Exceptional points and non-Hermitian photonics at the nanoscale

A Li, H Wei, M Cotrufo, W Chen, S Mann, X Ni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Exceptional points (EPs) arising in non-Hermitian systems have led to a variety of intriguing
wave phenomena, and have been attracting increased interest in various physical platforms …

A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials

JM Luque-González, A Sánchez-Postigo… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

Sideband-free space–time-coding metasurface antennas

GB Wu, JY Dai, Q Cheng, TJ Cui, CH Chan - Nature electronics, 2022 - nature.com
Applications such as microwave wireless communications, optical light fidelity, and light
detection and ranging systems require advanced interfaces that can couple guided waves …

Controlling sound in non-hermitian acoustic systems

Z Gu, H Gao, PC Cao, T Liu, XF Zhu, J Zhu - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
The concept of non-Hermitian physics has inspired numerous intriguing phenomena in
classical wave systems. By introducing judicious arrangements of gain and loss media, non …

Fast encirclement of an exceptional point for highly efficient and compact chiral mode converters

X Shu, A Li, G Hu, J Wang, A Alù, L Chen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies at which two or more eigenvalues and
eigenstates of a physical system coalesce. Dynamically encircling EPs by varying the …

Riemann-encircling exceptional points for efficient asymmetric polarization-locked devices

A Li, W Chen, H Wei, G Lu, A Alù, CW Qiu, L Chen - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Dynamically encircling exceptional points (EPs) have unveiled intriguing chiral dynamics in
photonics. However, the traditional approach based on an open manifold of Hamiltonian …

Enhancement of quantum heat engine by encircling a Liouvillian exceptional point

JT Bu, JQ Zhang, GY Ding, JC Li, JW Zhang, B Wang… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Quantum heat engines are expected to outperform the classical counterparts due to
quantum coherences involved. Here we experimentally execute a single-ion quantum heat …

Chiral transmission by an open evolution trajectory in a non-Hermitian system

X Shu, Q Zhong, K Hong, O You, J Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Exceptional points (EPs), at which two or more eigenvalues and eigenstates of a resonant
system coalesce, are associated with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with gain and/or loss …

Effective Hamiltonian for photonic topological insulator with non-Hermitian domain walls

Y Li, C Fan, X Hu, Y Ao, C Lu, CT Chan, DM Kennes… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The gain and loss in photonic lattices provide possibilities for many functional phenomena.
In this Letter, we consider photonic topological insulators with different types of gain-loss …

General rules governing the dynamical encircling of an arbitrary number of exceptional points

F Yu, XL Zhang, ZN Tian, QD Chen, HB Sun - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Dynamically encircling an exceptional point in non-Hermitian systems has drawn great
attention recently, since a nonadiabatic transition process can occur and lead to intriguing …