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Optical realization of relativistic non-Hermitian quantum mechanics

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arxiv 1008.5303 v1 pith:PHH4PNQA submitted 2010-08-31 quant-ph

Optical realization of relativistic non-Hermitian quantum mechanics

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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.

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