Winding in non-Hermitian systems

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA9FAFzbMATH Open1387.81218arXiv1704.02028OpenAlexW2606294180MaRDI QIDQ4606179FDOQ4606179

Authors: Stella T. Schindler, Carl M. Bender 

Publication date: 1 March 2018

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

Abstract: This paper extends the property of interlacing of the zeros of eigenfunctions in Hermitian systems to the topological property of winding number in non-Hermitian systems. Just as the number of nodes of each eigenfunction in a self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problem are well-ordered, so too are the winding numbers of each eigenfunction of Hermitian and of unbroken PT-symmetric potentials. Varying a system back and forth past an exceptional point changes the windings of its eigenfunctions in a specific manner. Nonlinear, higher-dimensional, and general non-Hermitian systems also exhibit manifestations of these characteristics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02028

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zbMATH Keywords

windingPT symmetryinterlacing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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