Observation of a Chiral State in a Microwave Cavity
Chaotic Dynamics
2009-03-24 v2
Abstract
A microwave experiment has been realized to measure the phase difference of the oscillating electric field at two points inside the cavity. The technique has been applied to a dissipative resonator which exhibits a singularity -- called exceptional point -- in its eigenvalue and eigenvector spectrum. At the singularity, two modes coalesce with a phase difference of We conclude that the state excited at the singularity has a definitiv chirality.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0212023,
title = {Observation of a Chiral State in a Microwave Cavity},
author = {C. Dembowski and B. Dietz and H. -D. Graef and H. L. Harney and A. Heine and W. D. Heiss and A. Richter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0212023},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
RevTex 4, 5 figures