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A simple matrix model that has been used to describe essential features of a PT symmetric set-up of three coupled wave guides is investigated. The emphasis of the study lies on the occurrence of an exceptional point of third order. It is…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-29 WD Heiss , G Wunner

In this paper, we have considered how to detect the processes of plane gravitational waves colliding. The degenerate Ferrari-Ibanez solution describes the collision of plane gravitational waves with aligned linear polarization, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Dongdong Wei , Xinhe Meng , Bin Wang

We introduce the one-dimensional PT-symmetric Schrodinger equation, with complex potentials in the form of the canonical superoscillatory and suboscillatory functions known in quantum mechanics and optics. While the suboscillatory-like…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yaniv Eliezer , Alon Bahabad , Boris A. Malomed

Spectra of the second derivative operators corresponding to the special PT-symmetric point interactions are studied. The results are partly the completion of those obtained in [1]. The particular PT-symmetric point interactions causing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Petr Siegl

The spectra of a particular class of PT symmetric eigenvalue problems has previously been studied, and found to have an extremely rich structure. In this paper we present an explanation for these spectral properties in terms of quantisation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Sorrell

The relevance of parity and time reversal (PT)-symmetric structures in optical systems is known for sometime with the correspondence existing between the Schrodinger equation and the paraxial equation of diffraction where the time parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Bijan Bagchi , Subhrajit Modak , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

A ${\cal PT }$-symmetric model for three interacting wave guides is investigated. Each wave guide is represented by an attractive $\delta$-function potential being in equidistant positions. The two outer potentials are complex describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 W D Heiss , G Wunner

We consider two-dimensional waveguide with a rectangular obstacle symmetric about the axis of the waveguie. We study the behaviour of the Neumann eigenvalues located below the first threshold when the sides of the obstacle approach the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 H. Hawkins , L. Parnovski

It is believed that there are extra fundamental gauge symmetries beyond these described by the Standard Model of particle physics. The scale of these new gauge symmetries are usually too high to be reachable by particle colliders.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-01 Wei Chao , Wen-Feng Cui , Huai-Ke Guo , Jing Shu

The impact of an anti-unitary symmetry on the spectrum of non-hermitean operators is studied. Wigner's normal form of an anti-unitary operator is shown to account for the spectral properties of non-hermitean, PT-symmetric Hamiltonians. Both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Weigert

We study, count and locate the exceptional points where eigenvalues collide for certain families of matrices $$R(s,t) = \cos(s \pi / 2)C + \sin(s \pi / 2)U(t), \quad s,t \in [0,1]$$ where $C$ is a realization of a Ginibre random matrix, or…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Carlos Vargas

The visualization of an exceptional point in a PT symmetric directional coupler(DC) is demonstrated. In such a system the exceptional point can be probed by varying only a single parameter. Using the Rayleigh-Schroedinger perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shachar Klaiman , Nimrod Moiseyev , Uwe Gunther

The goal of the paper is to investigate the dynamics of the eigenvalues of the Sturm-Liouville operator with summable PT-symmetric potential on the finite interval. It turns out that the case of a complex Airy operator presents an exactly…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-27 A. A. Shkalikov , S. N. Tumanov

This work is concerned with the propagation of electromagnetic waves in isotropic chiral media and with the effects produced by a plane boundary between two such media. In analogy with the phenomena of reflection and refraction of plane…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose F. Nieves , Palash B. Pal

Many physical systems can be described by nonlinear eigenvalues and bifurcation problems with a linear part that is non-selfadjoint e.g. due to the presence of loss and gain. The balance of these effects is reflected in an antilinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 Tomas Dohnal , Petr Siegl

We investigate the eigengenvalues problem for self-adjoint operators with the singular perturbations. The general results presented here includes weakly as well as strongly singular cases. We illustrate these results on two models which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylwia Kondej

In this paper we survey some recent results concerning scattering and non-scattering in the context of the linear Helmholtz equation and inhomogeneities of nontrivial contrast. We examine isotropic as well as anisotropic media. Part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Fioralba Cakoni , Michael S. Vogelius

We study the unconventional transmission properties of a wave-packet through a PT-symmetric potential region, as describing actual electromagnetic wave propagation along a waveguide filled with gain and loss media. The non-trivial behavior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 M. Di Mauro , S. Esposito , A. Naddeo

We discuss a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian with complex eigenvalues. It is based on the dimensionless Schr\"{o}dinger equation for a particle in a square box with the PT-symmetric potential $V(x,y)=iaxy$. Perturbation theory clearly shows that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Francisco M Fernández , Javier Garcia

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