Observation of chiral state transfer without encircling an exceptional point.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 2022
Historique:
received: 30 09 2021
accepted: 14 02 2022
entrez: 13 5 2022
pubmed: 14 5 2022
medline: 14 5 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The adiabatic theorem, a corollary of the Schrödinger equation, manifests itself in a profoundly different way in non-Hermitian arrangements, resulting in counterintuitive state transfer schemes that have no counterpart in closed quantum systems. In particular, the dynamical encirclement of exceptional points (EPs) in parameter space has been shown to lead to a chiral phase accumulation, non-adiabatic jumps and topological mode conversion

Identifiants

pubmed: 35546193
doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04542-2
pii: 10.1038/s41586-022-04542-2
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

256-261

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Hadiseh Nasari (H)

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Gisela Lopez-Galmiche (G)

CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Helena E Lopez-Aviles (HE)

CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Alexander Schumer (A)

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria.

Absar U Hassan (AU)

CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Qi Zhong (Q)

CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Stefan Rotter (S)

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria.

Patrick LiKamWa (P)

CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Demetrios N Christodoulides (DN)

CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Mercedeh Khajavikhan (M)

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. khajavik@usc.edu.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. khajavik@usc.edu.

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