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 …

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 …

Nonradiating photonics with resonant dielectric nanostructures

K Koshelev, G Favraud, A Bogdanov, Y Kivshar… - …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Nonradiating sources of energy have traditionally been studied in quantum mechanics and
astrophysics but have received very little attention in the photonics community. This situation …

Parity-time symmetry meets photonics: A new twist in non-Hermitian optics

S Longhi - Europhysics Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, the concept of parity-time $(\mathcal {PT}) $ symmetry, originally
introduced in non-Hermitian extensions of quantum mechanical theories, has come into …

Fermion doubling theorems in two-dimensional non-Hermitian systems for Fermi points and exceptional points

Z Yang, AP Schnyder, J Hu, CK Chiu - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The fermion doubling theorem plays a pivotal role in Hermitian topological materials. It
states, for example, that Weyl points must come in pairs in three-dimensional semimetals …

Flat bands in lattices with non-Hermitian coupling

D Leykam, S Flach, YD Chong - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We study non-Hermitian photonic lattices that exhibit competition between conservative and
non-Hermitian (gain/loss) couplings. A bipartite sublattice symmetry enforces the existence …

Parity–time symmetry synthetic lasers: Physics and devices

B Qi, HZ Chen, L Ge, P Berini… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The invention of the laser has revolutionized modern science and engineering as well as
our daily lives. Recently, a new class of lasers based on concepts borrowed from parity–time …

Exceptional points and asymmetric mode switching in plasmonic waveguides

S Ke, B Wang, C Qin, H Long… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the exceptional points (EPs) in a non-Hermitian system composed of a pair of
graphene sheets with different losses. There are two surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) …

Exceptional point and toward mode-selective optical isolation

A Laha, S Dey, HK Gandhi, A Biswas, S Ghosh - ACS photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian systems have recently attracted considerable
attention owing to unique state-flipping and peculiar phase accumulation features. The …

High-sensitivity real-splitting anti-PT-symmetric microscale optical gyroscope

M De Carlo, F De Leonardis, L Lamberti… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Optical gyroscopes measure the angular velocity using the Sagnac effect. However, the
resonance splitting due to the Sagnac effect is directly proportional to the linear dimensions …