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A microwave experiment has been realized to measure the phase difference of the oscillating electric field at two points inside the cavity. The technique has been applied to a dissipative resonator which exhibits a singularity-called exceptional point-in its eigenvalue and eigenvector spectrum. At the singularity, two modes coalesce with a phase difference of pi/2. We conclude that the state excited at the singularity has a definitive chirality.
Dembowski et al. (2003) studied this question.