Invariant currents and scattering off locally symmetric potential landscapes

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.09.003zbMATH Open1343.74009arXiv1409.5654OpenAlexW2963609562MaRDI QIDQ738256FDOQ738256

Authors: P. A. Kalozoumis, C. V. Morfonios, F. K. Diakonos, P. Schmelcher 

Publication date: 2 September 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the effect of discrete symmetry breaking in inhomogeneous scattering media within the framework of generic wave propagation. Our focus is on one-dimensional scattering potentials exhibiting local symmetries. We find a class of spatially invariant nonlocal currents, emerging when the corresponding generalized potential exhibits symmetries in arbitrary spatial domains. These invariants characterize the wave propagation and provide a spatial mapping of the wave function between any symmetry related domains. This generalizes the Bloch and parity theorems for broken reflection and translational symmetries, respectively. Their nonvanishing values indicate the symmetry breaking, whereas a zero value denotes the restoration of the global symmetry where the well-known forms of the two theorems are recovered. These invariants allow for a systematic treatment of systems with any local symmetry combination, providing a tool for the investigation of the scattering properties of aperiodic but locally symmetric systems. To this aim we express the transfer matrix of a locally symmetric potential unit via the corresponding invariants and derive quantities characterizing the complete scattering device which serve as key elements for the investigation of transmission spectra and particularly of perfect transmission resonances.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5654

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zbMATH Keywords

invariantslocal symmetryBloch theoremperfect transmissionaperiodic media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Inhomogeneity in solid mechanics (74E05)

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• Local symmetry dynamics in one-dimensional aperiodic lattices: a numerical study

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