Observation of a chiral state in a microwave cavity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Dembowski, C ^a   Dietz, B ^a   Graf H D ^a   Harney, H L ^b   Heine, A ^a   Heiss, W D ^c   Richter, A ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; HAMILTONIANS; MICROWAVES;

CHIRALITY; EIGENVECTOR SPECTRUM; EXCEPTIONAL POINT; MICROWAVE CAVITY;

ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES;

EID: 0037462985     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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