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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

A tropical geometric approach to exceptional points.

Ayan Banerjee, Rimika Jaiswal, Madhusudan Manjunath, Awadhesh Narayan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ayan BanerjeeSolid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
Rimika JaiswalUndergraduate Programme, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.ORCID 0000-0003-4409-9682
Madhusudan ManjunathDepartment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India.
Awadhesh NarayanSolid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.ORCID 0000-0003-0127-7047

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DST | Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) MATRICSDST | Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) SRG/2020/000153
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Abstract

Non-Hermitian systems have been widely explored in platforms ranging from photonics to electric circuits. A defining feature of non-Hermitian systems is exceptional points (EPs), where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. Tropical geometry is an emerging field of mathematics at the interface between algebraic geometry and polyhedral geometry, with diverse applications to science. Here, we introduce and develop a unified tropical geometric framework to characterize different facets of non-Hermitian systems. We illustrate the versatility of our approach using several examples and demonstrate that it can be used to select from a spectrum of higher-order EPs in gain and loss models, predict the skin effect in the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, and extract universal properties in the presence of disorder in the Hatano-Nelson model. Our work puts forth a framework for studying non-Hermitian physics and unveils a connection of tropical geometry to this field.

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exceptional pointsnon-Hermitian systemstropical geometry

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PMID37307466
PMCPMC10288587

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