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View SchemaNew Quasi-Exactly Solvable Sextic Polynomial Potentials
| Authors | Carl M. Bender, Maria Monou |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0501053 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0501053 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/38/10/009 |
Abstract
A Hamiltonian is said to be quasi-exactly solvable (QES) if some of the energy levels and the corresponding eigenfunctions can be calculated exactly and in closed form. An entirely new class of QES Hamiltonians having sextic polynomial potentials is constructed. These new Hamiltonians are different from the sextic QES Hamiltonians in the literature because their eigenfunctions obey PT-symmetric rather than Hermitian boundary conditions. These new Hamiltonians present a novel problem that is not encountered when the Hamiltonian is Hermitian: It is necessary to distinguish between the parametric region of unbroken PT symmetry, in which all of the eigenvalues are real, and the region of broken PT symmetry, in which some of the eigenvalues are complex. The precise location of the boundary between these two regions is determined numerically using extrapolation techniques and analytically using WKB analysis.
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