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Absence of Floquet scattering in oscillating non-Hermitian potential wells

Quantum Physics 2015-06-16 v1

Abstract

Scattering of a quantum particle from an oscillating barrier or well does not generally conserve the particle energy owing to energy exchange with the photon field, and an incoming particle-free state is scattered into a set of outgoing (transmitted and reflected) free states according to Floquet scattering theory. Here we introduce two families of oscillating non-Hermitian potential wells in which Floquet scattering is fully suppressed for any energy of the incident particle. The scattering-free oscillating potentials are synthesized by application of the Darboux transformation to the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation. For one of the two families of scattering-free potentials, the oscillating potential turns out to be fully invisible.

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@article{arxiv.1306.0675,
  title  = {Absence of Floquet scattering in oscillating non-Hermitian potential wells},
  author = {S. Longhi and G. Della Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0675},
  year   = {2015}
}

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