Generating complex potentials with real eigenvalues in supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Feb, 200116 pages
Published in:
- Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 16 (2001) 2859-2872
e-Print:
- quant-ph/0102093 [quant-ph]
Report number:
- ULB-229-CQ-00-7,
- ULB/229/CQ/00/7
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Abstract:
In the framework of SUSYQM extended to deal with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, we analyze three sets of complex potentials with real spectra, recently derived by a potential algebraic approach based upon the complex Lie algebra sl(2, C). This extends to the complex domain the well-known relationship between SUSYQM and potential algebras for Hermitian Hamiltonians, resulting from their common link with the factorization method and Darboux transformations. In the same framework, we also generate for the first time a pair of elliptic partner potentials of Weierstrass type, one of them being real and the other imaginary and PT symmetric. The latter turns out to be quasiexactly solvable with one known eigenvalue corresponding to a bound state. When the Weierstrass function degenerates to a hyperbolic one, the imaginary potential becomes PT non-symmetric and its known eigenvalue corresponds to an unbound state.Note:
- 20 pages, Latex 2e + amssym + graphics, 2 figures, accepted in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
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