Analysis of Dirac exceptional points and their isospectral Hermitian counterparts

Abstract

Recently, a Dirac exceptional point (EP) was reported in a non-Hermitian system. Unlike a Dirac point in Hermitian systems, this Dirac EP has coalesced eigenstates in addition to the degenerate energy. Also different from a typical EP, the two energy levels connected at this Dirac EP remain real in its vicinity and display a linear instead of square root dispersion, forming a tilted Dirac cone in the hybrid space consisting of a momentum dimension and a synthetic dimension for the strength of non-Hermiticity. In this report, we first present simple three-band and two-band matrix models with a Dirac EP, where the linear dispersion of the tilted Dirac cone can be expressed analytically. Importantly, our analysis also reveals that there exist Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems that have the same (real-valued) energy spectrum in their entire parameter space, with the exception that one or more degeneracies in the former are replaced by Dirac EPs in the later. Finally, we show the existence of an imaginary Dirac cone with an EP at its center.

arXiv comment7 pages, 4 figures

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