Formulation of Dispersive and Dissipative Time-Varying Media as a Floquet Matrix Eigenproblem

Dispersion is ubiquitous in nature as a result of causality, and dispersive time-varying materials have been widely used in the experimental realization of photonic time-varying media. Here, we derive the Floquet Hamiltonian and formulate Maxwell's equations of dispersive time-varying media as a Floquet matrix eigenproblem. The derived Floquet Hamiltonian allows us to investigate the band structures and eigenmodes of the system. Using the eigenmodes, we identify the Floquet π exceptional points by tracking the variation of Aharonov-Anandan phase. Our theory rigorously reformulates existing models and facilitates the development of Floquet Green's function and resonant mode expansion in open photonic time-varying systems.

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Physical Review Letters
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2025-10-09
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https://doi.org/10.1103/lcmw-qrrp
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2
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Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics
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Formulation of Dispersive and Dissipative Time-Varying Media as a Floquet Matrix Eigenproblem

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Dispersion is ubiquitous in nature as a result of causality, and dispersive time-varying materials have been widely used in the experimental realization of photonic time-varying media. Here, we derive the Floquet Hamiltonian and formulate Maxwell's equations of dispersive time-varying media as a Floquet matrix eigenproblem. The derived Floquet Hamiltonian allows us to investigate the band structures and eigenmodes of the system. Using the eigenmodes, we identify the Floquet π exceptional points by tracking the variation of Aharonov-Anandan phase. Our theory rigorously reformulates existing models and facilitates the development of Floquet Green's function and resonant mode expansion in open photonic time-varying systems.

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