English

A new solvable complex PT-symmetric potential

Quantum Physics 2015-06-11 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We propose a new solvable one-dimensional complex PT-symmetric potential as V(x)=ig \mboxsgn(x) 1exp(2x/a)V(x)= ig~ \mbox{sgn}(x)~ |1-\exp(2|x|/a)| and study the spectrum of H=d2/dx2+V(x)H=-d^2/dx^2+V(x). For smaller values of a,g<1a,g <1, there is a finite number of real discrete eigenvalues. As aa and gg increase, there exist exceptional points (EPs), gng_n (for fixed values of aa) causing a scarcity of real discrete eigenvalues, but there exists at least one. We also show these real discrete eigenvalues as poles of reflection coefficient. We find that the energy-eigenstates ψn(x)\psi_n(x) satisfy (1): PTψn(x)=1ψn(x)\psi_n(x)=1 \psi_n(x) and (2): PTψEn(x)=ψEn(x)\psi_{E_n}(x)=\psi_{E^*_n}(x), for real and complex energy eigenvalues, respectively.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1502.04838,
  title  = {A new solvable complex PT-symmetric potential},
  author = {Zafar Ahmed and Dona Ghosh and Joseph Amal Nathan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04838},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, 5 Figures, Ref.[21] newly added, Appendix removed

R2 v1 2026-06-22T08:31:16.282Z