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We demonstrate that a coherently-prepared four-level atomic medium can provide a versatile platform for realizing parity-time (PT) symmetric optical potentials. Different types of PT-symmetric potentials are proposed by appropriately tuning…
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…
In 2023, Cristoferi, Fonseca and Ganedi proved that Cahn-Hilliard type energies with spatially inhomogeneous potentials converge to the usual (isotropic and homogeneous) perimeter functional if the length-scale $\delta$ of spatial…
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