Coherent perfect absorption with and without lasing in complex potentials

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/38/385303MaRDI QIDQ2922388zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zafar Ahmed

Publication date 10 October 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1679

zbMATH Keywords

spectral singularityreflection and transmissionnon-reciprocitycoherent perfect absoprtioncomplex Scarf II potentialPT-symmetric quantum machanicsscattering from non-Hermitian Hamiltonians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: We prove that coherent perfect absorption (CPA) without lasing is {�f not} possible in the PT-symmetric domain as the s-matrix is such that $|detS(pmk)|=1$. We study coherent scattering from three complex potentials, one solved analytically and the other two numerically. We conjecture that in the domain of unbroken symmetry (when the potential has real discrete spectrum) neither spectral singularity nor CPA can occur. We show that Scarf II potential is a special model that can analytically and explicitly exhibit these as well as other novel phenomena and their subtleties. pacs{03.65-w, 03.65.Nk, 11.30.Er, 42.25.Bs, 42.79.Gn

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