The interplay of supersymmetry and PT symmetry in quantum mechanics: a case study for the Scarf II potential

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/41/311zbMATH Open1044.81578arXivquant-ph/0206013OpenAlexW2000848108MaRDI QIDQ4469898FDOQ4469898

Authors: Géza Lévai, Miloslav Znojil 

Publication date: 22 June 2004

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

Abstract: Motivated by the duality of normalizable states and the presence of the quasi-parity quantum number q=+/-1 in PT symmetric (non-Hermitian) quantum mechanical potential models, the relation of PT symmetry and supersymmetry (SUSY) is studied. As an illustrative example the PT invariant version of the Scarf II potential is presented, and it is shown that the "bosonic" Hamiltonian has two different "fermionic" SUSY partner Hamiltonians (potentials) generated from the ground-state solutions with q=1 and q=-1. It is shown that the "fermionic" potentials cease to be PT invariant when the PT symmetry of the "bosonic" potential is spontaneously broken. A modified PT symmetry inspired SUSY construction is also discussed, in which the SUSY charge operators contain the antilinear operator T. It is shown that in this scheme the "fermionic" Hamitonians are just the complex conjugate of the original "fermionic" Hamiltonians, and thus possess the same energy eigenvalues.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206013

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15)

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