Operator-based approach to PT-symmetric problems on a wedge-shaped contour

DOI10.1007/S40509-019-00197-3MaRDI QIDQ2329972zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Florian Leben, Carsten Trunk

Publication date 18 October 2019

Published in Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08025

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesspectrumlimit pointnon-Hermitian Hamiltonianlimit circle\({\mathcal{P}}{\mathcal{T}}\) symmetric operatorStokes wedges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: We consider a second-order differential equation ${\displaystyle }$ -y(z)-(iz)^{N+2}y(z)=lambda y(z), quad zin Gamma ${\displaystyle }$ with an eigenvalue parameter $lambdainmathbbC$. In $mathcalPT$ quantum mechanics $z$ runs through a complex contour $GammasubsetmathbbC$, which is in general not the real line nor a real half-line. Via a parametrization we map the problem back to the real line and obtain two differential equations on $[0,infty)$ and on $(-infty,0].$ They are coupled in zero by boundary conditions and their potentials are not real-valued. The main result is a classification of this problem along the well-known limit-point/ limit-circle scheme for complex potentials introduced by A.R. Sims 60 years ago. Moreover, we associate operators to the two half-line problems and to the full axis problem and study their spectra.

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