Scattering by infinitely rising one-dimensional potentials

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.09.026MaRDI QIDQ528248zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. M. Ferreira, J. Sesma

Publication date 12 May 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08818

zbMATH Keywords

resonanceone-dimensional scattering\(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetryinfinitely rising potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary eigenvalue problems for ordinary differential equations (34B09) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: Infinitely rising one-dimensional potentials constitute impenetrable barriers which reflect totally any incident wave. However, the scattering by such kind of potentials is not structureless: resonances may occur for certain values of the energy. Here we consider the problem of scattering by the members of a family of potentials $V_a(x)=-msgn(x),|x{|}^a$, where sgn represents the sign function and $a$ is a positive rational number. The scattering function and the phase shifts are obtained from global solutions of the Schr"odinger equation. For the determination of the Gamow states, associated to resonances, we exploit their close relation with the eigenvalues of the $mathcalPT$-symmetric Hamiltonians with potentials $V_a^{mathcalPT}(x)=-mi,msgn(x),|x{|}^a$. Calculation of the time delay in the scattering at real energies is used to characterize the resonances. As an additional result, the breakdown of the $mathcalPT$-symmetry of the family of potentials $V_a^{mathcalPT}$ for $a<3$ may be conjectured.

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