Supersymmetry without hermiticity within PT symmetric quantum mechanics

Jun, 2000
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 483 (2000) 284-289
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Abstract:
A new model of supersymmetry between bosons and fermions is proposed. Its representation space is spanned by states with PT symmetry and real energies but the inter-related partner Hamiltonians themselves remain complex and non-Hermitian. The formalism admits vanishing Witten index.
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  • Supersymmetry
  • PT symmetry
  • Non-Hermitian representations of sl(1/1)
  • Complex partner Hamiltonians with real spectra
  • [formula omitted] symmetry
  • supersymmetry: transformation
  • supersymmetry: representation