\mathcal {PT}-symmetry breaking and maximal chirality in a nonuniform \mathcal {PT} symmetric ring

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/44/444030zbMATH Open1263.81175arXiv1207.1945OpenAlexW3125622579MaRDI QIDQ4913261FDOQ4913261

Authors: Derek D. Scott, Yogesh N. Joglekar 

Publication date: 5 April 2013

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

Abstract: We study the properties of an N-site tight-binding ring with parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetric, Hermitian, site-dependent tunneling and a pair of non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric, loss and gain impurities $pmigamma$. The properties of such lattices with open boundary conditions have been intensely explored over the past two years. We numerically investigate the PT-symmetric phase in a ring with a position-dependent tunneling function $t_{a}lpha(k)=[k(N-k){]}^{alpha/2}$ that, in an open lattice, leads to a strengthened PT-symmetric phase, and study the evolution of the PT-symmetric phase from the open chain to a ring. We show that, generally, periodic boundary conditions weaken the PT-symmetric phase, although for experimentally relevant lattice sizes $Nsim50$, it remains easily accessible. We show that the chirality, quantified by the (magnitude of the) average transverse momentum of a wave packet, shows a maximum at the PT-symmetric threshold. Our results show that although the wavepacket intensity increases monotonically across the PT-breaking threshold, the average momentum decays monotonically on both sides of the threshold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1945

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

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