eigenvalues coalesce, leading to unconventional many-body phenomena absent in Hermitian systems. While NH fermionic systems with complex interactions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-23 Soma Takemori , Kazuki Yamamoto , Akihisa Koga

For a system consisting of a quantum emitter coupled near threshold (band edge) to a one-dimensional continuum with a van Hove singularity in the density of states, we demonstrate general conditions such that a characteristic triple level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Savannah Garmon , Gonzalo Ordonez , Naomichi Hatano

Motivated by the recent growing interest in the field of $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric Hamiltonian systems we theoretically study the emergency of singularities called Exceptional Points ($\textit{EP}$s) in the eigenspectrum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Grigory A. Starkov , Mikhail V. Fistul , Ilya M. Eremin

Non-Hermitian systems can produce branch singularities known as exceptional points (EPs). Different from singularities in Hermitian systems, the topological properties of an EP can involve either the winding of eigenvalues that produces a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Weiyuan Tang , Kun Ding , Guancong Ma

Quantum entanglement can be an effective diagnostic tool for probing topological phases protected by global symmetries. Recently, the notion of nontrivial topology in critical systems has been proposed and is attracting growing attention.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Wen-Hao Zhong , Hai-Qing Lin , Xue-Jia Yu

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

We demonstrate a non-Hermitian topological effect that is characterized by having complex eigenvalues only in the edge states of a topological material, despite the fact that the material is completely uniform. Such an effect can be…

We investigate the rich physics of photonic molecule lasers using a non-Hermitian dimer model. We show that several interesting features, predicted recently using a rigorous steady state ab-initio laser theory (SALT), can be captured by…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ramy El-Ganainy , Mercedeh Khajavikhan , Li Ge

We propose an efficient optomechanical mass sensor operating at exceptional points (EPs), non-hermitian degeneracies where eigenvalues of a system and their corresponding eigenvectors simultaneously coalesce. The benchmark system consists…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 P. Djorwé , Y. Pennec , B. Djafari-Rouhani

We numerically study topological effects of electromagnetic (EM) waves in a two-dimensional (2D) non-Hermitian photonic crystal (PhC) composed of lossy magneto-optical materials. In this system, not only the EM wavefunctions but also the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Huyen Thanh Phan , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We present a general theory of spontaneous emission at exceptional points (EPs)---exotic degeneracies in non-Hermitian systems. Our theory extends beyond spontaneous emission to any light--matter interaction described by the local density…

We study a variant of the Haldane honeycomb model that has non-reciprocal hoppings between the next-nearest neighbours. The system on a torus hosts time-reversal symmetry protected exceptional rings(ER) in the spectrum. The ERs act as…

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Capturing the interplay between electronic correlations and many-particle entanglement requires a unified framework for Hamiltonian and eigenbasis renormalization. In this work, we apply the unitary renormalization group (URG) scheme…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-25 Anirban Mukherjee , Siddhartha Lal

The conventional toy-model constructions of phase diagrams often use various versions of the standard Hermitian Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonians $H$. These studies were recently extended to cover several non-Hermitian PT-symmetric versions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Miloslav Znojil

Significant work has gone into determining the minimal set of entropy inequalities that determine the holographic entropy cone. Holographic systems with three or more parties have been shown to obey additional inequalities that generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-15 Emory Brown , Ning Bao , Sepehr Nezami

We show that arbitrarily high-order exceptional points (EPs) can be achieved in a repulsively interacting two-species Bose gas in one dimension. By exactly solving the non-Hermitian two-boson problem, we demonstrate the existence of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-23 Lei Pan , Shu Chen , Xiaoling Cui

We calculate the holographic entanglement entropy for the holographic QCD phase diagram considered in [Knaute, Yaresko, K\"ampfer (2017), arXiv:1702.06731] and explore the resulting qualitative behavior over the temperature-chemical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 J. Knaute , B. Kämpfer

Skin effect that all eigenmodes within a frequency range become edge states is dictated by the topological properties of complex eigenvalues unique in non-Hermitian systems. The prevailing attempts to realize such a fascinating effect are…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-04 Zhening Fang , Mengying Hu , Lei Zhou , Kun Ding