Study of classical mechanical systems with complex potentials

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2010.12.023MaRDI QIDQ430684zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. Sinha, D. Dutta, P. Roy

Publication date 26 June 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0909

zbMATH Keywords

classical trajectoriesclosed orbitsopen orbitsphase space trajectoriesPT symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We apply the factorization technique developed by Kuru and Negro [Ann. Phys. 323 (2008) 413] to study complex classical systems. As an illustration we apply the technique to study the classical analogue of the exactly solvable PT symmetric Scarf II model, which exhibits the interesting phenomenon of spontaneous breakdown of PT symmetry at some critical point. As the parameters are tuned such that energy switches from real to complex conjugate pairs, the corresponding classical trajectories display a distinct characteristic feature - the closed orbits become open ones.

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