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Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, and particularly parity-time (PT) and anti-PT symmetric Hamiltonians, play an important role in many branches of physics, from quantum mechanics to optical systems and acoustics. Both the PT and anti-PT…

We design and explore PT-symmetric behavior of a hybrid non-Hermitian cavity magnomechanics consisting of a ferromagnetic YIG sphere driven by external magnetic field. Non-Hermicity is engineered by using a traveling field directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Yu Chengyong , Kashif Ammar Yasir

A mechanism for electrically tunable PT-symmetric magnonic lasing and anti-lasing is proposed along with a device consisting of a current-biased region in a magnetically ordered planar waveguide. Within the bias area, several heavy-metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-18 Xi-guang Wang , Tian-xiang Lu , Guang-hua Guo , Jamal Berakdar , Hui Jing

The continuous advancements in ultrafast lasers, characterized by high pulse energy, great average power, and ultrashort pulse duration, have opened up new frontiers and applications in various fields such as high-energy-density science. In…

Advances in topological photonics and non-Hermitian optics have drastically changed our perception on how interdisciplinary concepts may empower unprecedented applications. Bridging the two areas could uncover the reciprocity between…

Nonreciprocal devices that permit wave transmission in only one direction are indispensible in many fields of science including, e.g., electronics, optics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Manipulating phonons using such nonreciprocal devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Jing Zhang , Bo Peng , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Yu-xi Liu , Hui Jing , Xin-you Lu , Yu-long Liu , Lan Yang , Franco Nori

We propose to use cavity optomechanical systems in the regime of optical bistability for the detection of weak harmonic forces. Due to the optomechanical coupling an external force on the mechanical oscillator modulates the resonance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Samuel Aldana , Christoph Bruder , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Implementation of a parity-time (PT) symmetric microwave photonic system in the optical wavelength space with spatial singularity is proposed. In the proposed PT-symmetric microwave photonic system, the gain and loss modes are confined in a…

Parity-time (PT) symmetry has been opening exciting opportunities in optics, yet the required careful balance of loss and gain has been hindering its practical implementations. Here, we propose a gain-free route to PT-symmetry based on…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-18 Huanan Li , Ahmed Mekawy , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alù

Parity-time-symmetric ($\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric) optical waveguide couplers offer a great potential for future applications in integrated optics. Studies of nonlinear $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric couplers present new possibilities for…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Wiktor Walasik , Chicheng Ma , Natalia M. Litchinitser

The application of parity-time (PT) symmetry in optics, especially PT-symmetry breaking, has attracted considerable attention as a novel approach to controlling light propagation. Here, we report optical limiting by two coupled optical…

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of precision measurement devices, such as laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatories and axion detectors. In the shot-noise-limited regime, these resonant detectors are subject to a trade-off…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xiang Li , Jiri Smetana , Amit Singh Ubhi , Joe Bentley , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Haixing Miao , Denis Martynov

Optical systems combining balanced loss and gain profiles provide a unique platform to implement classical analogues of quantum systems described by non-Hermitian parity-time- (PT-) symmetric Hamiltonians and to originate new synthetic…

We demonstrate single-mode lasing of magnon polaritons in a cavity magnonic system enabled by dissipative coupling between two passive modes, microwave cavity mode and magnon mode in a ferrimagnetic spin ensemble. The cavity mode is…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Zi-Qi Wang , Zi-Yuan Wang , Yi-Pu Wang , J. Q. You

The main challenge in the recent demonstration of conventional magnon blockade is to increase the nonlinearity of the system especially in comparison with the dissipation channels. One can consider the Kerr nonlinearity through which magnon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 M. S. Ebrahimi , M. Bagheri Harouni

Driven-dissipative systems provide a natural setting for the emergence of exceptional points -- i.e. non-Hermitian degeneracies where eigenmodes coalesce. These points are important for applications such as sensing, where enhanced…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Mawgan A. Smith , Ryan D. McKenzie , Alban Joseph , Robert L. Stamps , Rair Macêdo

Non-Hermiticity has recently emerged as a rapidly developing field due to its exotic characteristics related to open systems, where the dissipation plays a critical role. In the presence of balanced energy gain and loss with environment,…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-10 Chang Li , Ruisheng Yang , Xinchao Huang , Quanhong Fu , Yuancheng Fan , Fuli Zhang

Over the past decade, parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric Hamiltonians have been experimentally realized in classical, optical settings with balanced gain and loss, or in quantum systems with localized loss. In both realizations, the…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-30 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Andrew K. Harter

We propose an optomechanical nano-gravimeter based on exceptional points. The system is a coupled cavity optomechanical system, in which the gain and loss are applied by driving the cavities with a blue detuned and red detuned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Jian Liu , Lei Chen , Ka-Di Zhu

Fabry-P\'erot (FP) cavities are fundamental and ubiquitous optical elements frequently used in various sensing applications. Here, we introduce a general theoretical framework to study arbitrary light-cavity mode interactions for planar FPs…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-21 Jakub Czuchnowski , Robert Prevedel