Berry phase in an anti-PT symmetric metal-semiconductor complex system.

Berry phase can be used to generate quantum state which is robust to environmental noises in quantum information processing. Recently, the relationship between Berry phase and quantum phase transition attracts great attention in the research about topological states of matter. Here, we investigate the behavior of Berry phase in an anti parity-time symmetric system consisting of a metal nanoparticle and semiconductor quantum dot. The change of Berry phase undergoes a sudden death around exceptional point, i.e., Berry phase keeps unchanged in symmetry unbroken region, while it can be well adjusted through changing the strength and frequency of input light in symmetry broken region. The result demonstrated in this paper may be of significant importance in quantum computation and topological physics. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement