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

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACC3CEarXiv2303.14493MaRDI QIDQ6430835FDOQ6430835

Authors: I. V. Barashenkov, Alexander Chernyavsky 

Publication date: 25 March 2023

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.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) 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) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

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