Supersymmetric quantum mechanics: engineered hierarchies of integrable potentials and related orthogonal polynomials

DOI10.1063/1.4819497zbMATH Open1312.81088OpenAlexW3124451521MaRDI QIDQ5409669FDOQ5409669

Authors Daddy Balondo Iyela, Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou, Jan Govaerts

Publication date 14 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0182

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal polynomialsharmonic oscillatorsupersymmetric quantum mechanicssolvable potentialsquantum hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Connections of hypergeometric functions with groups and algebras, and related topics (33C80)

Abstract: Within the context of Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and its related hierarchies of integrable quantum Hamiltonians and potentials, a general programme is outlined and applied to its first two simplest illustrations. Going beyond the usual restriction of shape invariance for intertwined potentials, it is suggested to require a similar relation for Hamiltonians in the hierarchy separated by an arbitrary number of levels, N. By requiring further that these two Hamiltonians be in fact identical up to an overall shift in energy, a periodic structure is installed in the hierarchy of quantum systems which should allow for its solution. Specific classes of orthogonal polynomials characteristic of such periodic hierarchies are thereby generated, while the methods of Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics then lead to generalised Rodrigues formulae and recursion relations for such polynomials. The approach also offers the practical prospect of quantum modelling through the engineering of quantum potentials from experimental energy spectra. In this paper these ideas are presented and solved explicitly for the cases N=1 and N=2. The latter case is related to the generalised Laguerre polynomials, for which indeed new results are thereby obtained. At the same time new classes of integrable quantum potentials which generalise that of the harmonic oscillator and which are characterised by two arbitrary energy gaps are identified, for which a complete solution is achieved algebraically.

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