Three solvable matrix models of a quantum catastrophe

DOI10.1007/S10773-014-2085-XMaRDI QIDQ458508zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Géza Lévai, František Ruzicka, Miloslav Znojil

Publication date 8 October 2014

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0723

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal{PT}\) symmetryexceptional-point localizationfinite-dimensional non-Hermitian Hamiltoniansmethods of computer algebraquantum theoryquantum theory of catastrophes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12)

Abstract: Three classes of finite-dimensional models of quantum systems exhibiting spectral degeneracies called quantum catastrophes are described in detail. Computer-assisted symbolic manipulation techniques are shown unexpectedly efficient for the purpose.

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