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We construct dark solitons in the recently introduced model of the nonlinear dual-core coupler with the mutually balanced gain and loss applied to the two cores, which is a realization of parity-time symmetry in nonlinear optics. The main…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-18 Yuliy V. Bludov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Boris A. Malomed

We consider a pair of adjacent quantum waveguides, in general of different widths, coupled laterally by a pair of windows in the common boundary, not necessarily of the same length, at a fixed distance. The Hamiltonian is the respective…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. Borisov , P. Exner

Many classes of non-parity-time (PT) symmetric waveguides with arbitrary gain and loss distributions still possess all-real linear spectrum or exhibit phase transition. In this article, nonlinear light behaviors in these complex waveguides…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Sean Nixon , Jianke Yang

Spectral singularities are spectral points that spoil the completeness of the eigenfunctions of certain non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operators. We identify spectral singularities of complex scattering potentials with the real energies at which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-24 Ali Mostafazadeh

In this study we investigate the bound states of the Hamiltonian describing a quantum particle living on three dimensional straight strip of width $d$. We impose the Neumann boundary condition on a disc window of radius $a$ and Dirichlet…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 S. Ben Hariz , M. Ben Salah , H. Najar

We introduce and develop a novel approach to extend the ordinary two-flavor neutrino oscillation formalism in matter using a non-Hermitian PT symmetric effective Hamiltonian. The condition of PT symmetry is weaker and less mathematical than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-14 Tommy Ohlsson

We perform a theoretical study of nonlinear optical isolator devices based on coupled microcavities with gain and loss. Using coupled-mode theory, we derive a correspondence between the boundary of asymptotic stability in the nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-25 Xin Zhou , Yidong Chong

A planar waveguide with impedance boundary, composed of non-perfect metallic plates, and with passive or active dielectric filling is considered. We show the possibility of selective mode guiding and amplification when homogeneous pump is…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-30 Bikashkali Midya , Vladimir V. Konotop

We study electromagnetic field propagation through a planar three-waveguide coupler with linear gain and loss, in a configuration that is the optical analog of a quantum $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric system, and provide its closed-form analytic…

We study resonant mode conversion in the PT-symmetric multimode waveguides, where symmetry breaking manifests itself in sequential destabilization (appearance of the complex eigenvalues) of the pairs of adjacent guided modes. We show that…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Victor A. Vysloukh , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We study the spectral linear elasticity problem in an unbounded periodic waveguide, which consists of a sequence of identical bounded cells connected by thin ligaments of diameter of order $ h >0$. The essential spectrum of the problem is…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-13 F. L. Bakharev , J. Taskinen

We analyze the spectral properties of a particular class of unbounded open sets. These are made of a central bounded ``core'', with finitely many unbounded tubes attached to it. We adopt an elementary and purely variational point of view,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Francesca Bianchi , Lorenzo Brasco , Roberto Ognibene

This work studies a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian spin--boson model, consisting of a non-Hermitian two-level system coupled to a continuous bosonic bath. The static properties of the system are analyzed through a projection method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Yong-Xin Zhang , Qing-Hu Chen

We study the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking in dissipationless resonant tunneling heterostructures (RTS). To describe the quantum transport in this system we apply both the nonequilibrium Green function formalism based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 A. A. Gorbatsevich , N. M. Shubin

We investigate branched PT-symmetric optical lattices. We consider both the linear and nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with a PT-symmetric periodic potential on the graph and solve them by imposing weighted vertex boundary conditions. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-07 O. K. Tojakhmadova , T. Akhmadjanov , M. E. Akramov

We consider a non-relativistic quantum particle interacting with a singular potential supported by two parallel straight lines in the plane. We locate the essential spectrum under the hypothesis that the interaction asymptotically…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Sylwia Kondej , David Krejcirik

The control of wave scattering in complex non-Hermitian settings is an exciting subject -- often challenging the creativity of researchers and stimulating the imagination of the public. Successful outcomes include invisibility cloaks,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Jared Erb , Nadav Shaibe , Robert Calvo , Daniel Lathrop , Thomas Antonsen , Tsampikos Kottos , Steven M. Anlage

The capability to temporarily arrest the propagation of optical signals is one of the main challenges hampering the ever more widespread use of light in rapid long-distance transmission as well as all-optical on-chip signal processing or…

In this work we consider the asymptotic behavior of the nonlinear semigroup defined by a semilinear parabolic problem with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions posed in a bounded region of the plane that degenerates into a line segment…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Marcone C. Pereira

PT-symmetric scattering systems with balanced gain and loss can undergo a symmetry-breaking transition in which the eigenvalues of the non-unitary scattering matrix change their phase shifts from real to complex values. We relate the…