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Steering entanglement through exceptional points in non-hermitian cavity magnomechanics

Chenhui Yu, Wu-Ming Liu, Kashif Ammar Yasir

Published Dec 3, 2025• 5 citations
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Abstract

Cavity magnomechanical systems, which coherently couple magnons, photons, and phonons, offer a powerful platform for exploring quantum phenomena and developing hybrid quantum technologies. We study a non-Hermitian cavity magnomechanical system featuring a yttrium iron garnet (YIG) sphere driven by an external magnetic field, where magnons interact with cavity photons via magnetic dipole coupling and with phonons via magnetostrictive forces. Non-Hermiticity is introduced through a traveling optical field that directly excites the YIG sphere, enabling precise control over parity-time (PT) symmetry. Analysis of the eigenfrequency spectrum reveals a third-order exceptional point (EP) that demarcates distinct PT-symmetric phases: a unique configuration with coexisting broken and protected PT-symmetry regimes, tunable via the interplay of the traveling field strength and magnon-photon coupling. We also verify this by measuring the divergence around EP with Petermann Factor. Crucially, the system exhibits stable PT-symmetry only at specific field incidence angles, with instability or broken symmetry dominating elsewhere. Beyond PT-symmetry, we demonstrate robust quantum entanglement among the magnon, photon, and phonon subsystems. The exceptional point serves as a critical boundary, with unbroken and broken PT symmetry phases enabling dynamic entanglement swapping between subsystem pairs. By modulating the non-Hermitian parameters, we achieve controlled entanglement transfer and suppression of fluctuations, highlighting the system’s potential for quantum information processing. These results establish a direct connection between non-Hermitian topology, dynamical stability, and quantum correlations, providing a framework for leveraging PT symmetry in cavity magnomechanics for quantum technologies.

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10.1038/s41535-025-00826-8

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