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Exceptional points (EPs) are special singularities of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. At an EP, two or more eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenstates coalesce. Recently, EP-based optical gyroscope near an EP was extensively investigated to…

One of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of non-Hermitian systems is their spectral degeneracies, i.e., exceptional points (EPs), at which both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce to form a defective state space. While coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Kuangyin Deng , Xin Li , Benedetta Flebus

The non-Hermitian dynamics of open systems deal with how intricate coherent effects of a closed system intertwine with the impact of coupling to an environment. The system-environment dynamics can then lead to so-called exceptional points,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-12 Andisheh Khedri , Dominic Horn , Oded Zilberberg

Exceptional points (EPs), a unique feature of non-Hermitian systems, represent degeneracies in non-Hermitian operators that likely do not occur in Hermitian systems. Nevertheless, unlike its fermionic counterpart, a Hermitian bosonic Kitaev…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 D. K. He , Z. Song

The nontrivial degeneracies in non-Hermitian systems, exceptional points (EPs), have attracted extensive attention due to intriguing phenomena. Compared with commonly observed second-order EPs, high-order EPs show rich physics due to their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Yue Li , Yang Wu , Yuqi Zhou , Mengxiang Zhang , Xingyu Zhao , Yibo Yuan , Xu Cheng , Yi Li , Xi Qin , Xing Rong , Yiheng Lin , Jiangfeng Du

Higher-order exceptional points (EPs), which appear as multifold degeneracies in the spectra of non-Hermitian systems, are garnering extensive attention in various multidisciplinary fields. However, constructing higher-order EPs still…

A short resume is given about the nature of exceptional points (EPs) followed by discussions about their ubiquitous occurrence in a great variety of physical problems. EPs feature in classical as well as in quantum mechanical problems. They…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 W. D. Heiss

Exceptional points (EPs) are peculiar band singularities and play a vital role in a rich array of unusual optical phenomena and non-Hermitian band theory. In this paper, we provide a topological classification of isolated EPs based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Haiping Hu , Shikang Sun , Shu Chen

Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian photonics offer singular sensitivity enhancements but have thus far been realized almost exclusively in spatially engineered platforms with fixed geometries and limited tunability. Here we extend EP…

Recent studies on non-Hermitian optical systems having exceptional points (EPs) have revealed a host of unique characteristics associated with these singularities, including unidirectional invisibility, chiral mode switching and laser…

Exceptional points of order $n$ (EP$n$s) appear in non-Hermitian systems as points where the eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. They emerge if $2(n-1)$ real constraints are imposed, such that EP2s generically appear in two dimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Anton Montag , Flore K. Kunst

Non-Hermitian topological phenomena occur in mechanical systems described by the Newton equation. A mechanical graphene, which is composed of mass points and springs, shows symmetry-protected exceptional rings (SPERs) in the presence of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-28 Gen Najima , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The dynamics of spontaneous emission of an atomic system is studied in the framework of an open quantum system. The resulting quantum master equation for the atomic system is non hermitian. The generator $\mathcal{L}$ can possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Morag Am-Shallem , Ronnie Kosloff , Nimrod Moiseyev

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and exceptional points (EPs) are often assumed to be inherently linked. Here we investigate the intricate relationship between SSB and specific classes of EPs across three distinct, real-world scenarios…

Exceptional points, where two or more eigenstates of a non-Hermitian system coalesce, are now of interest across many fields of physics, from the perspective of open-system dynamics, sensing, nonreciprocal transport, and topological phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Aritra Ghosh , M. Bhattacharya

Parity-time (PT)-symmetric Hamiltonians have widespread significance in non-Hermitian physics. A PT-symmetric Hamiltonian can exhibit distinct phases with either real or complex eigenspectrum, while the transition points in between, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Lei Xiao , Tianshu Deng , Kunkun Wang , Zhong Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

We demonstrate that the non-Hermitian parity-time (PT) symmetric interfaces formed between amplifying and lossy crystals support dissipationless edge states. These PT edge states exhibit gapless spectra in the complex band structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Xiang Ni , Daria Smirnova , Alexander Poddubny , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Alexander B. Khanikaev

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

Decoherence and non-Hermiticity are two different effects of the open quantum systems. Both of them have triggered many interesting phenomena. In this paper, we theoretically study an open two-level non-Hermitian system coupling to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Jian Xu , Youneng Guo

One of the key features of non-Hermitian systems is the occurrence of exceptional points (EPs), spectral degeneracies where the eigenvalues and eigenvectors merge. In this work, we propose applying neural networks to characterize EPs by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-05 Md. Afsar Reja , Awadhesh Narayan
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