Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices

F Xu, X Ma, Q Zhang, HK Lo, JW Pan - Reviews of modern physics, 2020 - APS
In principle, quantum key distribution (QKD) offers information-theoretic security based on
the laws of physics. In practice, however, the imperfections of realistic devices might …

Diffusion metamaterials

Z Zhang, L Xu, T Qu, M Lei, ZK Lin, X Ouyang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Diffusion and wave propagation are both fundamental transport mechanisms, but they have
intrinsically different dynamics, governing equations, and applications. Over the past …

Experimental Determination of -Symmetric Exceptional Points in a Single Trapped Ion

L Ding, K Shi, Q Zhang, D Shen, X Zhang, W Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Exceptional points (EPs) of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with parity-time-reversal (PT)
symmetry have the potential to drastically enhance the capabilities of metrology and sensing …

Breaking anti-PT symmetry by spinning a resonator

H Zhang, R Huang, SD Zhang, Y Li, CW Qiu, F Nori… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Non-Hermitian systems, with symmetric or antisymmetric Hamiltonians under the parity-time
(PT) operations, can have entirely real or imaginary eigenvalues. This fact has led to …

Unconventional singularity in anti-parity-time symmetric cavity magnonics

Y Yang, YP Wang, JW Rao, YS Gui, BM Yao, W Lu… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
By engineering an anti-parity-time (anti-PT) symmetric cavity magnonics system with precise
eigenspace controllability, we observe two different singularities in the same system. One …

Synthetic anti-PT symmetry in a single microcavity

F Zhang, Y Feng, X Chen, L Ge, W Wan - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Non-Hermitian systems based on parity-time (PT) and anti-PT symmetry reveal rich physics
beyond the Hermitian regime. So far, realizations of such symmetric systems have been …

Exceptional-point-engineered cavity magnomechanics

TX Lu, H Zhang, Q Zhang, H **g - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We theoretically study the role of the exceptional point (EP) in a non-Hermitian cavity
magnomechanical (CMM) system, with a tunable dissipative magnon-photon coupling. We …

Topological physics of non-Hermitian optics and photonics: a review

H Wang, X Zhang, J Hua, D Lei, M Lu, Y Chen - Journal of Optics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The notion of non-Hermitian optics and photonics rooted in quantum mechanics and
photonic systems has recently attracted considerable attention ushering in tremendous …

Observation of anti-parity-time-symmetry, phase transitions and exceptional points in an optical fibre

A Bergman, R Duggan, K Sharma, M Tur… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The exotic physics emerging in non-Hermitian systems with balanced distributions of gain
and loss has recently drawn a great deal of attention. These systems exhibit phase …

Nonlinear exceptional points with a complete basis in dynamics

K Bai, JZ Li, TR Liu, L Fang, D Wan, M **ao - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Exceptional points (EPs) are special spectral singularities at which two or more eigenvalues,
and their corresponding eigenvectors, coalesce and become identical. In conventional …