SUSY quantum mechanics with complex superpotentials and real energy spectra

Jun, 1998
22 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 14 (1999) 2675-2688
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Report number:
  • SPBU-IP-97-24,
  • SPbU-IP-97-24

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Abstract:
We extend the standard intertwining relations used in Supersymmetrical (SUSY) Quantum Mechanics which involve real superpotentials to complex superpotentials. This allows to deal with a large class of non-hermitean Hamiltonians and to study in general the isospectrality between complex potentials. In very specific cases we can construct in a natural way "quasi-complex" potentials which we define as complex potentials having a global property such as to lead to a Hamiltonian with real spectrum. We also obtained a class of complex transparent potentials whose Hamiltonian can be intertwined to a free Hamiltonian. We provide a variety of examples both for the radial problem (half axis) and for the standard one-dimensional problem (the whole axis), including remarks concerning scattering problems.
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