Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Inspired by a recently observed asymmetry in the transmission of circularly polarized light through a metamaterial, we present a non-Hermitian -symmetric quantum model to describe the interaction of the light fields in two resonant cavities coupled via a 2 D -chiral mirror. We compute the time evolution of the light fields in this model, find two sets of operators compatible with the Hamiltonian in a delocalized representation, discover the energies of the system and show that the transmission probability predicted by the model is indeed asymmetric.
Source: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
Author: R. B. B. Santos
Institution: Centro Universitário FEI
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2073440188