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Non-hermitian model for resonant cavities coupled by a chiral mirror

Quantum Physics 2015-05-05 v3

Abstract

Inspired by a recently observed asymmetry in the transmission of circularly polarized light through a metamaterial, we present a non-hermitian PT-symmetric quantum model to describe the interaction of the light fields in two resonant cavities coupled via a 2D-chiral mirror. We compute the time evolution of the light fields in this model, find two sets of operators compatible with the hamiltonian in a delocalized representation, discover the energies of the system and show that the transmission probability predicted by the model is indeed asymmetric.

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@article{arxiv.1209.0819,
  title  = {Non-hermitian model for resonant cavities coupled by a chiral mirror},
  author = {Roberto Baginski B. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0819},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages; published in Europhysics Letters; fixed typo at Eq (38)