Bicomplex Harmonic and Isotonic Oscillators: The Excited States

Vincent P. Gutschick, Michael Martin Nieto, L. M. Simmons

Rainer Dick

Bijan Kumar Bagchi, A. Banerjee

We investigate bicomplex Hamiltonian systems in the framework of an analogous version of the Schrödinger equation. Since in such a setting three different types of conjugates of bicomplex numbers appear, each is found to define, in a natural way, a separate class of time reversal operator. However, the induced parity ( )-time ( )-symmetric models turn out to be mutually incompatible, except for two of them which could be chosen uniquely. The latter models are then explored by working within an extended phase space. Applications to the problems of harmonic oscillator, inverted oscillator and isotonic oscillator are considered and many new interesting properties are uncovered for the new types of symmetries.

Raphaël Gervais Lavoie, ‎Louis Marchildon, Dominic Rochon +4 more

Bicomplex numbers are pairs of complex numbers with a multiplication law that makes them a commutative ring. The problem of the quantum harmonic oscillator is investigated in the framework of bicomplex numbers. Starting with the commutator of the bicomplex position and momentum operators, we find eigenvalues and eigenkets of the bicomplex harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian. Coordinate‐basis eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian are then obtained in terms of hyperbolic Hermite polynomials, and some of them are graphically illustrated. These eigenfunctions form a basis of an infinite‐dimensional module over bicomplex numbers, and this module can be given the structure of a bicomplex Hilbert space.

Rainer Dick

Rainer Dick