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While gain-loss-coupled photonic platforms have achieved significant success in studying classical parity-time (PT) symmetry, they encounter challenges in demonstrating pure quantum effects due to incompatible operator transformations and…

We report the role of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry in switching characteristics of a highly nonlinear fiber Bragg grating (FBG) with cubic-quintic-septic nonlinearities. We demonstrate that the device shows novel bi-(multi-) stable states in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-10-09 S. Vignesh Raja , A. Govindarajan , A. Mahalingam , M. Lakshmanan

Open systems with balanced gain and loss, described by parity-time PT-symmetric Hamiltonians have been deeply explored over the past decade. Most explorations are limited to finite discrete models (in real or reciprocal spaces) or continuum…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-08 Tamara Gratcheva , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Jay Gopalakrishnan

A hidden symmetry of the nonlinear wave equation is exploited to analyse the propagation of paraxial and uniform atom-laser beams in time-independent, quadratic and cylindrical potentials varying smoothly along the propagation axis. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 François Impens

A novel regime of atom-cavity physics is explored, arising when large atom samples dispersively interact with high-finesse optical cavities. A stable far detuned optical lattice of several million rubidium atoms is formed inside an optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julian Klinner , Malik Lindholdt , Boris Nagorny , Andreas Hemmerich

In the context of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric fiber Bragg gratings, tailoring the nonlinear profile along the propagation coordinate serves to be a new direction for realizing low-power all-optical switches. The scheme is fruitful only when…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-06 S. Sudhakar , S. Vignesh Raja , A. Govindarajan , K. Batri , M. Lakshmanan

The subject of the work are pairs of linearly coupled PT-symmetric dimers. Two different settings are introduced, namely, straight-coupled dimers, where each gain site is linearly coupled to one gain and one loss site, and cross-coupled…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-13 K. Li , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed

We complexify a 1-d potential which exhibits bound, reflecting and free states to study various properties of a non-Hermitian system. This potential turns out a PT-symmetric non-Hermitian potential when one of the parameters becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ananya Ghatak , Raka Dona Ray Mandal , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

Mirror symmetry of a wave system imposes corresponding even or odd parity on its eigenmodes. For a discrete system, eigenmode parity on a specific subset of sites may also originate from so-called latent symmetry. This symmetry is hidden,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Malte Röntgen , Christian V. Morfonios , Peter Schmelcher , Vincent Pagneux

The generation of optically coherent ultrashort pulses by mode-locked lasers has revolutionized advancements in modern science and technology. These pulses often arise from the formation of dissipative solitons, which emerge due to a…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-08 Jesús Yelo-Sarrión , François Leo , Simon-Pierre Gorza

Using the Maxwell-Bloch equations for resonantly absorbing and amplifying media, we study the temporal dynamics of light propagation through the PT-symmetric structures with alternating loss and gain layers. This approach allows us to…

A comprehensive new approach is presented for deriving probability densities of physical properties characterizing lens or source that constitute an observed galactic microlensing event. While previously encountered problems are overcome,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Dominik

Parity-time(PT) symmetric lattices have been widely studied in controlling the flow of waves, and recently moir\'e superlattices, connecting the periodic and non-periodic potentials, are introduced for exploring unconventional physical…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-29 Xiuye Liu , Jianhua Zeng

We find that a broken PT-symmetry operator when interacts with suitable Hermitian operator, new system becomes completely un-broken PT symmetry. Further on varying the contribution of Hermiticity one can delay or control the broken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Biswanath Rath

The threshold properties of photonic crystal quantum dot lasers operating in the slow-light regime are investigated experimentally and theoretically. Measurements show that, in contrast to conventional lasers, the threshold gain attains a…

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

We introduce a new type of Fano resonances, realized in a photonic circuit which consists of two nonlinear PT-symmetric micro-resonators side-coupled to a waveguide, which have line-shape and resonance position that depends on the direction…

Excursions far from their equilibrium structures can bring crystalline solids through collective transformations including transitions into new phases that may be transient or long-lived. Direct spectroscopic observation of…

We apply the supersymmetric Darboux transformation to the optical Helmoltz wave equation to generate analytically complex-valued PT-symmetric potentials (physically a graded refractive index dielectric). PT-symmetry is then spontaneously…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-23 Ugo Tricoli , Jean-Claude Krapez

We review recent statistical mechanical approaches to multimode laser theory. The theory has proved very effective to describe standard lasers. We refer of the mean field theory for passive mode locking and developments based on Monte Carlo…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-05 F. Antenucci , A. Crisanti , M. Ibáñez Berganza , A. Marruzzo , L. Leuzzi