Being exceptional in higher dimensions

Nanowerk  July 1, 2020 By connecting electromagnetic waves and magnetism to create a system made of magnon polaritons an international team of researchers (USA- Argonne National Laboratory, UK) has demonstrated the existence of an “exceptional surface”. Through experiments, they have shown that EPs form a three-dimensional exceptional surface (ES) when the system is tuned in a four-dimensional synthetic space. They found that an exceptional saddle point (ESP) exists in the ES which originates from the unique couplings between magnons and microwave photons. It exhibits unique anisotropic behaviors in both the real and imaginary parts of the eigenfrequencies. The findings open […]