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We study a wide class of solvable PT symmetric potentials in order to identify conditions under which these potentials have regular solutions with complex energy. Besides confirming previous findings for two potentials, most of our results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Levai , M. Znojil

A new form to construct complex superpotentials that produce real energy spectra in supersymmetric quantum mechanics is presented. This is based on the relation between the nonlinear Ermakov equation and a second order differential equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Oscar Rosas-Ortiz , Octavio Castanos , Dieter Schuch

Open quantum systems can display periodic dynamics at the classical level either due to external periodic modulations or to self-pulsing phenomena typically following a Hopf bifurcation. In both cases, the quantum fluctuations around…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 C. Navarrete-Benlloch , R. Garcés , N. Mohseni , G. J. de Valcárcel

Classical open systems with balanced gain and loss, i.e. parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric systems, have attracted tremendous attention over the past decade. Their exotic properties arise from exceptional point (EP) degeneracies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Zachary A. Cochran , Avadh Saxena , Yogesh N. Joglekar

In this paper we find explicit conditions on the periodic PT-symmetric complex-valued potential q for which the number of gaps in the real part of the spectrum of the one-dimensional Schrodinger operator L(q) is finite.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-24 O. A. Veliev

We show that and how the Coulomb potential can be regularized and solved exactly at the imaginary couplings. The new spectrum of energies is real and bounded as expected, but its explicit form proves totally different from the usual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Znojil , G. Levai

$PT$ symmetric quantum mechanics for a particle trapped by the generalized non-Hermitian harmonic oscillator potential is studied. It is shown that energy and the expectation value of the position operator $x$ can not be real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Yuce , A. Kurt , A. Kucukaslan

The Parity-Time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric potentials are derived by non-Hermitian supersymmetric quantum mechanics for square well and barrier. These $\mathcal{PT}$-supersymmetric square well and barrier. The partners have complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Taha Koohrokhi

One construction of exactly-solvable potentials for Fokker-Planck equation is considered based on supersymmetric quantum mechanics approach.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Krylov

Hermitian Hamiltonians with time-periodic coefficients can be analyzed via Floquet theory, and have been extensively used for engineering Floquet Hamiltonians in standard quantum simulators. Generalized to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Julia Cen , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Avadh Saxena

We propose an implementation of a method based on Fourier analysis to obtain the Floquet characteristic exponents for periodic homogeneous linear systems, which shows a high precision. This implementation uses a variational principle to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Manuel Gadella , Luis Pedro Lara

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians provide a simple picture for analyzing systems with natural or induced gain and loss; however, in general, such Hamiltonians feature complex energies and a corresponding non-orthonormal eigenbasis. Provided that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrew K. Harter , Naomichi Hatano

It is known that multidimensional complex potentials obeying $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry may possess all real spectra and continuous families of solitons. Recently it was shown that for multi-dimensional systems these features can persist when…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-04 J. D'Ambroise , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider a Parity-time (PT) invariant non-Hermitian quasi-exactly solvable (QES) potential which exhibits PT phase transition. We numerically study this potential in a complex plane classically to demonstrate different quantum effects.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Bhabani Prasad Mandal , Sushant S. Mahajan

We introduce the one-dimensional PT-symmetric Schrodinger equation, with complex potentials in the form of the canonical superoscillatory and suboscillatory functions known in quantum mechanics and optics. While the suboscillatory-like…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yaniv Eliezer , Alon Bahabad , Boris A. Malomed

Discrete PT-symmetric square wells are studied. Their wave functions are found proportional to classical Tshebyshev polynomials of complex argument. The compact secular equations for energies are derived giving the real spectra in certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Miloslav Znojil

For the one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation with a complex potential, it is shown that if this potential is not parity-time (PT) symmetric, then no continuous families of solitons can bifurcate out from linear guided modes, even…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-17 Jianke Yang

We investigate the correspondence between classical and quantum mechanics for periodically time dependent Hamiltonian systems, using the example of a periodically forced particle in a one-dimensional triangular well potential. In…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-01 Michael E. Flatté , Martin Holthaus

We introduce a one-dimensional system combining the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric complex periodic potential and the $\chi ^{(2)}$ (second-harmonic-generating) nonlinearity. The imaginary part of the potential, which represents spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-08-23 F. C. Moreira , V. V Konotop , B. A. Malomed

In the context of the Floquet theory, using a variation of parameter argument, we show that the logarithm of the monodromy of a real periodic Lie system with appropriate properties admits a splitting into two parts, called dynamic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 R. Flores-Espinoza , Javier de Lucas , Yurii Vorobjev