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DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.103.030402zbMATH Open1254.81042arXiv0908.2380OpenAlexW2013201091WikidataQ84359040 ScholiaQ84359040MaRDI QIDQ4898076FDOQ4898076

Authors: Oliver Bendix, R. Fleischmann, Tsampikos Kottos, Boris Shapiro 

Publication date: 29 December 2012

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the effect of localized modes in lattices of size N with parity-time (PT) symmetry. Such modes are arranged in pairs of quasi-degenerate levels with splitting delta exp{-N/xi}, where xi is their localization length. The level "evolution" with respect to the PT breaking parameter gamma shows a cascade of bifurcations during which a pair of real levels becomes complex. The spontaneous PT symmetry breaking occurs at gamma min(delta), thus resulting in an exponentially narrow exact PT phase. As N/xi decreases, it becomes more robust with gamma (1/N)^2 and the distribution P(gamma) changes from log-normal to semi-Gaussian. Our theory can be tested in the frame of optical lattices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2380

zbMATH Keywords

localized modespairs of quasidegenerate levels

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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