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Supersymmetric Descendants of Self-Adjointly Extended Quantum Mechanical Hamiltonians

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-15 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider the descendants of self-adjointly extended Hamiltonians in supersymmetric quantum mechanics on a half-line, on an interval, and on a punctured line or interval. While there is a 4-parameter family of self-adjointly extended Hamiltonians on a punctured line, only a 3-parameter sub-family has supersymmetric descendants that are themselves self-adjoint. We also address the self-adjointness of an operator related to the supercharge, and point out that only a sub-class of its most general self-adjoint extensions is physical. Besides a general characterization of self-adjoint extensions and their supersymmetric descendants, we explicitly consider concrete examples, including a particle in a box with general boundary conditions, with and without an additional point interaction. We also discuss bulk-boundary resonances and their manifestation in the supersymmetric descendant.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2343,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Descendants of Self-Adjointly Extended Quantum Mechanical Hamiltonians},
  author = {M. H. Al-Hashimi and M. Salman and A. Shalaby and U. -J. Wiese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2343},
  year   = {2015}
}

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31 pages, 10 figures