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Non-Hermitian topological light steering

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By strategically interfacing non-Hermitian and topological physics, this approach provides a route to controlling topologically protected light paths in an integrated optical platform and demonstrates arbitrary, robust light steering in reconfigurable non- hermitian junctions.
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By strategically interfacing non-Hermitian and topological physics, we demonstrate arbitrary, robust light steering in reconfigurable non-Hermitian junctions, in which chiral topological states can propagate at an interface of the gain and loss domains.

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