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PT-symmetry Management in Oligomer Systems

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

We study the effects of management of the PT-symmetric part of the potential within the setting of Schr\"odinger dimer and trimer oligomer systems. This is done by rapidly modulating in time the gain/loss profile. This gives rise to a number of interesting properties of the system, which are explored at the level of an averaged equation approach. Remarkably, this rapid modulation provides for a controllable expansion of the region of exact PT-symmetry, depending on the strength and frequency of the imposed modulation. The resulting averaged models are analyzed theoretically and their exact stationary solutions are translated into time-periodic solutions through the averaging reduction. These are, in turn, compared with the exact periodic solutions of the full non-autonomous PT-symmetry managed problem and very good agreement is found between the two.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3738,
  title  = {PT-symmetry Management in Oligomer Systems},
  author = {R. L. Horne and J. Cuevas and P. G. Kevrekidis and N. Whitaker and F. Kh. Abdullaev and D. J. Frantzeskakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3738},
  year   = {2015}
}