Degrees and signatures of broken PT symmetry in nonuniform lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Scott, Derek D ^a   Joglekar, Yogesh N ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE-PARTICLE; SYMMETRIC PHASE; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-REVERSAL;

EID: 79961040246     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.050102     Document Type: Article

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