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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Position-dependent effective mass Dirac equations withPT-symmetric and non-PT-symmetric potentials

Chun‐Sheng Jia, ALVARO DE SOUZA DUTRA

Published Sep 5, 2006• 46 citations
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Abstract

We present a new procedure to construct the one-dimensional non-Hermitian imaginary potential with a real energy spectrum in the context of the position-dependent effective mass Dirac equation with the vector-coupling scheme in 1+1 dimensions. In the first example, we consider a case for which the mass distribution combines linear and inversely linear forms, the Dirac problem with a PT -symmetric potential is mapped into the exactly solvable Schrödinger-like equation problem with the isotonic oscillator by using the local scaling of the wavefunction. In the second example, we take a mass distribution with smooth step shape, the Dirac problem with a non- PT -symmetric imaginary potential is mapped into the exactly solvable Schrödinger-like equation problem with the Rosen–Morse potential. The real relativistic energy levels and corresponding wavefunctions for the bound states are obtained in terms of the supersymmetric quantum mechanics approach and the function analysis method.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/39/38/013

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