Spectrally equivalent time-dependent double wells and unstable anharmonic oscillators
Abstract
We construct a time-dependent double well potential as an exact spectral equivalent to the explicitly time-dependent negative quartic oscillator with a time-dependent mass term. Defining the unstable anharmonic oscillator Hamiltonian on a contour in the lower-half complex plane, the resulting time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is first mapped by an exact solution of the time-dependent Dyson equation to a time-dependent Hermitian Hamiltonian defined on the real axis. When unitary transformed, scaled and Fourier transformed we obtain a time-dependent double well potential bounded from below. All transformations are carried out non-perturbatively so that all Hamiltonians in this process are spectrally exactly equivalent in the sense that they have identical instantaneous energy eigenvalue spectra.
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@article{arxiv.2004.05612,
title = {Spectrally equivalent time-dependent double wells and unstable anharmonic oscillators},
author = {Andreas Fring and Rebecca Tenney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05612},
year = {2020}
}
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7 pages, 1 figure