Finite lifetime eigenfunctions of coupled systems of harmonic oscillators

DOI10.1007/S11005-004-4291-6MaRDI QIDQ703014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lyonell Boulton, Stefania A. M. Marcantognini, María Dolores Morán

Publication date 19 January 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403187

zbMATH Keywords

coupled systems of harmonic oscillatorseigenfunctionvector-valued Hermite basis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenfunctions, eigenfunction expansions, completeness of eigenfunctions of ordinary differential operators (34L10) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We find a Hermite-type basis for which the eigenvalue problem associated to the operator $H_{A,B}:=B(-partia{l}_x^2)+A{x}^2$ acting on $$ becomes a three-terms recurrence. Here $A$ and $B$ are two constant positive definite matrices with no other restriction. Our main result provides an explicit characterization of the eigenvectors of $H_{A,B}$ that lie in the span of the first four elements of this basis when $ABot=BA$.

Review text

The authors study the eigenvalue problem for the operator \(H_{A,B}=-\partial^{2}_{x} B + A x^{2}\) acting in \(L^{2}(\mathbb{R};\mathbb{C}^{2})\), where \(A\) and \(B\) are positive definite noncommuting matrices. In a canonical form, all such pairs of matrices can be represented by means of four parameters. The main result of the paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions on these parameters in order that \(H_{A,B}\) has an eigenfunction which lies in the linear span of the first four elements of a vector-valued Hermite-type basis.

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