Spectral singularities in a non-Hermitian Friedrichs-Fano-Anderson model

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2010-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/1001.0964v1

Phys. Rev. B 80, 165125 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

14 pages, 9 figures

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Spectral singularities are predicted to occur in a non-Hermitian extension of the Friedrichs-Fano-Anderson model describing the decay of a discrete state $|a >$ coupled to a continuum of modes. A physical realization of the model, based on electronic or photonic transport in a semi-infinite tight-binding lattice with an imaginary impurity site at the lattice boundary, is proposed. The occurrence of the spectral singularities is shown to correspond either to a diverging reflection probability (for an amplifying impurity) or to a vanishing reflection probability (for an absorbing impurity) from the lattice boundary. In the former case, the spectral singularity of the resolvent is also responsible for the non-decay of state $|a>$ into the continuum, in spite of the absence of bound states.

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