Quantum counterpart of spontaneously broken classical PT symmetry

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/1/015301zbMATH Open1205.81076arXiv1008.0782OpenAlexW3122825745MaRDI QIDQ3071003FDOQ3071003

Authors: Carl M. Bender, Hugh F. Jones 

Publication date: 28 January 2011

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

Abstract: The classical trajectories of a particle governed by the PT-symmetric Hamiltonian $H=p^2+x^2(ix{)}^{e}psilon$ ($epsilongeq0$) have been studied in depth. It is known that almost all trajectories that begin at a classical turning point oscillate periodically between this turning point and the corresponding PT-symmetric turning point. It is also known that there are regions in $epsilon$ for which the periods of these orbits vary rapidly as functions of $epsilon$ and that in these regions there are isolated values of $epsilon$ for which the classical trajectories exhibit spontaneously broken PT symmetry. The current paper examines the corresponding quantum-mechanical systems. The eigenvalues of these quantum systems exhibit characteristic behaviors that are correlated with those of the associated classical system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0782

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

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