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We consider finite-dimensional nonlinear systems with linear part described by a parity-time (PT-) symmetric operator. We investigate bifurcations of stationary nonlinear modes from the eigenstates of the linear operator and consider a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-01 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

A two-mode optical parity-time (PT) symmetric system, with gain and damping, described by a quantum quadratic Hamiltonian with additional small Kerr-like nonlinear terms, is analyzed from the point of view of nonclassical-light generation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Jan Perina , Antonin Luks , Joanna K. Kalaga , Wieslaw Leonski , Adam Miranowicz

We introduce a planar waveguide of constant width with non-Hermitian PT-symmetric Robin boundary conditions. We study the spectrum of this system in the regime when the boundary coupling function is a compactly supported perturbation of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-19 Denis Borisov , David Krejcirik

We introduce and develop a novel approach to extend the ordinary two-flavor neutrino oscillation formalism in matter using a non-Hermitian PT symmetric effective Hamiltonian. The condition of PT symmetry is weaker and less mathematical than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-14 Tommy Ohlsson

The recent progress in the context of elastic metamaterials and modulated waveguides with digitally controllable properties has opened new pathways to overcome the limitations dictated by Hermitian Hamiltonians in mechanics. Among the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Emanuele Riva

We investigate the potential for controlling a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a one-dimensional optical superlattice. Our control strategy combines Bloch oscillations originating from accelerating the lattice and from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Brendan Reid , Maria Moreno-Cardoner , Jacob Sherson , Gabriele De Chiara

SUSY partnership between singular potentials often breaks down. Via regularization it can be restored on certain ad hoc subspaces of Hilbert space [Das and Pernice, Nucl. Phys. B 561 (1999) 357]. Within the naturally complexified (so called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Miloslav Znojil

Atomic wave packets loaded into a phase-modulated vertical optical-lattice potential exhibit a coherent delocalization dynamics arising from intraband transitions among Wannier-Stark levels. Wannier-Stark intraband transitions are here…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Ivanov , A. Alberti , M. Schioppo , G. Ferrari , M. Artoni , M. L. Chiofalo , G. M. Tino

We discuss the phase diagram and properties of global vortices in the non-Hermitian parity-time-symmetric relativistic model possessing two interacting scalar complex fields. The phase diagram contains stable PT-symmetric regions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-01 A. M. Begun , M. N. Chernodub , A. V. Molochkov

In spatially periodic Hermitian systems, such as electronic systems in crystals, the band structure is described by the band theory in terms of the Bloch wave functions, which reproduce energy levels for large systems with open boundaries.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami

The energy bands of non-Hermitian systems exhibit nontrivial topological features that arise from the complex nature of the energy spectrum. Under periodic boundary conditions (PBC), the energy spectrum describes rather generally closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

In this article we obtain asymptotic formulas for the Bloch eigenvalues of the operator generated by a system of Schrodinger equations with periodic PT-symmetric complex-valued coefficients. Then using these formulas we classify the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-13 O. A. Veliev

Periodic potentials with flat bands in their spectra support strongly localized nonlinear excitations. Although a perfectly flat band cannot exist in a continuous system, a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in a Zeeman…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-22 Chenhui Wang , Yongping Zhang , Vladimir V. Konotop

We study the properties of an N-site tight-binding ring with parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetric, Hermitian, site-dependent tunneling and a pair of non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric, loss and gain impurities $\pm i\gamma$. The properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Derek D. Scott , Yogesh N. Joglekar

The control of wave scattering in complex non-Hermitian settings is an exciting subject -- often challenging the creativity of researchers and stimulating the imagination of the public. Successful outcomes include invisibility cloaks,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Jared Erb , Nadav Shaibe , Robert Calvo , Daniel Lathrop , Thomas Antonsen , Tsampikos Kottos , Steven M. Anlage

Non-radiative wireless power transfer (WPT) technology has made considerable progress with the application of the parity-time (PT) symmetry concept. In this letter, we extend the standard second-order PT-symmetric Hamiltonian to high-order…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Xianglin Hao , Ke Yin , Jianlong Zou , Ruibin Wang , Yuangen Huang , Xikui Ma , Tianyu Dong

The capability to temporarily arrest the propagation of optical signals is one of the main challenges hampering the ever more widespread use of light in rapid long-distance transmission as well as all-optical on-chip signal processing or…

Quantum chaotic dynamics is obtained for a tight-binding model in which the energies of the atomic levels at the boundary sites are chosen at random. Results for the square lattice indicate that the energy spectrum shows a complex behavior…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Cuevas , E. Louis , J. A. Verges

To observe synchronization in a large network of classical or quantum systems demands both excellent control of the interactions between the nodes and very accurate preparation of the initial conditions due to the involved nonlinearities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Christopher W. Wächtler , Gloria Platero

In this paper we introduce Parity-Time ($\cal PT$) symmetric perturbation to a one-dimensional Lieb lattice, which is otherwise $\cal P$-symmetric and has a flat band. In the flat band there are a multitude of degenerate dark states, and…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-25 Li Ge