Exceptional-point dynamics in photonic honeycomb lattices with PT symmetry
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Hamidreza Ramezani,1 Tsampikos Kottos,1,2 Vassilios Kovanis,3 and Demetrios N. Christodoulides4 1Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459, USA 2MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Bunsenstraße 10, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany 3Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, USA 4College of Optics & Photonics-CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA (Received 3 August 2011; revised manuscript received 2 December 2011; published 17 January 2012)
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