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Non-Hermitian degeneracy of two unbound states

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We solved numerically the implicit, trascendental equation that defines the eigenenergy surface of a degenerating isolated doublet of unbound states in the simple but illustrative case of the scattering of a beam of particles by a double barrier potential. Unfolding the degeneracy point with the help of a contact equivalent approximant, crossings and anticrossings of energies and widths, as well as the changes of identity of the poles of the S-matrix are explained in terms of sections of the eigenenergy surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0606239,
  title  = {Non-Hermitian degeneracy of two unbound states},
  author = {E. Hernandez and A. Jauregui and A. Mondragon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0606239},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

23 pages, 9 figures. To be published in J. of Physics A: Math. and Gen. Special issue: Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics, August 2006