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Vol. 6, Issue 5, PTS1 (2018)

Introduction to non-Hermitian photonics in complex media: PT-symmetry and beyond

Greg Gbur^1、* and Konstantinos Makris²

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¹University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Physics and Optical Science, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, USA

²University of Crete, Physics Department, 71003 Heraklion, Greece

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