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Ladder Operators in Repulsive Harmonic Oscillator with Application to the Schwinger Effect

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-10-27 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

The ladder operators in harmonic oscillator are a well-known strong tool for various problems in physics. In the same sense, it is sometimes expected to handle the problems of repulsive harmonic oscillator in a similar way to the ladder operators in harmonic oscillators, though their analytic solutions are well known. In this paper, we discuss a simple algebraic way to introduce the ladder operators of the repulsive harmonic oscillators, which can reproduce well-known analytic solutions. Applying this formalism, we discuss the charged particles in a constant electric field in relation to the Schwinger effect; the discussion is also made on a supersymmetric extension of this formalism.

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@article{arxiv.1912.00657,
  title  = {Ladder Operators in Repulsive Harmonic Oscillator with Application to the Schwinger Effect},
  author = {Kenichi Aouda and Naohiro Kanda and Shigefumi Naka and Haruki Toyoda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00657},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18pages, 3figures

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