Real eigenvalues of a non-self-adjoint perturbation of the self-adjoint Zakharov-Shabat operator

DOI10.1063/1.4999668zbMATH Open1373.81200arXiv1704.03145OpenAlexW3099140326MaRDI QIDQ4592887FDOQ4592887

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Publication date: 9 November 2017

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

Abstract: We study the eigenvalues of the self-adjoint Zakharov-Shabat operator corresponding to the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the inverse scattering method. Real eigenvalues exist when the square of the potential has a simple well. We derive two types of quantization condition for the eigenvalues by using the exact WKB method, and show that the eigenvalues stay real for a sufficiently small non-self-adjoint perturbation when the potential has some PT-like symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03145

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Inverse scattering problems in quantum theory (81U40)

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