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In the present work, we consider a prototypical example of a PT-symmetric Dirac model. We discuss the underlying linear limit of the model and identify the threshold of the PT-phase transition in an analytical form. We then focus on the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-10-05 Jesús Cuevas--Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Avadh Saxena , Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Andrew Comech , Carl M. Bender

PT-symmetric systems can have a real spectrum even when their Hamiltonian is non-hermitian, but develop a complex spectrum when the degree of non-hermiticity increases. Here we utilize random-matrix theory to show that this spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Henning Schomerus

In this paper we study an interacting two-particle system on the positive half-line. We focus on spectral properties of the Hamiltonian for a large class of two-particle potentials. We characterize the essential spectrum and prove, as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Sebastian Egger , Joachim Kerner , Konstantin Pankrashkin

We investigate the effects of a time-periodic, non-hermitian, PT-symmetric perturbation on a system with two (or few) levels, and obtain its phase diagram as a function of the perturbation strength and frequency. We demonstrate that when…

With perfectly balanced gain and loss, dynamical systems with indefinite damping can obey the exact PT-symmetry being marginally stable with a pure imaginary spectrum. At an exceptional point where the symmetry is spontaneously broken, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 Oleg N. Kirillov

The two dimensional set of canonical relations giving rise to minimal uncertainties previously constructed from a q-deformed oscillator algebra is further investigated. We provide a representation for this algebra in terms of a flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-04 Sanjib Dey , Andreas Fring

We study the zero-temperature spin fluctuations of a two-dimensional itinerant-electron system with an incommensurate magnetic ground state described by a single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian. We introduce the (broken-symmetry) magnetic phase at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Arrigoni , G. C. Strinati

In this paper, it is proved that the continuity of the tangential components of the average electric and magnetic fields is insufficient to describe the reflection of plane waves by a set of thin parallel wires embedded in a dielectric host…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Mario G. Silveirinha

We investigate properties of a particle confined to a hard-wall spiral-shaped region. As a case study we analyze in detail the Archimedean spiral for which the spectrum above the continuum threshold is absolutely continuous away from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Pavel Exner , Milos Tater

We study perturbations of the eigenvalue problem for the negative Laplacian plus an indefinite and unbounded potential and Robin boundary condition. First we consider the case of a sublinear perturbation and then of a superlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-11 N. S. Papageorgiou , V. D. Rădulescu , D. D. Repovš

We consider two classes of steady states of the three-dimensional, gravitational Vlasov-Poisson system: the spherically symmetric Antonov-stable steady states (including the polytropes and the King model) and their plane symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Mahir Hadzic , Gerhard Rein , Christopher Straub

We demonstrate the emergence of an entire flat band embedded in dispersive bands at the exceptional point of a PT symmetric photonic lattice. For this to occur, the gain and loss parameter effectively alters the size of the partial flat…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-12 Hamidreza Ramezani

We study zero-temperature stability of topological phases of matter under weak time-independent perturbations. Our results apply to quantum spin Hamiltonians that can be written as a sum of geometrically local commuting projectors on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergey Bravyi , Matthew Hastings , Spyridon Michalakis

Waveguides of subwavelength dimensions with asymmetric geometries, such as rib waveguides, can display nonlinear polarization effects in which the nonlinear phase difference dominates the linear contribution, provided the birefringence is…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Wen Qi Zhang , M. A. Lohe , Tanya M. Monro , V. Shahraam Afshar

Harnessing parity-time (PT) symmetry with balanced gain and loss profiles has created a variety of opportunities in electronics from wireless energy transfer to telemetry sensing and topological defect engineering. However, existing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Weidong Cao , Changqing Wang , Weijian Chen , Song Hu , Hua Wang , Lan Yang , Xuan Zhang

For any inhomogeneous compactly supported electromagnetic (EM) medium, it is shown that there exists an infinite set of linearly independent electromagnetic waves which generate nearly vanishing scattered wave fields. If the inhomogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Hongyu Liu , Yuliang Wang , Shuhui Zhong

Optics has proved a fertile ground for the experimental simulation of quantum mechanics. Most recently, optical realizations of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics have been shown, both theoretically and experimentally, opening the…

O. Waldmann has shown that some spin systems, which fulfill the condition of a weakly homogeneous coupling matrix, have a spectrum whose minimal or maximal energies are rather poorly approximated by a quadratic dependence on the total spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. -J. Schmidt , J. Schnack , Marshall Luban

We derive quantum geometric bounds in spinful systems with spin topology characterized by a single $\mathbb{Z}$ index protected by a spin gap. Our bounds provide geometric conditions on the spin topology, distinct from the known quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Robert-Jan Slager , Gunnar F. Lange

In this paper, we investigate the stability of the linear wave equation where one part of the boundary, which is seen as a lower-dimensional Riemannian manifold, is governed by a coupled wave equation, while the other part is subject to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Nicolas Vanspranghe