Breaking of PT symmetry in bounded and unbounded scattering systems

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Ambichl, Philipp ^a   Makris, Konstantinos G ^a,b   Ge, Li ^c   Chong, Yidong ^d   Stone, A Douglas ^e   Rotter, Stefan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Photonics; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

ANALOGOUS TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM PHYSICS; ROBIN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SCATTERING MATRICES; SCATTERING SYSTEMS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; UNBOUNDED SYSTEMS; VARIABLE COUPLING;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PHOTONICS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 84893594066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041030     Document Type: Article

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