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arXiv:quant-ph/0108085

Some Comments On Bound State Eigenvalues of PT-Symmetric Potentials

Banerjee, S., Rajkumar Roychoudhury

Published Aug 18, 2001• 0 citations
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Abstract

Using purely physical arguments it is claimed that for ID Schrodinger operators with complex PT- Symmatric potentials having a purely real attractive potential well and a purely imaginary repulsive part,bound state eigenvalues will be discrete and real.This has been illustrated with several potentials possessing similar properties.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0108085

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