Stefano Longhi
The spectral and localization properties of PT-symmetric optical superlattices, either infinitely extended or truncated at one side, are theoretically investigated, and the criteria that ensure the unbroken PT phase are derived. The analysis is applied to the case of superlattices describing a complex (PT-symmetric) extension of the Harper Hamiltonian in the rational case.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3165
Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
S.Bittner, B.Dietz, H.L.Harney, M.Miski-Oglu, A.Richter, F. Schäfer
Scattering experiments with microwave cavities were performed and the effects of broken time-reversal invariance (TRI), induced by means of a magnetized ferrite placed inside the cavity, on an isolated doublet of nearly degenerate resonances were investigated. All elements of the effective Hamiltonian of this two-level system were extracted. As a function of two experimental parameters, the doublet and also the associated eigenvectors could be tuned to coalesce at a so-called exceptional point (EP). The behavior of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors when encircling the EP in parameter space was studied, including the geometric amplitude that builds up in the case of broken TRI. A one-dimensional subspace of parameters was found where the differences of the eigenvalues are either real or purely imaginary. There, the Hamiltonians were found PT-invariant under the combined operation of parity (P) and time reversal (T) in a generalized sense. The EP is the point of transition between both regions. There a spontaneous breaking of PT occurs.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3537
Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)