Exploring the topology induced by non-Markovian Liouvillian exceptional points
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06311v1
- Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:59:12 GMT
- Title: Exploring the topology induced by non-Markovian Liouvillian exceptional points
- Authors: Hao-Long Zhang, Yan Wang, Wen Ning, Shou-Bang Yang, Jia-Hao Lü, Fan Wu, Pei-Rong Han, Zhen-Biao Yang, Shi-Biao Zheng,
- Abstract summary: Non-Hermitian (NH) systems can display exotic topological phenomena without Hermitian counterparts, enabled by exceptional points (EPs)<n>We study the topological features of the EPs in a system consisting of a qubit coupled to a non-Markovian reservoir.
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- Abstract: Non-Hermitian (NH) systems can display exotic topological phenomena without Hermitian counterparts, enabled by exceptional points (EPs). So far, investigations of NH topology have been restricted to EPs of the NH Hamiltonian, which governs the system dynamics conditional upon no quantum jumps occurring. The Liouvillian superoperator, which combines the effects of quantum jumps with NH Hamiltonian dynamics, possesses EPs (LEPs) that are significantly different from those of the corresponding NH Hamiltonian. We here study the topological features of the LEPs in the system consisting of a qubit coupled to a non-Markovian reservoir. We find that two distinct winding numbers can be simultaneously produced by executing a single closed path encircling the twofold LEP2, formed by two coinciding LEP2s, each involving a pair of coalescing eigenvectors of the extended Liouvillian superoperator. We experimentally demonstrate this purely non-Markovian phenomenon with a circuit, where a superconducting qubit is coupled to a decaying resonator which acts as a reservoir with memory effects. The results push the exploration of exceptional topology from the Markovian to non-Markovian regime.
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