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When two identical (coherent) beams are injected at a semi-infinite non-Hermitian medium from left and right, we show that both reflection $(r_L,r_R)$ and transmission $(t_L,t_R)$ amplitudes are non-reciprocal. In a parametric domain, there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Zafar Ahmed , Dona Ghosh , Sachin Kumar

All of the PT-symmetric potentials that have been studied so far have been local. In this paper nonlocal PT-symmetric separable potentials of the form $V(x,y)=i\epsilon[U(x)U(y)-U(-x)U(-y)]$, where $U(x)$ is real, are examined. Two specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Carl M. Bender , Hugh F. Jones

$PT$ symmetric quantum mechanics for a particle trapped by the generalized non-Hermitian harmonic oscillator potential is studied. It is shown that energy and the expectation value of the position operator $x$ can not be real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Yuce , A. Kurt , A. Kucukaslan

Investigations of scattering in presence of non-linearity which have just begun require the confinement of both the potential, $V(x)$, and the non-linearity, $\gamma f(|\psi|)$. There could be two options for the confinement. One is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 Zafar Ahmed

Recent progress on nonlinear properties of parity-time ($\cal PT$-) symmetric systems is comprehensively reviewed in this article. $\cal PT$ symmetry started out in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, where complex potentials obeying $\cal PT$…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-07-20 Vladimir V. Konotop , Jianke Yang , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Generally, when imaginary part of an optical potential is non-symmetric the reflectivity, $R(E)$, shows left/right handedness, further if it is not negative-definite the reflection and transmission, $T(E)$, coefficients become anomalous in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zafar Ahmed

The occurrence of parity-time reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry breaking is discussed in a non-Hermitian spin chain. The Hermiticity of the model is broken by the presence of an alternating, imaginary, transverse magnetic field. A full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-25 Gian Luca Giorgi

Multi-dimensional complex optical potentials with partial parity-time (PT) symmetry are proposed. The usual PT symmetry requires that the potential is invariant under complex conjugation and simultaneous reflection in all spatial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-18 Jianke Yang

Spectral singularities are spectral points that spoil the completeness of the eigenfunctions of certain non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operators. We identify spectral singularities of complex scattering potentials with the real energies at which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-24 Ali Mostafazadeh

We observe that the reflection and transmission coefficients of a particle within a double, PT symmetric heterojunction with spatially varying mass, show interesting features, depending on the degree of non Hermiticity, although there is no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Anjana Sinha , R. Roychoudhury

We consider nonlinear analogues of Parity-Time (PT) symmetric linear systems exhibiting defocusing nonlinearities. We study the ground state and excited states (dark solitons and vortices) of the system and report the following remarkable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-12-03 V. Achilleos , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , R. Carretero-González

We investigate complex PT-symmetric potentials, associated with quasi-exactly solvable non-hermitian models involving polynomials and a class of rational functions. We also look for special solutions of intertwining relations of SUSY…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Cannata , M. Ioffe , R. Roychoudhury , P. Roy

A PT-symmetric optically active medium that lases at the threshold gain also acts as a complete perfect absorber at the laser wavelength. This is because spectral singularities of PT-symmetric complex potentials are always accompanied by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ali Mostafazadeh

Solitons in one-dimensional parity-time (PT)-symmetric periodic potentials are studied using exponential asymptotics. The new feature of this exponential asymptotics is that, unlike conservative periodic potentials, the inner and outer…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-13 Sean Nixon , Jianke Yang

We demonstrate that the non-Hermitian parity-time (PT) symmetric interfaces formed between amplifying and lossy crystals support dissipationless edge states. These PT edge states exhibit gapless spectra in the complex band structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Xiang Ni , Daria Smirnova , Alexander Poddubny , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Alexander B. Khanikaev

When a non-hermitian hamiltonian has a certain symmetry, such as the PT pseudo-hermiticity, it is still possible that the hamiltonian has a real spectrum. In this note, by adding an imaginary potential proportional to ip_1p_2 to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Jun-Qing Li , Yan-Gang Miao

We analyze the zero energy solutions, of a two dimensional system which undergoes a non-radial symmetric, complex potential V(r,$\phi$). By virtue of the coherent states concept, the localized states are constructed, and the consequences of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Habib Mazharimousavi

Version 1: The well known Eckart's singular s-wave potential is PT-symmetrically regularized and continued to the whole real line. The new model remains exactly solvable and its bound states remain proportional to Jacobi polynomials. Its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Miloslav Znojil

We study the Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics for the discrete system. This paper gives an exact analytic single-particle solution for an $N$-site tight-binding chain with two conjugated imaginary potentials $\pm i\gamma $ at two end sites,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-04 L. Jin , Z. Song

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