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Eigenvalue and Eigenfunction for the $PT$-symmetric Potential $V = - (ix)^N$

Mathematical Physics 2017-02-28 v2 math.MP

Abstract

The real energy spectrum from the PTPT-symmetric Hamiltonian H=p2(ix)NH = p^2 - (ix)^N with xCx\in\mathbb{C} was examined within one pair of Stokes wedges in 1998 by Bender and Boettcher. For this Hamiltonian we discuss the following three questions. First, since their paper used a Runge-Kutta method to integrate along a path at the center of the Stokes wedges to calculate eigenvalues EE with high accuracy, we wonder if the same eigenvalues can be obtained if integrate along some other paths in different shapes. Second, what the corresponding eigenfunctions look like? Should the eigenfunctions be independent from the shapes of path or not? Third, since for large NN the Hamiltonian contains many pairs of Stokes wedges symmetric with respect to the imaginary axis of xx, thus multiple families of real energy spectrum can be obtained. What do they look like? Any relation among them?

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@article{arxiv.1701.07180,
  title  = {Eigenvalue and Eigenfunction for the $PT$-symmetric Potential $V = - (ix)^N$},
  author = {Cheng Tang and Andrei Frolov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.07180},
  year   = {2017}
}

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37 pages, 30 figures

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