Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

Parity–time symmetry and exceptional points in photonics

ŞK Özdemir, S Rotter, F Nori, L Yang - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Exploiting the interplay between gain, loss and the coupling strength between different
optical components creates a variety of new opportunities in photonics to generate, control …

Exceptional points in optics and photonics

MA Miri, A Alu - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Singularities are critical points for which the behavior of a mathematical
model governing a physical system is of a fundamentally different nature compared to the …

Nonlinear topological photonics

D Smirnova, D Leykam, Y Chong… - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating
compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses …

Non-Hermitian physics and PT symmetry

R El-Ganainy, KG Makris, M Khajavikhan… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
In recent years, notions drawn from non-Hermitian physics and parity–time (PT) symmetry
have attracted considerable attention. In particular, the realization that the interplay between …

Enhanced sensitivity at higher-order exceptional points

H Hodaei, AU Hassan, S Wittek, H Garcia-Gracia… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Non-Hermitian degeneracies, also known as exceptional points, have recently emerged as
a new way to engineer the response of open physical systems, that is, those that interact …

Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point

M Parto, YGN Liu, B Bahari, M Khajavikhan… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
In the past few years, concepts from non-Hermitian (NH) physics, originally developed within
the context of quantum field theories, have been successfully deployed over a wide range of …

Observation of parity-time symmetry breaking in a single-spin system

Y Wu, W Liu, J Geng, X Song, X Ye, CK Duan, X Rong… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Steering the evolution of single spin systems is crucial for quantum computing and quantum
sensing. The dynamics of quantum systems has been theoretically investigated with parity …

Bulk-boundary correspondence in a non-Hermitian system in one dimension with chiral inversion symmetry

L Jin, Z Song - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Asymmetric coupling amplitudes effectively create an imaginary gauge field, which induces
a non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect. Nonzero imaginary magnetic flux invalidates …

Why does bulk boundary correspondence fail in some non-hermitian topological models

Y Xiong - Journal of Physics Communications, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The bulk-boundary correspondence is crucial to topological insulators. It associates the
existence of boundary states (with zero energy and possessing chiral or helical properties) …