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Dissipative Properties of Systems Composed of High-Loss and Lossless Components

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-03 v3 math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We study here dissipative properties of systems composed of two components one of which is highly lossy and the other is lossless. A principal result of our studies is that all the eigenmodes of such a system split into two distinct classes characterized as high-loss and low-loss. Interestingly, this splitting is more pronounced the higher the loss of the lossy component. In addition, the real frequencies of the high-loss eigenmodes can become very small and even can vanish entirely, which is the case of overdamping.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4122,
  title  = {Dissipative Properties of Systems Composed of High-Loss and Lossless Components},
  author = {Alexander Figotin and Aaron Welters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4122},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Revision; Improved exposition and typos corrected; 45 pages, 4 figures