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We analyze the scattering dynamics and spectrum of a quantum particle on a tight-binding lattice subject to a non-Hermitian (purely imaginary) local potential. The reflection, transmission and absorption coefficients are studied as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Phillip C. Burke , Jan Wiersig , Masudul Haque

Non-Hermitian ring-shaped discrete lattices share the appeal with their more popular linear predecessors. Their dynamics controlled by the nearest-neighbor interaction is equally phenomenologically interesting. In comparison, the innovative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-02 Miloslav Znojil

In this letter, we study how the spectrum of pseudo-Hermitian systems is influenced by the ambiguity in the choice of the pseudo-metric operator. In particular, we analyze the case when different parameter-independent choices of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Grigory A. Starkov

We provide a detailed description of the maps associated with spectral interlacing, for rank one perturbations and bordering of symmetric and Hermitian matrices. The arguments rely on standard techniques of nonlinear analysis.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Ricardo S. Leite , Carlos Tomei

In this paper, we compute the Laplacian spectrum of non-commuting graphs of some classes of finite non-abelian groups. Our computations reveal that the non-commuting graphs of all the groups considered in this paper are L-integral. We also…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Parama Dutta , Jutirekha Dutta , Rajat Kanti Nath

We study transport properties of an array created by alternating $(a,b)$ layers with balanced loss/gain characterized by the key parameter $\gamma$. It is shown that for non-equal widths of $(a,b)$ layers, i.e., when the corresponding…

We characterise non-Hermitian Fabry-P\'erot resonances in high-contrast resonator systems and study the properties of their associated resonant modes from continuous differential models. We consider two non-Hermitian effects: the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Bowen Li , Ping Liu , Jiayu Qiu , Yingjie Shao , Alexander Uhlmann

The spectrum of the non-hermitian asymmetric XXZ-chain with additional non-diagonal boundary terms is studied. The lowest lying eigenvalues are determined numerically. For the ferromagnetic and completely asymmetric chain that corresponds…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ulrich Bilstein , Birgit Wehefritz

We establish an asymptotic relation between the spectrum of the discrete Laplacian associated to discretizations of a half-translation surface with a flat unitary vector bundle and the spectrum of the Friedrichs extension of the Laplacian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Siarhei Finski

In this work, $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonians defined on quantum $sl(2, \mathbb R)$ algebras are presented. We study the spectrum of a family of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians written in terms of the generators of the non-standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Ángel Ballesteros , Romina Ramírez , Marta Reboiro

We study spectral properties of Dirichlet Laplacian on the conical layer of the opening angle $\pi-2\theta$ and thickness equal to $\pi$. We demonstrate that below the continuum threshold which is equal to one there is an infinite sequence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Pavel Exner , Miloš Tater

We will study the spectral problem related to the Laplace operator in a singularly perturbed periodic waveguide. The waveguide is a quasi-cylinder with contains periodic arrangement of inclusions. On the boundary of the waveguide we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-17 F. L. Bakharev , S. A. Nazarov , K. M. Ruotsalainen

In this work, we study the non-hermitian Swanson hamiltonian, particularly the non-PT symmetry phase. We use the formalism of Gel'fand triplet to construct the generalized eigenfunctions and the corresponding spectrum. Depending on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 V. Fernández , R. Ramírez , M. Reboiro

We derive a two-terms asymptotics for eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian in a narrow strip of variable width. The asymptotics is taken with respect to a small paprameter that characterizes the width of the strip.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-29 Leonid Friedlander , Michael Solomyak

Let $\mu_1\ge \mu_2\ge\cdots\ge\mu_n$ denote the Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$ with $n$ vertices. The Laplacian-energy-like invariant, denoted by $LEL(G)= \sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\sqrt{\mu_i}$, is a novel topological index. In this paper, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Jia-Bao Liu , Xiang-Feng Pan , Fu-Tao Hu , Feng-Feng Hu

We present a systematic collection of spectral surgery principles for the Laplacian on a metric graph with any of the usual vertex conditions (natural, Dirichlet or $\delta$-type), which show how various types of changes of a local or…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Gregory Berkolaiko , James B. Kennedy , Pavel Kurasov , Delio Mugnolo

We study the symmetry properties of the spectra of normalized Laplacians on signed graphs. We find a new machinery that generates symmetric spectra for signed graphs, which includes bipartiteness of unsigned graphs as a special case.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Fatihcan M. Atay , Bobo Hua

We investigate the spectral properties and dynamical features of a time-periodic PT-symmetric Hamiltonian on a one-dimensional tight-binding lattice. It is shown that a high-frequency modulation can drive the system under a transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-06 Giuseppe Della Valle , Stefano Longhi

We study self-acceleration in PT and non-PT symmetric systems. We find some novel wave effects that appear uniquely in non-Hermitian systems. We show that integrable self-accelerating waves exist if the Hamiltonian is non-Hermitian. We find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 C. Yuce , Z. Turker

The spectrum of the normalized graph Laplacian yields a very comprehensive set of invariants of a graph. In order to understand the information contained in those invariants better, we systematically investigate the behavior of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Anirban Banerjee , Jürgen Jost