Dynamics of Chiral State Transfer in the Vicinity of a Non-Hermitian Singularity

Hadiseh Nasari^{a b}✉, G. López-Galmiche^a✉, Helena E. Lopez-Aviles^a✉, Alexander Schumer^c✉, Absar U. Hassan^a✉, Qi Zhong^a✉, Stefan Rotter^c✉, Patrick LiKamWa^a✉, Demetrios N. Christodoulides^a✉, Mercedeh Khajavikhan^{b d}✉

1. ^aCREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816–2700, USA
2. ^bMing Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
3. ^cInstitute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, A-1040, Austria
4. ^dDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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