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IR-truncated $\mathcal{PT}-$symmetric $ix^3$ model and its asymptotic spectral scaling graph

Mathematical Physics 2019-01-25 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Spectral Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

The PT\mathcal{PT}-symmetric quantum mechanical V=ix3V=ix^3 model over the real line, xRx\in\mathbb{R}, is infrared (IR) truncated and considered as Sturm-Liouville problem over a finite interval x[L,L]Rx\in\left[-L,L\right]\subset\mathbb{R}. Via WKB and Stokes graph analysis, the location of the complex spectral branches of the V=ix3V=ix^3 model and those of more general V=(ix)2n+1V=-(ix)^{2n+1} models over x[L,L]Rx\in\left[-L,L\right]\subset\mathbb{R} are obtained. The corresponding eigenvalues are mapped onto LL-invariant asymptotic spectral scaling graphs RC\mathcal{R}\subset \mathbb{C}. These scaling graphs are geometrically invariant and cutoff-independent so that the IR limit LL\to \infty can be formally taken. Moreover, an increasing LL can be associated with an R\mathcal{R}-constrained spectral UV\toIR renormalization group flow on R\mathcal{R}. The existence of a scale-invariant PT\mathcal{PT} symmetry breaking region on each of these graphs allows to conclude that the unbounded eigenvalue sequence of the ix3ix^3 Hamiltonian over xRx\in\mathbb{R} can be considered as tending toward a mapped version of such a PT\mathcal{PT} symmetry breaking region at spectral infinity. This provides a simple heuristic explanation for the specific eigenfunction properties described in the literature so far and clear complementary evidence that the PT\mathcal{PT}-symmetric V=(ix)2n+1V=-(ix)^{2n+1} models over the real line xRx\in\mathbb{R} are not equivalent to Hermitian models, but that they rather form a separate model class with purely real spectra. Our findings allow us to hypothesize a possible physical interpretation of the non-Rieszian mode behavior as a related mode condensation process.

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@article{arxiv.1901.08526,
  title  = {IR-truncated $\mathcal{PT}-$symmetric $ix^3$ model and its asymptotic spectral scaling graph},
  author = {Uwe Guenther and Frank Stefani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.08526},
  year   = {2019}
}