Correlated Entropic Uncertainty as a Signature of Exceptional Points

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18856v1
• Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:00:03 GMT
• Title: Correlated Entropic Uncertainty as a Signature of Exceptional Points
• Authors: Kyu-Won Park, Soojoon Lee, Kabgyun Jeong,
• Abstract summary: Non-Hermitian physics has become a fundamental framework for understanding open systems where gain and loss play essential roles.<n>Here we show that it arises from a fundamental entropic uncertainty trade-off between phase entropy and its Fourier representation.<n>Our results establish biorthogonality is not as an anomaly but an intrinsic property of eigenfunctions, arising universal manifestation of uncertainty relation in non-Hermitian systems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Non-Hermitian physics has become a fundamental framework for understanding open systems where gain and loss play essential roles, with impact across photonics, quantum science, and condensed matter. While the role of complex eigenvalues is well established, the nature of the corresponding eigenfunctions has remained a long-standing problem. Here we show that it arises from a fundamental entropic uncertainty trade-off between phase entropy and its Fourier representation. This trade-off enforces a correlated behavior of phase and Fourier entropies near avoided crossings and exceptional points, precisely where the Petermann factor diverges and phase rigidity collapses. Our results establish biorthogonality is not as an anomaly but an intrinsic property of eigenfunctions, arising universal manifestation of uncertainty relation in non-Hermitian systems. Beyond resolving this foundational question, our framework provides a unifying and testable principle that advances the fundamentals of non-Hermitian physics and can be directly verified with existing interferometric techniques.

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