Competing PT potentials and the re-entrant PT-symmetric phase: a particle in a box

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/40/402001MaRDI QIDQ3168476zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yogesh N. Joglekar, Bijan Bagchi

Publication date 31 October 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3310

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: We investigate the effects of competition between two complex, $mathcalPT$-symmetric potentials on the $mathcalPT$-symmetric phase of a "particle in a box". These potentials, given by $V_Z(x)=iZmathrmsign(x)$ and $V_{x}i(x)=ixi[delta(x-a)-delta(x+a)]$, represent long-range and localized gain/loss regions respectively. We obtain the $mathcalPT$-symmetric phase in the $(Z,xi)$ plane, and find that for locations $pma$ near the edge of the box, the $mathcalPT$-symmetric phase is strengthened by additional losses to the loss region. We also predict that a broken $mathcalPT$-symmetry will be restored by increasing the strength $xi$ of the localized potential. By comparing the results for this problem and its lattice counterpart, we show that a robust $mathcalPT$-symmetric phase in the continuum is consistent with the fragile phase on the lattice. Our results demonstrate that systems with multiple, $mathcalPT$-symmetric potentials show unique, unexpected properties.

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