BARC/PUB/2015/0554

 
 

Accidental crossings of eigenvalues in the one-dimensional complex PT-symmetric Scarf-II potential

 
     
 
Author(s)

Ahmed, Z.; Ghosh, D.; Nathan, J. A.; Parkar, G.
(NPD;RPDD)

Source

Physics Letters-A, 2015. Vol. 379: pp. 2424-2429

ABSTRACT

So far, the well known two branches of real discrete spectrum of complex PT-symmetric Scarf-II  potential are kept isolated. Here, we suggest that these two need to be brought together as doublets: En±(λ) with n=0, 1,2.... Then if strength (λ) of the imaginary part of the potential is varied smoothly some pairs of real eigenvalue curves can intersect and cross each other at λ =λ ; this is unlike one-dimensional Hermitian potentials. However, we show that the corresponding eigenstates at λ =λ∗ are identical or linearly dependent denying degeneracy in one dimension, once again. Other pairs of eigenvalue curves coalesce to complex-conjugate pairs completing the scenario of spontaneous breaking of PT-symmetry at λ = λc. To re-emphasize, sharply at λ = λ and λc, two real eigenvalues coincide, nevertheless their corresponding eigenfunctions become identical or linearly dependent and the Hamiltonian looses diagonalizability. 

 
 
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