PT-symmetry and Schrödinger operators. The double well case

DOI10.1002/MANA.201500075zbMATH Open1337.35103arXiv1502.06102OpenAlexW2964034267MaRDI QIDQ2808131FDOQ2808131

Authors: Nawal Mecherout, Naima Boussekkine, Thierry Ramond, Johannes Sjöstrand 

Publication date: 26 May 2016

Published in: Mathematische Nachrichten (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a class of PT-symmetric semiclassical Schr"odinger operators, which are perturbations of a selfadjoint one. Here, we treat the case where the unperturbed operator has a double-well potential. In the simple well case, two of the authors have proved in cite{BoMe14} that, when the potential is analytic, the eigenvalues stay real for a perturbation of size O(1). We show here, in the double-well case, that the eigenvalues stay real only for exponentially small perturbations, then bifurcate into the complex domain when the perturbation increases and we get precise asymptotic expansions. The proof uses complex WKB-analysis, leading to a fairly explicit quantization condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.06102

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalues\(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetrycomplex WKB analysisquantization conditonSchrödinger operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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• PT symmetry and Weyl asymptotics
• Real eigenvalues of a non-self-adjoint perturbation of the self-adjoint Zakharov-Shabat operator
• Level crossings in a \(PT\)-symmetric double well
• Complex eigenvalue splitting for the Dirac operator
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• Matplotlib

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