Observation of parity-time symmetry in optics

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 192-195

  Rüter, Christian E ^a   Makris, Konstantinos G ^b   El Ganainy, Ramy ^b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^c   Kip, Detlef ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

HAMILTONIAN OPERATORS; LEFT-RIGHT SYMMETRY; NON-HERMITIAN HAMILTONIANS; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; PARITYTIME SYMMETRIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OBSERVABLES; TRANSVERSE ENERGY FLOWS;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 77950489224     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1515     Document Type: Article

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