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The Talbot effect, i.e. the self-imaging property of a periodic wave in near-field diffraction, is a remarkable interference phenomenon in paraxial systems with continuous translational invariance. In crystals, i.e. systems with discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Stefano Longhi

We study the Schr\"odinger equation which comes from the paraxial approximation of the Helmholtz equation in the case where the direction of propagation is tilted with respect to the boundary of the domain. This model has been proposed in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Marie Doumic Jauffret

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when the underlying laws of a physical system are symmetric, but the vacuum state chosen by the system is not. The (3+1)d $\phi^4$ theory is relatively simple compared to other more complex theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-24 Chen-Te Ma , Yiwen Pan , Hui Zhang

The inspiration for this theoretical paper comes from recent experiments on a PT-symmetric system of two coupled optical whispering galleries (optical resonators). The optical system can be modeled as a pair of coupled linear oscillators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda

$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry is a unique platform for light manipulation and versatile use in unidirectional invisibility, lasing, sensing, etc. Broken and unbroken $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric states in non-Hermitian open systems are described by…

The Hamiltonian for a PT-symmetric chain of coupled oscillators is constructed. It is shown that if the loss-gain parameter $\gamma$ is uniform for all oscillators, then as the number of oscillators increases, the region of unbroken…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda , S. P. Klevansky

The coupled discrete linear and Kerr nonlinear Schrodinger equations with gain and loss describing transport on dimers with parity-time PT symmetric potentials are considered. The model is relevant among others to experiments in optical…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-01 J. Pickton , H. Susanto

Non-Hermitian optical systems with parity-time (PT) symmetry have recently revealed many intriguing prospects that outperform conservative structures. The prevous works are mostly rooted in complex arrangements with controlled gain-loss…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-13 Yue Jiang , Yefeng Mei , Ying Zuo , Yanhua Zhai , Jensen Li , Jianming Wen , Shengwang Du

We consider the role of degeneracy in Parity-Time (PT) symmetry breaking for non-hermitian wave equations beyond one dimension. We show that if the spectrum is degenerate in the absence of T-breaking, and T is broken in a generic manner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Li Ge , A. Douglas Stone

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

The appearances of complex eigenvalues in the spectra of PT-symmetric quantum-mechanical systems are usually associated with a spontaneous breaking of PT. In this letter we discuss a family of models for which this phenomenon is also linked…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick Dorey , Clare Dunning , Roberto Tateo

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…

If supersymmetry turns out to be a symmetry of nature at low energies, the first order of business to measure the soft breaking parameters. But one will also want to understand the symmetry, and its breaking, more microscopically. Two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Michael Dine

We develop a perturbation theory for surfaces confining photons and massive particles in static spherically symmetric spacetimes in terms of two parameters: the mass-to-energy ratio and the deviation of metric functions from a given form,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Kirill Kobialko , Dmitri Gal'tsov

We here calculate the series expansion of the T-matrix for a spheroidal particle in the small-size/long-wavelength limit, up to third lowest order with respect to the size parameter, X, which we will define rigorously for a non-spherical…

This work is devoted to the asymptotic analysis of high frequency wave propagation in random media with long-range dependence. We are interested in two asymptotic regimes, that we investigate simultaneously: the paraxial approximation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Christophe Gomez , Olivier Pinaud

We briefly explain some simple arguments based on pseudo Hermiticity, supersymmetry and PT-symmetry which explain the reality of the spectrum of some non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. Subsequently we employ PT-symmetry as a guiding principle to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-17 Andreas Fring

A non-perturbative quantization of a paraxial electromagnetic field is achieved via a generalized dispersion relation imposed on the longitudinal and the transverse components of the photon wave vector. The theoretical formalism yields a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

We study a parity-time (PT) symmetric ring lattice, with one pair of balanced gain and loss located at opposite positions. The system remains PT-symmetric when threaded by a magnetic flux; however, the PT symmetry is sensitive to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 L. Jin , Z. Song