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arXiv:1505.05197 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

New supersymmetry-generated complex potentials with real spectra

Óscar Rosas-Ortiz, Octavio Castaños, Dieter Schuch

Published Oct 12, 2015• 45 citations
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Abstract

A new form to construct complex superpotentials that produce real energy spectra in supersymmetric quantum mechanics is presented. This is based on the relation between the nonlinear Ermakov equation and a second order differential equation of the Schrödinger type. The superpotentials so constructed are characterized by the Ermakov parameters in such a way that they are always complex-valued and lead to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with real spectra, whose eigenfunctions form a bi-orthogonal system. As applications we present new complex supersymmetric partners of the free particle that are P T -symmetric and can be either periodic or regular (of the Pöschl–Teller form). A new family of complex oscillators with real frequencies that have the energies of the harmonic oscillator plus an additional real eigenvalue is introduced.

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/48/44/445302

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