Universal routes to spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian quantum systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Schomerus, Henning ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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CHARACTERISTIC ABSORPTION; COMPLEX SPECTRUM; COUPLING STRENGTHS; HERMITIANS; HERMITICITY; LEVEL CROSSING; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUANTUM SYSTEM; RANDOM MATRIX THEORY; SYMMETRIC SYSTEMS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; UNIVERSALITY CLASS;

HAMILTONIANS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

PLATINUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79952744703     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.030101     Document Type: Article

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42. 0 as encountered in the orthogonal symmetry class of PT -symmetric systems.