PT-invariant periodic potentials with a finite number of band gaps

DOI10.1063/1.2000207zbMATH Open1110.81158arXivmath-ph/0505027OpenAlexW2024459968MaRDI QIDQ3438545FDOQ3438545

Authors: Avinash Khare, Uday P. Sukhatme 

Publication date: 16 May 2007

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

Abstract: We obtain the band edge eigenstates and the mid-band states for the complex, PT-invariant generalized associated Lam'e potentials $V^{PT}(x)=-a(a+1)ms{n}^2(y,m)-b(b+1)ms{n}^2(y+K(m),m)-f(f+1)ms{n}^2(y+K(m)+i{K}^{\prime }(m),m)-g(g+1)ms{n}^2(y+i{K}^{\prime }(m),m)$, where $$, and there are four parameters $a,b,f,g$. This work is a substantial generalization of previous work with the associated Lam'e potentials $V(x)=a(a+1)ms{n}^2(x,m)+b(b+1)ms{n}^2(x+K(m),m)$ and their corresponding PT-invariant counterparts $$, both of which involving just two parameters $a,b$. We show that for many integer values of $a,b,f,g$, the PT-invariant potentials $V^{PT}(x)$ are periodic problems with a finite number of band gaps. Further, usingsupersymmetry, we construct several additional, new, complex, PT-invariant, periodic potentials with a finite number of band gaps. We also point out the intimate connection between the above generalized associated Lam'e potential problem and Heun's differential equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0505027

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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) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15)

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