Complex square well - a new exactly solvable quantum mechanical model

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/39/305MaRDI QIDQ4947800zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stefan Boettcher, Van M. Savage, Carl M. Bender, Hugh F. Jones

Publication date 25 April 2000

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906057

zbMATH Keywords

square-well potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15)

Abstract: Recently, a class of PT-invariant quantum mechanical models described by the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $H=p^2+x^2(ix{)}^{e}psilon$ was studied. It was found that the energy levels for this theory are real for all $epsilongeq0$. Here, the limit as $epsilonoinfty$ is examined. It is shown that in this limit, the theory becomes exactly solvable. A generalization of this Hamiltonian, $H=p^2+x^{2M}(ix{)}^{e}psilon$ (M=1,2,3,...) is also studied, and this PT-symmetric Hamiltonian becomes exactly solvable in the large-epsilon limit as well. In effect, what is obtained in each case is a complex analog of the Hamiltonian for the square well potential. Expansions about the large-epsilon limit are obtained.

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