PT-like phase transition and limit cycle oscillations in non-reciprocally coupled optomechanical oscillators levitated in vacuum

V Liška, T Zemánková, P Jákl, M Šiler, SH Simpson… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Nanoparticles levitated in an optical trap provide a versatile platform to study mechanical
oscillators in a controlled environment with tuneable parameters. Recently, it has become …

Unidirectional wave vector manipulation in two-dimensional space with an all passive acoustic parity-time-symmetric metamaterials crystal

T Liu, X Zhu, F Chen, S Liang, J Zhu - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Exploring the concept of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians respecting parity-time symmetry with
classical wave systems is of great interest as it enables the experimental investigation of …

Explicit definition of symmetry for nonunitary quantum walks with gain and loss

K Mochizuki, D Kim, H Obuse - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
PT symmetry, that is, a combined parity and time-reversal symmetry, is a key milestone for
non-Hermitian systems exhibiting entirely real eigenenergy. In the present work, motivated …

Classical Hamiltonian Systems with balanced loss and gain

PK Ghosh - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Classical Hamiltonian systems with balanced loss and gain are considered in this review. A
generic Hamiltonian formulation for systems with space-dependent balanced loss and gain …

Bound states, scattering states, and resonant states in -symmetric open quantum systems

S Garmon, M Gianfreda, N Hatano - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We study a simple open quantum system with a PT-symmetric defect potential as a prototype
in order to illustrate a number of general features of PT-symmetric open quantum systems; …

Wave propagation, bi-directional reflectionless, and coherent perfect absorption-lasing in finite periodic PT-symmetric photonic systems

JY Lee, PY Chen - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
With consideration of parity-time (PT) symmetry, Lorentz reciprocity theorem, and real Bloch
phase, we propose a generalized parametric space for any PT-symmetric unit cells that can …

Coupled oscillator systems having partial symmetry

A Beygi, SP Klevansky, CM Bender - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
This paper examines chains of N coupled harmonic oscillators. In isolation, the j th oscillator
(1≤ j≤ N) has the natural frequency ω j and is described by the Hamiltonian 1 2 pj 2+ 1 2 ω …

Tunneling time in -symmetric systems

P Guo, V Gasparian, E Jódar, C Wisehart - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
In the present work, we propose a generalization of tunneling time in parity and time (PT)-
symmetric systems. The properties of tunneling time in PT-symmetric systems are studied …

[HTML][HTML] Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is the result of parity-time symmetry breaking

H Qin, R Zhang, AS Glasser, J **ao - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Parity-Time (PT)-symmetry is being actively investigated as a fundamental property of
observables in quantum physics. We show that the governing equations of the classical two …

[HTML][HTML] PT-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and invariant operator in periodically driven SU (1, 1) system

Y Gu, XM Bai, XL Hao, JQ Liang - Results in Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We study in this paper the time evolution of P T-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian
consisting of periodically driven SU (1, 1) generators. A non-Hermitian invariant operator is …