{"title":"Parity-Time symmetry helps breaking a new limit","authors":"Wenjie Wan, Xiaoshun Jiang","doi":"10.1038/s41377-024-01577-0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parity-Time (PT) symmetry is an emerging concept in quantum mechanics where non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit real eigenvalues. Now, PT symmetric optical microresonators have been demonstrated to break the bandwidth-efficiency limit for nonlinear optical signal processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":20.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Light-Science & Applications","FirstCategoryId":"1089","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01577-0","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"OPTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Parity-Time (PT) symmetry is an emerging concept in quantum mechanics where non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit real eigenvalues. Now, PT symmetric optical microresonators have been demonstrated to break the bandwidth-efficiency limit for nonlinear optical signal processing.