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We study the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking in dissipationless resonant tunneling heterostructures (RTS). To describe the quantum transport in this system we apply both the nonequilibrium Green function formalism based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 A. A. Gorbatsevich , N. M. Shubin

Photonic systems with parity-time (PT) symmetry and topology are attracting considerable attentions. In this work, topological near-zero edge states are studied in PT-symmetric photonic lattice and the results indicate that the near-zero…

The parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric structures have exhibited potential applications in developing various robust quantum devices. In an optical trimmer with balanced loss and gain, we analytically study the $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 L. F. Xue , Z. R. Gong , H. B. Zhu , Z. H. Wang

Quantum interference underpins many quantum information protocols but is typically studied in lossless Hermitian systems. Here, we reveal an exceptional point induced phase transition in two photon Hong Ou Mandel interference within a lossy…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2025-11-21 Xing Lin , Shuang Zhang

We study tunneling through a resonant level connected to two dissipative bosonic baths: one is the resistive environment of the source and drain leads, while the second comes from coupling to potential fluctuations on a resistive gate. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 Dong E. Liu , Huaixiu Zheng , Gleb Finkelstein , Harold U. Baranger

We investigate PT -symmetry breaking transitions in a dimer comprising two LC oscillators, one with loss and the second with gain. The electric energy of this four-mode model oscillates between the two LC circuits, and between capacitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Tishuo Wang , Jianxiong Fang , Zhongyi Xie , Nenghao Dong , Yogesh N Joglekar , Zixin Wang , Jiaming Li , Le Luo

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a phenomenon of an alteration of a state symmetry without a change in the system symmetry. A transition from a state with unbroken symmetry to a state with broken symmetry leads to a qualitative change in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 A. R. Mukhamedyanov , E. S. Andrianov , A. A. Zyablovsky

A system of two coupled semiconductor-based resonators is studied when lasing around an exceptional point. We show that the presence of nonlinear saturation effects can have important ramifications on the transition behavior of this system.…

In recent years, extensive research has been dedicated to the study of parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, which involves the engineered balance of gain and loss in non-Hermitian optics. Complementary to $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-05 Bo-Wang Zhang , Cheng Shang , J. Y. Sun , Zhuo-Cheng Gu , X. X. Yi

We study resonant mode conversion in the PT-symmetric multimode waveguides, where symmetry breaking manifests itself in sequential destabilization (appearance of the complex eigenvalues) of the pairs of adjacent guided modes. We show that…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Victor A. Vysloukh , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

The broken and unbroken phases of PT and supersymmetry in optical systems are explored for a complex refractive index profile in the form of a Scarf potential, under the framework of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The transition from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Adipta Pal , Subhrajit Modak , Aradhya Shukla , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

It is generally believed that Parity-Time (PT)-symmetry breaking occurs when eigenvalues or both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coincide. However, we show that this well-accepted picture of PT-symmetry breaking is incorrect. Instead, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Ruili Zhang , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao , Jian Liu

The rapidly growing field of integrated photonics is enabling a large number of novel devices for optical data processing, neuromorphic computing and circuits for quantum photonics. While many photonic devices are based on linear optics,…

Parity-time (PT) symmetry and broken in micro/nano photonic structures have been investigated extensively as they bring new opportunities to control the flow of light based on non-Hermitian optics. Previous studies have focused on the…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Qi Zhang , Yun Ma , Qi Liu , Xinchen Zhang , Yali Jia , Limin Tong , Qihuang Gong , Ying Gu

Both experiments and theoretical studies have demonstrated that the interaction between the current carrying electrons and the induced polarization charge in single-molecule junctions leads to a strong renormalization of molecular charging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 K. Kaasbjerg , K. Flensberg

We analyze the interplay between vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom in charge transport across a molecular single-electron transistor. We focus on the wide class of molecules which possess quasi-degenerate vibrational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Donarini , Milena Grifoni , Klaus Richter

Open physical systems with balanced loss and gain, described by non-Hermitian parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) reflection symmetric Hamiltonians, exhibit a transition which could engenders modes that exponentially decay or grow with time and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-27 Jiaming Li , Andrew K. Harter , Ji Liu , Leonardo de Melo , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Le Luo

Parity-Time (PT) symmetric quantum mechanics is a complex extension of conventional Hermitian quantum mechanics in which physical observables possess a real eigenvalue spectrum. However, an experimental demonstration of the true quantum…

Nonreciprocal devices that permit wave transmission in only one direction are indispensible in many fields of science including, e.g., electronics, optics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Manipulating phonons using such nonreciprocal devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Jing Zhang , Bo Peng , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Yu-xi Liu , Hui Jing , Xin-you Lu , Yu-long Liu , Lan Yang , Franco Nori

We investigate the parity- and time-reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetry breaking in lattice models in the presence of long-ranged, non-hermitian, $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potentials that remain finite or become divergent in the continuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Derek D. Scott , Avadh Saxena