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The amplitude of resonant oscillations in a non-Hermitian environment can either decay or grow in time, corresponding to a mode with either loss or gain. When two coupled modes have a specific difference between their loss or gain, a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 N. J. Lambert , A. Schumer , J. J. Longdell , S. Rotter , H. G. L. Schwefel

Exceptional points featuring enhanced energy response to perturbation hold significant potential in detection and measurement of weak signals. Of particular interest is the existence and property of high-order exceptional points in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Tingting Shi , Vasilii Smirnov , Kaiye Shi , Wei Zhang

Superconducting quantum circuits are potential candidates to realize a large-scale quantum computer. The envisioned large density of integrated components, however, requires a proper thermal management and control of dissipation. To this…

The past few years have witnessed growing interests in exceptional points (EPs) in various domains, including photonics, acoustics and electronics. However, EPs have mainly been realized based on the degeneracy of resonances of physical…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-20 Changqing Wang , William R. Sweeney , A. Douglas Stone , Lan Yang

Abstract Reservoir engineering is an important tool for quantum information science and quantum thermodynamics since it allows for preparing and/or protecting special quantum states of single or multipartite systems or to investigate…

The behavior of quantum states at exceptional points and at critical points associated with quantum phase transitions is intriguing yet puzzling. In this study, we present an alternative method for obtaining the Berry potentials using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Chia-Yi Ju , Fu-Hsiang Huang

Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies of non-Hermitian operators where, in addition to the eigenvalues, corresponding eigenmodes become degenerate. Classical and quantum photonic systems with EPs have attracted tremendous attention due…

Phase transitions in open quantum systems, which are associated with the formation of collective states of a large width and of trapped states with rather small widths, are related to exceptional points of the Hamiltonian. Exceptional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. D. Heiss , M. Mueller , I. Rotter

Exceptional points are special parameter points in spectra of open quantum systems, at which resonance energies degenerate and the associated eigenvectors coalesce. Typical examples are Rydberg systems in parallel electric and magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Matthias Feldmaier , Jörg Main , Frank Schweiner , Holger Cartarius , Günter Wunner

Exceptional points, that are spectral degeneracies in the parameter space of non-Hermitian systems, have evoked a massive interest in the optical domain owing to their striking consequences on optical behavior of commonly known systems.…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-18 Krishna Joshi , Sushil Mujumdar

Non-Hermitian spectral degeneracies, known as exceptional points (EPs), feature simultaneous coalescence of both eigenvalues and the associated eigenstates of a system. A host of intriguing EP effects and their applications have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 R. Huang , Ş. K. Özdemir , J. -Q. Liao , F. Minganti , L. -M. Kuang , Franco Nori , H. Jing

Open quantum and wave systems exhibit exotic degeneracies at exceptional points in parameter space that have attracted considerable attention in various fields of physics, including optics and photonics. One reason is the strong response of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jan Wiersig

Particle-exchange machines utilize electronic transport to continuously transfer heat between fermionic reservoirs. Here, we couple a quantum mechanical resonator to a particle-exchange machine hosted in a quantum dot and let the system run…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Sofia Sevitz , Federico Cerisola , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Janet Anders

Quantum reservoir computing employs fixed quantum dynamics as a feature map for machine learning. Integrating multiple quantum reservoirs, however, raises a key question: how few inter-module connections are sufficient to match the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Hon Wai Lau , Aoi Hayashi , Akitada Sakurai , William John Munro , Kae Nemoto

Exceptional points (EPs) are complex singularities of parametric linear operators where two or more eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. EPs are attracting increasing interest in mechanical metamaterials due to their strong potentials for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Weidi Wang , Alireza V. Amirkhizi

A laser exhibits both controllable gain and loss and, under proper design conditions, is an ideal non-Hermitian system allowing the direct observation and engineering of spectral singularities such as exceptional points (EPs). A dual…

We propose an analysis technique for the exceptional points (EPs) occurring in the discrete spectrum of open quantum systems (OQS), using a semi-infinite chain coupled to an endpoint impurity as a prototype. We outline our method to locate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 Savannah Garmon , Ingrid Rotter , Naomichi Hatano , Dvira Segal

Anomalous decoherence in the Jaynes-Cummings model emerges for a certain class of bosonic reservoirs, described by spectral densities with a band edge frequency coinciding with the qubit transition frequency. The special reservoirs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 Filippo Giraldi , Francesco Petruccione

Isolation of a system from its environment is often desirable, from precision measurements to control of individual quantum systems; however, dissipation can also be a useful resource. Remarkably, engineered dissipation enables the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-07 L. D. Tóth , N. R. Bernier , A. Nunnenkamp , A. K. Feofanov , T. J. Kippenberg

Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies in open wave systems where at least two energy levels and their corresponding eigenstates coalesce. We report evidence of the existence of EPs in 3D plasmonic nanostructures. The systems are…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-02 Ashok Kodigala , Thomas Lepetit , Boubacar Kanté