Non-Hermitian Hartman effect

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08715v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:00:27 GMT
• Title: Non-Hermitian Hartman effect
• Authors: Stefano Longhi
• Abstract summary: The Hartman effect refers to the rather paradoxical result that the time spent by a quantum mechanical particle or a photon to tunnel through an opaque potential barrier becomes independent of barrier width for long barriers. Here we consider tunneling through a heterojunction barrier, where the barrier consists of a generally non-Hermitian finite-sized lattice attached to two semi-infinite nearest-neighbor Hermitian lattice leads. We derive a simple and general condition for the persistence of the Hartman effect in non-Hermitian barriers, showing that it can be found rather generally when non-Hermiticity arises from non-reciprocal couplings
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• Abstract: The Hartman effect refers to the rather paradoxical result that the time spent by a quantum mechanical particle or a photon to tunnel through an opaque potential barrier becomes independent of barrier width for long barriers. Such an effect, which has been observed in different physical settings, raised a lively debate and some controversies, owing to the correct definition and interpretation of tunneling times and the apparent superluminal transmission. A rather open question is whether (and under which conditions) the Hartman effect persists for inelastic scattering, i.e. when the potential becomes non-Hermitian and the scattering matrix is not unitary. Here we consider tunneling through a heterojunction barrier in the tight-binding picture, where the barrier consists of a generally non-Hermitian finite-sized lattice attached to two semi-infinite nearest-neighbor Hermitian lattice leads. We derive a simple and general condition for the persistence of the Hartman effect in non-Hermitian barriers, showing that it can be found rather generally when non-Hermiticity arises from non-reciprocal couplings, i.e. when the barrier displays the non-Hermitian skin effect, without any special symmetry in the system.

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