Resolving the topology of encircling multiple exceptional points

Chitres Guria, Qi Zhong, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Yogesh S. S. Patil, Ramy El-Ganainy () and Jack Gwynne Emmet Harris ()
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Chitres Guria: Yale University
Qi Zhong: Michigan Technological University
Sahin Kaya Ozdemir: The Pennsylvania State University
Yogesh S. S. Patil: Yale University
Ramy El-Ganainy: Michigan Technological University
Jack Gwynne Emmet Harris: Yale University

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Non-Hermiticity has emerged as a new paradigm for controlling coupled-mode systems in ways that cannot be achieved with conventional techniques. One aspect of this control that has received considerable attention recently is the encircling of exceptional points (EPs). To date, most work has focused on systems consisting of two modes that are tuned by two control parameters and have isolated EPs. While these systems exhibit exotic features related to EP encircling, it has been shown that richer behavior occurs in systems with more than two modes. Such systems can be tuned by more than two control parameters, and contain EPs that form a knot-like structure. Control loops that encircle this structure cause the system’s eigenvalues to trace out non-commutative braids. Here we consider a hybrid scenario: a three-mode system with just two control parameters. We describe the relationship between control loops and their topology in the full and two-dimensional parameter space. We demonstrate this relationship experimentally using a three-mode mechanical system in which the control parameters are provided by optomechanical interaction with a high-finesse optical cavity.

Date: 2024
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