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posted on 2023-01-12, 15:28 authored by David Bachmann, Mathieu Isoard, Vyacheslav Shatokhin, Giacomo Sorelli, Nicolas Treps, Andreas BuchleitnerWe show that instantaneous spatial singular modes of light in a dynamically evolving, turbulent atmosphere offer significantly improved high-fidelity signal transmission as compared to standard encoding bases corrected by adaptive optics. Their enhanced stability in stronger turbulence is associated with a subdiffusive algebraic decay of the transmitted power with evolution time.