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We analyze the scattering dynamics and spectrum of a quantum particle on a tight-binding lattice subject to a non-Hermitian (purely imaginary) local potential. The reflection, transmission and absorption coefficients are studied as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Phillip C. Burke , Jan Wiersig , Masudul Haque

The balance of gain and loss in an open system may maintain certain Hermitian dynamical behaviors, which can be hardly observed in a popular Hermitian system. In this paper, we systematically study a 1D PT -symmetry non-Hermitian SSH model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 K. L. Zhang , P. Wang , G. Zhang , Z. Song

We present a comprehensive study of stationary states in a coherent medium with a quadratic or Kerr nonlinearity in the presence of localized potentials in one dimension (1D) for both positive and negative signs of the nonlinear term, as…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-29 Allison Brattley , Hongyi Huang , Kunal K. Das

A general formalism is worked out for the description of one-dimensional scattering in non-hermitian quantum mechanics and constraints on transmission and reflection coefficients are derived in the cases of P, T, or PT invariance of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 F. Cannata , J. -P. Dedonder , A. Ventura

An integral part of scattering theory calculations in continuum quantum systems involves identifying appropriate boundary conditions in addition to writing down the correct Hamiltonian. In the simplest problem of scattering in one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Abhiram Soori

In this article we formulate and discuss one particle quantum scattering theory on an arbitrary finite graph with $n$ open ends and where we define the Hamiltonian to be (minus) the Laplace operator with general boundary conditions at the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim Kostrykin , Robert Schrader

Exact solutions of two-particle relativistic equations of quantum field theory describing the scattering $s$-states and the bound $s$-states are found in the cases of delta-shell potential and superposition of delta-shell potentials. Some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Valery Kapshai , Yury Grishechkin

We consider the eigenvalue problem for one-dimensional linear Schr\"odinger lattices (tight-binding) with an embedded few-sites linear or nonlinear, Hamiltonian or non-conservative defect (an oligomer). Such a problem arises when…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-12 J. D'Ambroise , P. G. Kevrekidis , S. Lepri

Scattering states with LEED asymptotics are calculated for a general non-muffin tin potential, as e.g. for a pseudopotential with a suitable barrier and image potential part. The latter applies especially to the case of low lying conduction…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Lorenz , C. Solterbeck , W. Schattke , J. Burmeister , W. Hackbusch

We design non-singular cloaks enabling objects to scatter waves like objects with smaller size and very different shapes. We consider the Schrodinger equation which is valid e.g. in the contexts of geometrical and quantum optics. More…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 Andre Diatta , Sebastien Guenneau

We study the effective Bloch-wave scattering of a spinless Fermi gas in one-dimensional (1D) optical lattices. By tuning the odd-wave scattering length, we find multiple resonances of Bloch-waves scattering at the bottom (and the top) of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-01 Xiaoling Cui

In this paper, we consider the one-dimensional semirelativistic Schr\"{o}dinger equation for a particle interacting with $N$ Dirac delta potentials. Using the heat kernel techniques, we establish a resolvent formula in terms of an $N \times…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Fatih Erman , Manuel Gadella , Haydar Uncu

The purpose of these lectures is to give an accessible and self contained introduction to quantum scattering theory in one dimension. Part A defines the theoretical playground, and develops basic concepts of scattering theory in the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Milan Šindelka

We consider a pair of parallel straight quantum waveguides coupled laterally through a window of a width $ \ell $ in the common boundary. We show that such a system has at least one bound state for any $ \ell>0 $. We find the corresponding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Exner , P. Šeba , M. Tater , D. Vaněk

We employ a recently-developed transfer-matrix formulation of scattering theory in two dimensions to study a class of scattering setups modeled by real potentials. The transfer matrix for these potentials is related to the time-evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We extend the application of the techniques developed within the framework of the pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics to study a unitary quantum system described by an imaginary PT-symmetric potential v(x) having a continuous real spectrum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ali Mostafazadeh

Non-Hermitian systems are known to possess unique singularities in the scattering spectra such as exceptional points, bound states in the continuum, Diabolic points, and anapole states, which are usually considered to be independent. Here,…

The Wigner-Smith time-delay of flux conserving systems is a real quantity that measures how long an excitation resides in an interaction region. The complex generalization of time-delay to non-Hermitian systems is still under development,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-14 Nadav Shaibe , Jared M. Erb , Steven M. Anlage

We investigate quantum dynamics of a generic model of light-matter interaction in the context of high impedance waveguides, focusing on the behavior of the emitted photonic states, in the framework of the spin-boson model Quantum quenches…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Soumya Bera , Harold U. Baranger , Serge Florens

Quantum emitters coupled to structured photonic reservoirs experience unconventional individual and collective dynamics emerging from the interplay between dimensionality and non-trivial photon energy dispersions. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 A. González-Tudela , J. I. Cirac