R L Horne1, J Cuevas, P G Kevrekidis, N Whitaker, F Kh Abdullaev and D J Frantzeskakis (pdf copy 1.600 Mb.)
We study the effects of management of the PT-symmetric part of the potential within the setting of Schršodinger dimer and trimer oligomer systems. This is done by rapidly modulating in time the gain/loss profile. This gives rise to a number of interesting properties of the system, which are explored at the level of an averaged equation approach. Remarkably, this rapid modulation provides for a controllable expansion of the region of exact PT-symmetry, depending on the strength and frequency of the imposed modulation. The resulting averaged models are analysed theoretically and their exact stationary solutions are translated into time-periodic solutions through the averaging reduction. These are, in turn, compared with the exact periodic solutions of the full non-autonomous PT-symmetry managed problem and very good agreement is found between the two.
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 46 (2013) 485101 (19pp) doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/46/48/485101