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Supersymmetry of $\mathcal{PT}$- symmetric tridiagonal Hamiltonians

Quantum Physics 2021-12-09 v4

Abstract

We extend the study of supersymmetric tridiagonal Hamiltonians to the case of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with real or complex conjugate eigenvalues. We find the relation between matrix elements of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian HH and its supersymmetric partner H+H^{+} in a given basis. Moreover, the orthogonal polynomials in the eigenstate expansion problem attached to H+H^{+} can be recovered from those polynomials arising from the same problem for HH with the help of kernel polynomials. Besides its generality, the developed formalism in this work is a natural home for using the numerically powerful Gauss quadrature techniques in probing the nature of some physical quantities such as the energy spectrum of PT\mathcal{PT}-symmetric complex potentials. Finally, we solve the shifted PT\mathcal{PT}-symmetric Morse oscillator exactly in the tridiagonal representation.

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@article{arxiv.2006.09544,
  title  = {Supersymmetry of $\mathcal{PT}$- symmetric tridiagonal Hamiltonians},
  author = {Mohammad Walid AlMasri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.09544},
  year   = {2021}
}

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23 pages, 3 figures