Nonlinear waves in -symmetric systems

VV Konotop, J Yang, DA Zezyulin - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Recent progress on nonlinear properties of parity-time (PT)-symmetric systems is
comprehensively reviewed in this article. PT symmetry started out in non-Hermitian quantum …

Nonlinear switching and solitons in PT‐symmetric photonic systems

SV Suchkov, AA Sukhorukov, J Huang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
One of the challenges of the modern photonics is to develop all‐optical devices enabling
increased speed and energy efficiency for transmitting and processing information on an …

Prediction and dynamical evolution of multipole soliton families in fractional Schrödinger equation with the PT-symmetric potential and saturable nonlinearity

WB Bo, RR Wang, Y Fang, YY Wang, CQ Dai - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
The first good prediction of the multipole soliton solution for the non-integrable equation, ie,
the saturable nonlinear Schrödinger equation under the PT-symmetric potential, is achieved …

Experimental demonstration of a coherent perfect absorber with PT phase transition

Y Sun, W Tan, H Li, J Li, H Chen - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We report the realization of a coherent perfect absorber, using a pair of passive resonators
coupled to a microwave transmission line in the background, which can completely absorb …

Optical solitons in -symmetric nonlinear couplers with gain and loss

NV Alexeeva, IV Barashenkov, AA Sukhorukov… - Physical Review A …, 2012 - APS
We study spatial and temporal solitons in the PT symmetric coupler with gain in one
waveguide and loss in the other. Stability properties of the high-and low-frequency solitons …

Nonlinear suppression of time reversals in -symmetric optical couplers

AA Sukhorukov, Z Xu, YS Kivshar - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2010 - APS
We reveal a generic connection between the effect of time reversals and nonlinear wave
dynamics in systems with parity-time (PT) symmetry, considering a symmetric optical coupler …

Unidirectional reflectionless light propagation at exceptional points

Y Huang, Y Shen, C Min, S Fan, G Veronis - Nanophotonics, 2017 - degruyter.com
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of unidirectional reflectionless light
propagation in photonic devices at exceptional points (EPs). EPs, which are branch point …

Lattice solitons in -symmetric mixed linear-nonlinear optical lattices

Y He, X Zhu, D Mihalache, J Liu, Z Chen - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2012 - APS
We report the existence and stability of lattice solitons in parity-time (PT)-symmetric mixed
linear-nonlinear optical lattices in Kerr media. We focus on studying the characteristic effects …

Gain-Driven Discrete Breathers in -Symmetric Nonlinear Metamaterials

N Lazarides, GP Tsironis - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We introduce a one-dimensional parity-time-(PT-) symmetric nonlinear magnetic
metamaterial consisting of split-ring dimers having both gain and loss. When nonlinearity is …

Parity-time-symmetric plasmonic metamaterials

H Alaeian, JA Dionne - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We theoretically investigate the optical properties of parity-time (PT)-symmetric three-
dimensional metamaterials composed of strongly coupled planar plasmonic waveguides. By …