Integrability and trajectory confinement in \mathcal{PT}-symmetric waveguide arrays

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACC3CEMaRDI QIDQ6430835arXivFDO

Authors I. V. Barashenkov, Alexander Chernyavsky

Publication date 25 March 2023

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ACC3CE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.MPnlin.SIphysics.optics

Abstract: We consider $mathcalPT$-symmetric ring-like arrays of optical waveguides with purely nonlinear gain and loss. Regardless of the value of the gain-loss coefficient, these systems are protected from spontaneous $mathcalPT$-symmetry breaking. If the nonhermitian part of the array matrix has cross-compensating structure, the total power in such a system remains bounded -- or even constant -- at all times. We identify two-, three-, and four-waveguide arrays with cross-compensatory nonlinear gain and loss that constitute completely integrable Hamiltonian systems.

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