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Sunjae Gwak1, Jinhyeok Ryu1, Hyundong Kim1
1Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
An experimental verification of an exceptional point (EP) in a stand-alone chaotic microcavity is a tough issue because as deformation parameters are fixed the traditional frequency analysis methods cannot be applied any more. Through numerical investigations with an asymmetric Reuleaux triangle microcavity (ARTM), we find that the eigenvalue difference of paired modes can approach near-zero regardless of nonorthogonality of the modes. In this case, for a definite verification of EPs in experiments, wave function coalescence should be confirmed. For this, we suggest the method of exploiting correlation of far-field patterns (FFPs), which is directly related to spatial mode patterns. In an ARTM, we demonstrate that the FFP correlation of paired modes can be used to confirm wave function coalescence when an eigenvalue difference approaches near zero.
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