Quantum star-graph analogues of PT-symmetric square wells
Abstract
We pick up a solvable symmetric quantum square well on an interval of (with an dependent non-Hermiticity given by Robin boundary conditions) and generalize it. In essence, we just replace the support interval (reinterpreted as an equilateral two-pointed star graph with the Kirchhoff matching at the vertex ) by a pointed equilateral star graph endowed with the simplest complex-rotation-symmetric external dependent Robin boundary conditions. The remarkably compact form of the secular determinant is then deduced. Its analysis reveals that (1) at any integer , there exists the same, independent and infinite subfamily of the real energies, and (2) at any special , there exists another, additional and dependent infinite subfamily of the real energies. In the spirit of the recently proposed dynamical construction of the Hilbert space of a quantum system, the physical bound-state interpretation of these eigenvalues is finally proposed.
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@article{arxiv.1205.5211,
title = {Quantum star-graph analogues of PT-symmetric square wells},
author = {Miloslav Znojil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5211},
year = {2013}
}
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20 pp, 1 figure