Parity-time Symmetry and Its Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Christodoulides, Demetrios (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Yang, Jianke (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 280
• Subjects: Quantum physics.; Phase transformations (Statistical physics).; Condensed materials.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Gases and Condensates.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Optical and Electronic Materials.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art theoretical and experimental advances in linear and nonlinear parity-time-symmetric systems in various physical disciplines, and surveys the emerging applications of parity-time (PT) symmetry. PT symmetry originates from quantum mechani...

Table of Contents:

• Linear and Nonlinear Experiments in PT-Symmetric Photonic Mesh Lattices
• PT-Symmetry on-a-Chip: Harnessing Optical Loss for Novel Integrated Photonic Functionality
• Parity-Time Symmetry in Scattering Problems
• Scattering Theory and PT-Symmetry
• Passive PT-symmetry in laser-written optical waveguide structures
• Non-Hermitian effects due to asymmetric backscattering of light in whispering-gallery microcavities
• Exact Results for a Special PT-symmetric Optical Potential
• Parity-time-symmetric optical lattices in atomic configurations
• Effects of exceptional points in PT-symmetric waveguides
• Higher order exceptional points in discrete photonics platforms
• Non-Hermitian Optical Waveguide Couplers
• Parity-Time Symmetric Plasmonics
• PT-symmetry and non-Hermitian wave transport in microwaves and RF circuits
• Coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations with gain and loss: modeling PT-symmetry
• Making the PT symmetry unbreakable
• Krein signature in Hamiltonian and PT-symmetric systems
• Integrable nonlocal PT-symmetric and reverse space-time nonlinear Schrodinger equations
• Construction of non-PT-symmetric complex potentials with all-real spectra
• Constant-Intensity Waves in Non-Hermitian Media
• Nonlinear Beam Propagation in a Class of Complex Non-PT-Symmetric Potentials.