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

DOI10.1063/1.2000207MaRDI QIDQ3438545zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Avinash Khare, Uday P. Sukhatme

Publication date 16 May 2007

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

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

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)

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.

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