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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 85, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.023802
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- NSF [ECCS 1068642]
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We analyze the optical properties of one-dimensional PT-symmetric structures of arbitrary complexity. These structures violate normal unitarity (photon flux conservation) but are shown to satisfy generalized unitarity relations, which relate the elements of the scattering matrix and lead to a conservation relation in terms of the transmittance and (left and right) reflectances. One implication of this relation is that there exist anisotropic transmission resonances in PT-symmetric systems, frequencies at which there is unit transmission and zero reflection, but only for waves incident from a single side. The spatial profile of these transmission resonances is symmetric, and they can occur even at PT-symmetry-breaking points. The general conservation relations can be utilized as an experimental signature of the presence of PT symmetry and of PT-symmetry-breaking transitions. The uniqueness of PT-symmetry-breaking transitions of the scattering matrix is briefly discussed by comparing to the corresponding non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.
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