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Circling exceptional points

Going around an exceptional point in a full circle can be a non-adiabatic, asymmetric process. This surprising prediction is now confirmed by two separate experiments.

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Figure 1: Dynamically encircling an exceptional point is a non-adiabatic process.
Figure 2: The transfer efficiency as a function of loop time.

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Heiss, D. Circling exceptional points. Nature Phys 12, 823–824 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3864

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