期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW A
卷 83, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.050101
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- U.S. Department of Energy
We study the properties of a parity-and time-reversal-(PT) symmetric tight-binding chain of size N with position-dependent hopping amplitude. In contrast to the fragile PT-symmetric phase of a chain with constant hopping and imaginary impurity potentials, we show that, under very general conditions, our model is always in the PT-symmetric phase. We numerically obtain the energy spectrum and the density of states of such a chain, and show that they are widely tunable. By studying the size dependence of inverse participation ratios, we show that although the chain is not translationally invariant, most of its eigenstates are extended. Our results indicate that tight-binding models with non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric hopping have a robust PT-symmetric phase and rich dynamics which may be explored in coupled waveguides.
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