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Dynamic localization in Glauber-Fock lattices
Glauber-Fock lattices refer to a special class of semi-infinite tight-binding
lattices with inhomogeneous hopping rates which are found in certain simple
solid-state, quantum optics and quantum field theoretical models. Here it is
shown that dynamic localization, i.e. suppression of quantum diffusion and
periodic quantum self-imaging by an external sinusoidal force [D.H. Dunlap and
V.M. Kenkre, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 34}, 3625 (1986)], can be exactly realized in
Glauber-Fock lattices, in spite of inhomogeneity of hopping rates and lattice
truncation.Comment: 3 figure
PT-symmetric laser-absorber
In a recent work, Y.D. Chong et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 105}, 053901
(2010)] proposed the idea of a coherent perfect absorber (CPA) as the
time-reversed counterpart of a laser, in which a purely incoming radiation
pattern is completely absorbed by a lossy medium. The optical medium that
realizes CPA is obtained by reversing the gain with absorption, and thus it
generally differs from the lasing medium. Here it is shown that a laser with an
optical medium that satisfies the parity-time symmetry
condition for the dielectric
constant behaves simultaneously as a laser oscillator (i.e. it can emit
outgoing coherent waves) and as a CPA (i.e. it can fully absorb incoming
coherent waves with appropriate amplitudes and phases). Such a device can be
thus referred to as a -symmetric CPA-laser. The general
amplification/absorption features of the CPA-laser below lasing
threshold driven by two fields are determined.Comment: 5 pages; to be published in Phys. Rev. A (Rapid Communications
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Optical realization of relativistic non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
Light propagation in distributed feedback optical structures with gain/loss
regions is shown to provide an accessible laboratory tool to visualize in
optics the spectral properties of the one-dimensional Dirac equation with
non-Hermitian interactions. Spectral singularities and PT symmetry breaking of
the Dirac Hamiltonian are shown to correspond to simple observable physical
quantities and related to well-known physical phenomena like resonance
narrowing and laser oscillation.Comment: 4 page
Optical Zener-Bloch oscillations in binary waveguide arrays
Zener tunneling in a binary array of coupled optical waveguides with
transverse index gradient is shown to produce a sequence of regular or
irregular beam splitting and beam recombination events superimposed to Bloch
oscillations. These periodic or aperiodic Zener-Bloch oscillations provide a
clear and visualizable signature in an optical system of coherent multiband
dynamics encountered in solid-state or matter-wave system
Non-exponential decay via tunneling in tight-binding lattices and the optical Zeno effect
An exactly-solvable model for the decay of a metastable state coupled to a
semi-infinite tight-binding lattice, showing large deviations from exponential
decay in the strong coupling regime, is presented. An optical realization of
the lattice model, based on discrete diffraction in a semi-infinite array of
tunneling-coupled optical waveguides, is proposed to test non-exponential decay
and for the observation of an optical analog of the quantum Zeno effect
Dirac Fields on Spacelike Hypersurfaces, Their Rest-Frame Description and Dirac Observables
Grassmann-valued Dirac fields together with the electromagnetic field (the
pseudoclassical basis of QED) are reformulated on spacelike hypersurfaces in
Minkowski spacetime and then restricted to Wigner hyperplanes to get their
description in the rest-frame Wigner-covariant instant form of dynamics. The
canonical reduction to the Wigner-covariant Coulomb gauge is done in the rest
frame. It is shown, on the basis of a geometric incosistency, that the
description of fermions is incomplete, because there is no bosonic carrier of
the spin structure describing the trajectory of the electric current in
Minkowski spacetime, as it was already emphasized in connection with the first
quantization of spinning particles in a previous paper.Comment: 44 pages, revte
InSiDDe: A server for designing artificial disordered proteins
InSiDDe (In Silico Disorder Design) is a program for the in silico design of intrinsically disordered proteins of desired length and disorder probability. The latter is assessed using IUPred and spans values ranging from 0.55 to 0.95 with 0.05 increments. One to ten artificial sequences per query, each made of 50 to 200 residues, can be generated by InSiDDe. We describe the rationale used to set up InSiDDe and show that an artificial sequence of 100 residues with an IUPred score of 0.6 designed by InSiDDe could be recombinantly expressed in E. coli at high levels without degradation when fused to a natural molecular recognition element (MoRE). In addition, the artificial fusion protein exhibited the expected behavior in terms of binding modulation of the specific partner recognized by the MoRE. To the best of our knowledge, InSiDDe is the first publicly available software for the design of intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) sequences. InSiDDE is publicly available online
Scattering of accelerated wave packets
Wave-packet scattering from a stationary potential is significantly modified
when the wave-packet is subject to an external time-dependent force during the
interaction. In the semiclassical limit, wave--packet motion is simply
described by Newtonian equations and the external force can, for example,
cancel the potential force making a potential barrier transparent. Here we
consider wave-packet scattering from reflectionless potentials, where in
general the potential becomes reflective when probed by an accelerated
wave-packet. In the particular case of the recently-introduced class of complex
Kramers-Kronig potentials we show that a broad class of time dependent forces
can be applied without inducing any scattering, while there is a breakdown of
the reflectionless property when there is a broadband distribution of initial
particle momentum, involving both positive and negative components.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Switching management in couplers with biharmonic longitudinal modulation of refractive index
We address light propagation in couplers with longitudinal biharmonic
modulation of refractive index in neighboring channels. While simplest
single-frequency out-of-phase modulation allows suppression of coupling for
strictly defined set of resonant frequencies, the addition of modulation on
multiple frequency dramatically modifies the structure of resonances. Thus,
additional modulation on double frequency may suppress primary resonance, while
modulation on triple frequency causes fusion of primary and secondary
resonances.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Optics Letter
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