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Analysis Seminar -- Composite Operators, Joint Approximate Eigenstates, and Applications to Physics

Event Type: 
Seminar
Speaker: 
Jose Garcia
Event Date: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 -
3:00pm to 3:45pm
Location: 
SMLC 352
Audience: 
Faculty/StaffStudents

Event Description: 

Abstract
A variety of physical phenomena, such as amplification, absorption, and radiation, can be effectively described using non-Hermitian operators. However, the introduction of non-uniform non-Hermiticity can lead to the formation of exceptional points in a system’s spectrum, where two or more eigenvalues become degenerate and their associated eigenvectors coallesce causing the underlying operator or matrix to become defective. Here, we explore extensions of the Clifford and quadratic ϵ-pseudospectrum, previously defined for Hermitian operators, to accommodate non-Hermitian operators and matrices, including the possibility that the underlying operators may possess exceptional points in their spectra. In particular, we provide a framework for finding approximate joint eigenstates of a d-tuple of Hermitian operators A and non-Hermitian operators B, and show that their Clifford and quadratic ϵ-pseudospectra are still well-defined despite any non-normality. Altogether, this framework enables the exploration of non-Hermitian physical systems’ ϵ-pseudospectra, including but not limited to photonic systems where gain, loss, and radiation are prominent physical phenomena. This is a story about commuting and non-commuting matrices and their implications. Because of this the only real background knowledge coming in is a good grasp of linear algebra. Knowledge on ϵ pseudospectrum is not required in any form and the goal of the talk will be to introduce key ideas along the way. We will provide a connection between joint approximate eigenstates and the pseudospectrum of some composite operators. We also establish a relationship between the different composite operators and end with some numerical simulations on
non-Hermitian toy model physical systems.

Zoom link:  https://unm.zoom.us/j/97255740728

Meeting ID: 972 5574 0728

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Event Contact

Contact Name: Terry Loring

Contact Email: tloring@unm.edu