Affiliations: [a] Department of Physics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19, Prague, Czech Republic | [b] Department of Theoretical Physics, Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Hlavní 130, 250 68 Řež near Prague, Czech Republic. E-mail: novakra9@fjfi.cvut.cz
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Address for correspondence: Radek Novák, Department of Physics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19, Prague, Czech Republic. E-mail: novakra9@fjfi.cvut.cz.
Abstract: We consider the Laplacian in a tubular neighbourhood of a hyperplane subjected to non-self-adjoint PT-symmetric Robin boundary conditions. Its spectrum is found to be purely essential and real for constant boundary conditions. The influence of the perturbation in the boundary conditions on the threshold of the essential spectrum is studied using the Birman–Schwinger principle. Our aim is to derive a sufficient condition for existence, uniqueness and reality of discrete eigenvalues. We show that discrete spectrum exists when the perturbation acts in the mean against the unperturbed boundary conditions and we are able to obtain the first term in its asymptotic expansion in the weak coupling regime.
Keywords: non-self-adjointness, waveguide, Robin boundary conditions, spectral analysis, essential spectrum, weak coupling, Birman–Schwinger principle, reality of the spectrum
