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SUBMITTER: Mullers A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086614 | biostudies-other | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Müllers Andreas A Santra Bodhaditya B Baals Christian C Jiang Jian J Benary Jens J Labouvie Ralf R Zezyulin Dmitry A DA Konotop Vladimir V VV Ott Herwig H
Science advances 20180810 8
Coherent perfect absorption is the complete extinction of incoming radiation by a complex potential in a physical system supporting wave propagation. The concept was proven for linear waves in a variety of systems including light interacting with absorbing scatterers, plasmonic metasurfaces, and graphene films, as well as sound waves. We extend the paradigm to coherent perfect absorption of nonlinear waves and experimentally demonstrate it for matter waves in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. ...[more]