Non-Hermitian Degeneracies and Unidirectional Reflectionless Atomic Lattices
Year: 2014
Authors: Wu J.H., Artoni M., La Rocca G.C.
Autors Affiliation: NE Normal Univ, Ctr Quantum Sci, Changchun 130117, Peoples R China; European Lab Nonlinear Spect, I-50019 Florence, Italy; Univ Brescia, Dept Engn & Informat Technol, I-25133 Brescia, Italy; Univ Brescia, INO CNR Sensor Lab, I-25133 Brescia, Italy; Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56126 Pisa, Italy; CNISM, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
Abstract: Light propagation in optical lattices of driven cold atoms exhibits non-Hermitian degeneracies when the first-order modulation amplitudes of real and imaginary parts of the probe susceptibility are manipulated to be balanced. At these degeneracies, one may observe complete unidirectional reflectionless light propagation. This strictly occurs with no gain and can be easily tuned and fully reversed as supported by the transfer-matrix calculations and explained via a coupled-mode analysis.
Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume: 113 (12) Pages from: 123004-1 to: 123004-5
More Information: We would like to thank Simon Horsley for fruitful discussions. This work is supported by NSFC (Grants No. 11174110 and No. 61378094) and NBRP (Grant No. 2011CB921603) of China. J.-H.W. acknowledges the hospitality of Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa.KeyWords: SymmetryDOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.123004ImpactFactor: 7.512Citations: 157data from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) are update at: 2024-10-06References taken from IsiWeb of Knowledge: (subscribers only)Connecting to view paper tab on IsiWeb: Click hereConnecting to view citations from IsiWeb: Click here