Exceptional points in diamond optomechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27536v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 18:09:24 GMT
• Title: Exceptional points in diamond optomechanics
• Abstract summary: We tune to an exceptional point in a diamond optomechanical crystal.<n>Results establish diamond optomechanical crystals as a platform for non-Hermitian optomechanics.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Multimode cavity optomechanical systems allow light to couple otherwise non-interacting mechanical resonators, enabling non-Hermitian phenomena such as exceptional points, where eigenfrequencies and eigenvectors of coupled modes coalesce. Accessing an exceptional point and its nearby parameter space is a first step towards chiral mode dynamics and topological state transfer. Diamond optomechanical devices support strong coherent optomechanical coupling required to tune resonances to an exceptional point, as well as strain-coupling to spin-defects for hybrid quantum technologies, but have not yet been used for multimode non-Hermitian physics. Here we tune to an exceptional point in a diamond optomechanical crystal, which uses structural symmetry breaking to produce two high-frequency mechanical resonances coupled to an optical cavity. The exceptional point is reached within a stable operating window below the phonon-lasing threshold, and we observe asymmetric redistribution of optomechanical damping and anti-damping between hybridized modes. These results establish diamond optomechanical crystals as a platform for non-Hermitian optomechanics, opening routes to topological mechanical dynamics in hybrid spin-phonon interfaces.

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