We revisit the problem of the deformed oscillator with position-dependent mass [da Costa et al., J. Math. Phys. 62, 092101 (2021)] in the classical and quantum formalisms by introducing the effect of the mass function in both kinetic and potential energies. The resulting Hamiltonian is mapped into a Morse oscillator by means of a point canonical transformation from the usual phase space (x, p) to a deformed one (x_γ, Π_γ). Similar to the Morse potential, the deformed oscillator presents bound trajectories in phase space corresponding to an anharmonic oscillatory motion in classical formalism and, therefore, bound states with a discrete spectrum in quantum formalism. On the other hand, open trajectories in phase space are associated with scattering states and continuous energy spectrum. Employing the factorization method, we investigate the properties of the coherent states, such as the time evolution and their uncertainties. A fast localization, classical and quantum, is reported for the coherent states due to the asymmetrical position-dependent mass. An oscillation of the time evolution of the uncertainty relationship is also observed, whose amplitude increases as the deformation increases.

Bell’s inequality is investigated in parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric quantum mechanics, using a recently developed form of the inequality by Maccone, with two $\mathcal{PT}$-qubits in the unbroken phase with real energy spectrum. It is shown that the inequality produces a bound that is consistent with the standard quantum mechanics even after using Hilbert space equipped with $\mathcal{CPT}$ inner product and therefore, the entanglement has identical structure with standard quantum mechanics. Consequently, the no-signaling principle for a two-qubit system in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum theory is preserved.

We formulated the oscillators with position-dependent finite symmetric decreasing and increasing mass. The classical phase portraits of the systems were studied by analytical approach (He’s frequency formalism). We also study the quantum mechanical behaviour of the system and plot the quantum mechanical phase space for necessary comparison with the same obtained classically. The phase portrait in all the cases exhibited closed loop reflecting the stable system but the quantum phase portrait exhibited the inherent signature (cusp or kink) near origin associated with the mass. Although the systems possess periodic motion, the discrete eigenvalues do not possess any similarity with that of the simple harmonic oscillator having m = 1.

A reliable algorithm based on an adaptation of the standard differential transform method (DTM) is presented, which is the multi-step differential transform method (Ms-DTM) since it may be difficult to directly apply differential transform method (DTM) to obtain the series solutions for the present two- dimensional coupled asymmetric van der Pol oscillator. The solutions of a two dimensional coupled asymmetric van der Pol oscillator were obtained by Ms-DTM. Figurative comparisons between the Ms-DTM and the classical fourth order Runge-Kutta method (RK4) are given. The obtained results reveal that the proposed technique is a promising tool to solve the considered van der Pol oscillator and yield same information on the phase portrait confirming the stability of the system, effectively. It can be said that the considered approach can be easily extended to other nonlinear van der Pol oscillator systems and therefore is widely applicable in engineering and other sciences.