PT-symmetric double-well potentials revisited: Bifurcations, stability and dynamics

Romanian Reports in Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-26

  Rodrigues, A S ^a   Li, K ^b   Achilleos, V ^c   Kevrekidis, P G ^b   Frantzeskakis, D J ^c   Bender, C M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimmer; Double well potential; PT symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877809258     PISSN: 12211451     EISSN: 18418759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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