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How to spawn an “exceptional ring”

posted September 9, 2015 at 6:00 pm

A schematic drawing of how a ring of exceptional points (shown in white) can be spawned from a Dirac point (a dot), and thus change the dispersion from the normal, widely known conical shape into an exotic lantern-like shape Courtesy of the researchers

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How to spawn an “exceptional ring” (MIT News)

Prof. Marin Soljačić