Generalized unitarity and reciprocity relations for PT-symmetric scattering potentials

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/50/505303MaRDI QIDQ2939852zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Mostafazadeh

Publication date 23 January 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4212

zbMATH Keywords

complex potentialPT-symmetryreciprocityscatteringspectral singularityunitarity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U10)

Abstract: We derive certain identities satisfied by the left/right-reflection and transmission amplitudes, $R^{l/r}(k)$ and $T(k)$, of general $calPT$-symmetric scattering potentials. We use these identities to give a general proof of the relations, $|T(-k)|=|T(k)|$ and $|R^r(-k)|=|R^l(k)|$, conjectured in [Z. Ahmed, J. Phys. A 45 (2012) 032004], establish the generalized unitarity relation: $R^{l/r}(k)R^{l/r}(-k)+|T(k){|}^2=1$, and show that it is a common property of both real and complex $calPT$-symmetric potentials. The same holds for $T(-k)=T(k{)}^{\ast }$ and $|R^r(-k)|=|R^l(k)|$.

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