Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Winding around non-Hermitian singularities

  • Qi Zhong,
  • Mercedeh Khajavikhan,
  • Demetrios N. Christodoulides,
  • Ramy El-Ganainy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07105-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A general description of observable effects induced by non-Hermitian singularities is complex. Here, Zhong et al. develop such a formalism, showing that loops around the same exceptional point starting from the same point in the same direction do not need to have the same outcome.