How to test for diagonalizability: the discretized \textbf{PT}-invariant square-well potential

DOI10.1007/S10582-005-0126-7zbMATH Open1465.81031arXivquant-ph/0507202OpenAlexW2115144393MaRDI QIDQ5000497FDOQ5000497

Authors: Stefan Weigert 

Publication date: 14 July 2021

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

Abstract: Given a non-hermitean matrix M, the structure of its minimal polynomial encodes whether M is diagonalizable or not. This note will explain how to determine the minimal polynomial of a matrix without going through its characteristic polynomial. The approach is applied to a quantum mechanical particle moving in a square well under the influence of a piece-wise constant PT-symmetric potential. Upon discretizing the configuration space, the system is decribed by a matrix of dimension three. It turns out not to be diagonalizable for a critical strength of the interaction, also indicated by the transition of two real into a pair of complex energy eigenvalues. The systems develops a three-fold degenerate eigenvalue, and two of the three eigenfunctions disappear at this exceptional point, giving a difference between the algebraic and geometric multiplicity of the eigenvalue equal to two.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0507202

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zbMATH Keywords

PT-symmetrydiagonalizability, discretized square-well potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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