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SUSY Quantum Mechanics with Complex Superpotentials and Real Energy Spectra

Quantum Physics 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems solv-int

Abstract

We extend the standard intertwining relations used in Supersymmetrical (SUSY) Quantum Mechanics which involve real superpotentials to complex superpotentials. This allows to deal with a large class of non-hermitean Hamiltonians and to study in general the isospectrality between complex potentials. In very specific cases we can construct in a natural way "quasi-complex" potentials which we define as complex potentials having a global property such as to lead to a Hamiltonian with real spectrum. We also obtained a class of complex transparent potentials whose Hamiltonian can be intertwined to a free Hamiltonian. We provide a variety of examples both for the radial problem (half axis) and for the standard one-dimensional problem (the whole axis), including remarks concerning scattering problems.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9806019,
  title  = {SUSY Quantum Mechanics with Complex Superpotentials and Real Energy Spectra},
  author = {A. A. Andrianov and F. Cannata and J. -P. Dedonder and M. V. Ioffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9806019},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages, Latex

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