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arXiv:quant-ph/0502098 · AIP conference proceedings

Higher-order supersymmetric quantum mechanics

David J. Fernández C.

Published Jan 1, 2004• 110 citations
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Abstract

We review the higher‐order supersymmetric quantum mechanics (H‐SUSY QM), which involves differential intertwining operators of order greater than one. The iterations of first‐order SUSY transformations are used to derive in a simple way the higher‐order case. The second order technique is addressed directly, and through this approach unexpected possibilities for designing spectra are uncovered. The formalism is applied to the harmonic oscillator: the corresponding H‐SUSY partner Hamiltonians are ruled by polynomial Heisenberg algebras which allow a straight construction of the coherent states.

DOI
10.1063/1.1853203

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We review the higher‐order supersymmetric quantum mechanics (H‐SUSY QM), which involves differential intertwining operators of order greater than one. The iterations of first‐order SUSY transformations are used to derive in a simple way the higher‐order case. The second order technique is addressed directly, and through this approach unexpected possibilities for designing spectra are uncovered. The formalism is applied to the harmonic oscillator: the corresponding H‐SUSY partner Hamiltonians are ruled by polynomial Heisenberg algebras which allow a straight construction of the coherent states.
We generalize the standard first-order intertwining relationship of supersymmetric quantum mechanics in order to include simultaneous scaling transformations in both the original Hamiltonian and the intertwining operator. It is argued that in this way one can generate potentials with more interesting spectra than those obtained by means of the standard first-order intertwining technique and, as an outcome, a simple engineering procedure is presented. The harmonic oscillator potential is used in order to illustrate the previous statements. Moreover, a matrix representation of the scaled intertwining relationship is sketched up allowing for higher-dimensional generalizations in the case of separable potentials
The development of supersymmetric (SUSY) quantum mechanics has shown that some of the insights based on the algebraic properties of ladder operators related to the quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator (QMHO) carry over to the study of more general systems. At this level of generality, pairs of eigenfunctions of so-called partner Hamiltonians are transformed into each other, but the entire spectrum of any one of them cannot be deduced from this intertwining relationship in general – except in special cases. In this paper, we present a more general structure that provides all eigenvalues for a class of Hamiltonians that do not factor into a pair of operators satisfying canonical commutation relations. Instead of a pair of partner Hamiltonians, we consider two pairs that differ by an overall shift in their spectrum. This is called coupled supersymmetry. In that case, we also develop coherent states and present some uncertainty principles which generalise the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Coupled SUSY is explicitly realised by an infinite family of differential operators which admit orthonormal bases of eigenfunctions of generalised harmonic oscillators.
A simple way to construct exactly solvable Hamiltonians whose spectra contain two equidistant ladders, one finite and another infinite, appears when applying supersymmetric quantum mechanics to the harmonic oscillator. Some of those supersymmetric partners have third order differential ladder operators, although the order of the transformation is higher than one. In this work the linearized coherent states for these specific Hamiltonians are studied. To each SUSY partner Hamiltonian corresponds two families of linearized coherent states: one inside the subspace associated with the isospectral part of the spectrum and another one in the finite subspace generated by the states inserted through the SUSY technique.
We review SUSY in non-relativistic quantum mechanics as a powerful tool for studying one dimensional potentials and discuss some applications. The Dirac operatorial factorization method for the harmonic oscillator in QM is generalized to a broader scope. A Schr¨odinger second order operator can be factorized into two first-order ones by solving a Riccati equation and determining the corresponding superpotential. We apply the technique to square well, P¨oschl-Teller and finite barrier potentials, analyzing the resulting energy spectra and the transmission and reflection coefficients. Both discrete and continuous energy spectrum cases are discussed.