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Observation ofPT-Symmetry Breaking in Complex Optical Potentials
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In 1998, Bender and Boettcher found that a wide class of Hamiltonians, even though non-Hermitian, can still exhibit entirely real spectra provided that they obey parity-time requirements or PT symmetry. Here we demonstrate experimentally passive PT-symmetry breaking within the realm of optics. This phase transition leads to a loss induced optical transparency in specially designed pseudo-Hermitian guiding potentials.
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- Authors
- Guo, A., Salamo, G. J., Duchesne, D., Morandotti, R., Volatier-Ravat, M., Aimez, V., Siviloglou, G. A., & Christodoulides, D. N.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2009-08-27
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 093902-093902
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2047699813
- Cited by
- 2,748
- References
- 22
- FWCI
- 37.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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