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 …

Non-Hermitian optics and photonics: from classical to quantum

C Wang, Z Fu, W Mao, J Qie, AD Stone… - Advances in Optics and …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Non-Hermitian optics is a burgeoning field at the intersection of quantum physics,
electrodynamics, and nanophotonics. It provides a new perspective of the role of gain and …

Engineered disorder in photonics

S Yu, CW Qiu, Y Chong, S Torquato, N Park - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is
ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

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 …

Higher-dimensional supersymmetric microlaser arrays

X Qiao, B Midya, Z Gao, Z Zhang, H Zhao, T Wu, J Yim… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The nonlinear scaling of complexity with the increased number of components in integrated
photonics is a major obstacle impeding large-scale, phase-locked laser arrays. Here, we …

Theory and applications of high-voltage triboelectric nanogenerators

Y Bai, H Feng, Z Li - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2022 - cell.com
As an emerging energy-harvesting technology, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have
made rapid progress in the past decade. Alongside the well-known self-powering behavior …

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 …

Experimental Observation of Symmetry Breaking near Divergent Exceptional Points

M Sakhdari, M Hajizadegan, Q Zhong… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Standard exceptional points (EPs) are non-Hermitian degeneracies that occur in open
systems. At an EP, the Taylor series expansion becomes singular and fails to converge—a …