Observation of PT-symmetry breaking in complex optical potentials.
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Summary
This work demonstrates experimentally passive PT-symmetry breaking within the realm of optics, which leads to a loss induced optical transparency in specially designed pseudo-Hermitian guiding potentials.
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- article
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- 2009-08-27
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- 2,267
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- Open access
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Keywords
Hermitian matrix, Physics, Symmetry (geometry), Symmetry breaking, Algorithm
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