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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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 R. L. Horne , J. Cuevas , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker , F. Kh. Abdullaev , D. J. Frantzeskakis

A mechanism for electrically tunable PT-symmetric magnonic lasing and anti-lasing is proposed along with a device consisting of a current-biased region in a magnetically ordered planar waveguide. Within the bias area, several heavy-metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-18 Xi-guang Wang , Tian-xiang Lu , Guang-hua Guo , Jamal Berakdar , Hui Jing

A new class of solitary waves arises in the solution of nonlinear wave equations with constant impedance and no dispersive terms. They depend on a balance between nonlinearity and a dispersion-like effect due to spatial variation in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-17 David I. Ketcheson , Manuel Quezada de Luna

The existence and stability of defect solitons supported by parity-time (PT) symmetric superlattices with nonlocal nonlinearity are investigated. In the semi-infinite gap, in-phase solitons are found to exist stably for positive or zero…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-17 Sumei Hu , Daquan Lu , Xuekai Ma , Qi Guo , Wei Hu

The extreme events are investigated for an $n$-component nonlinear Schr\"odinger ($n$-NLS) system in the focusing Kerr-like nonlinear media, which appears in many physical fields. We report and discuss the novel multi-parametric families of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-11-19 Guoqiang Zhang , Liming Ling , Zhenya Yan , Vladimir V. Konotop

We report the bright solitons of the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation with some types of physically relevant parity-time-(PT-) and non-PT-symmetric potentials. We find that the constant momentum coefficient can modulate the linear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-19 Zhenya Yan , Yong Chen , Zichao Wen

Using similarity transformations we construct explicit solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with linear and nonlinear periodic potentials. We present explicit forms of spatially localized and periodic solutions, and study their…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Juan Belmonte Beitia , Vladimir V. Konotop , Victor M. Perez Garcia , Vadym E. Vekslerchik

A real band condition is shown to exist for one dimensional periodic complex non-hermitian potentials exhibiting PT-symmetry. We use an exactly solvable ultralocal periodic potential to obtain the band structure and discuss some spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose M. Cervero , Alberto Rodriguez

We construct one soliton solutions for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with variable quadratic Hamiltonians in a unified form by taking advantage of a complete (super) integrability of generalized harmonic oscillators. The soliton wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Erwin Suazo , Sergei K. Suslov

We investigate the fractional Schr\"odinger equation with a periodic $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential. In the inverse space, the problem transfers into a first-order nonlocal frequency-delay partial differential equation. We show that at…

We show that a vapor of multilevel atoms driven by far-off resonant laser beams, with possibility of interference of two Raman resonances, is highly efficient for creating parity-time (PT) symmetric profiles of the probe-field refractive…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Chao Hang , Guoxiang Huang , Vladimir V. Konotop

Using similarity transformations we construct explicit nontrivial solutions of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with potentials and nonlinearities depending on time and on the spatial coordinates. We present the general theory and use it…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan Belmonte-Beitia , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Vadym Vekslerchik , Vladimir V. Konotop

We study spatial optical solitons in a one-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal created by an array of thin-film nonlinear waveguides, the so-called Dirac-comb nonlinear lattice. We analyze modulational instability of the extended…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

A device performing both the polarization-alignment and the wavelength selection is demonstrated by fabricated device. Waveguides incorporating Bragg gratings for polarization rotation and mode conversion having different widths are placed…

The time-independent nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is solved for two attractive delta-function shaped potential wells where an imaginary loss term is added in one well, and a gain term of the same size but with opposite sign in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 Holger Cartarius , Daniel Haag , Dennis Dast , Günter Wunner

The optical properties of PT-symmetric periodic stack of the layers with balanced loss and gain are examined. We demonstrate that tunnelling phenomenon in periodic structures is connected with excitation of surface waves at the boundaries…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-12 Oksana Shramkova , Giorgios Tsironis

Bloch oscillations (BO) in complex lattices with PT symmetry are theoretically investigated with specific reference to optical BO in photonic lattices with gain/loss regions. Novel dynamical phenomena with no counterpart in ordinary…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-08 S. Longhi

We study the impact of a spatially homogeneous yet non-stationary dielectric permittivity on the dynamical and spectral properties of light. Our choice of potential is motivated by the interest in PT-symmetric systems as an extension of…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-27 Armen G. Hayrapetyan , S. P. Klevansky , Joerg B. Goette

We introduce the simplest one-dimensional nonlinear model with the parity-time (PT) symmetry, which makes it possible to find exact analytical solutions for localized modes ("solitons"). The PT-symmetric element is represented by a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-16 Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo , Boris A. Malomed , Athikom Reoksabutr

We theoretically investigate the optical properties of parity-time (PT)-symmetric three dimensional metamaterials composed of strongly-coupled planar plasmonic waveguides. By tuning the loss-gain balance, we show how the initially isotropic…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Hadiseh Alaeian , Jennifer A. Dionne